Project 2

Treasure Chest Model | February 14, 2019

Original Treasure Chest

The treasure chest I chose was from Reddit's Woodworking thread.

You can find the original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/alr3jt/walnut_treasure_chest/

Modeled Treasure Chest

I recreated the treasure chest as closely as I could, but chose to simplify the lock and the handles due to feasibility. I ended up spending multiple days on the treasure inside, so I can't say that time was saved in the end.

Shaded View

Wireframe View

Textures

This project required a great deal of textures. The main ones are obvious: wood, brass, marble. Both the wood and brass had to be recolored to more closely match the reference image. The more subtle textures are the leather of the chest trim, the glass of the coffee cup (this was the original lambert shader, made transparent), the top of the latte, and the gradient of the latte shown through the cup. I combined a solid color gradient and an image of coffee foam to create the latte. All images can be clicked on to navigate to their source site.

Original Wood Texture

Recolored Wood Texture

Original Brass Texture

Recolored Brass Texture

Marble

Leather

Latte Art

Latte Foam

Gradient with Foam (my own creation)

Additional Images and Ramblings

The two parts of this project that swallowed my time were applying textures to beveled edges and creating the latte. Each beveled edge of the chest and leather required its own texture application with subsequent UV mapping adjustments to create something that looked even close to realistic. This means I individually mapped and adjusted 144 surfaces, not counting the latte or the marble turntable. Creating the latte took quite awhile as I wanted to get a realistic look to the entire beverage, and when I chose to make my coffee cup out of glass, that meant I had to texture all the coffee, instead of just the top. I downloaded a model of a coffee cup (which I can no longer find the link to) and adjusted it to look like my personal favorite, pictured to the right, a double-walled glass coffee cup with handle, made by Bodum.

Extra information:

The coffee cup is sitting on a built in shelf
I turned off the default lighting and used an ambient light and an area light to bring out the shine of the metal finishings and glass cup
My lock and handles are for decorative purposes only, as both are unfortunately nonfunctional

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