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Archive for August, 2007

Mac PRO case & studio lightning – 3D model

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Max 7 + vray 1.5RC3 materials and setup. Render output is almost excalty the posted images (a mimic of the apple commercial) Case is high poly (10k) but buttons and switches are lowpoly, and easily replacable if you want to add detail. (3DS also included, but you may have to remap the textures)

Posted: August 30th, 2007 under freebie.
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Material case study – Mac PRO

As a small case study, i modelled & rendered this Mac pro in approx 5 hours of work. The puprose was to mimic the aluminium case material and the studio setup used in Apple commercial stills.

Originally, it was tought to be lowpoly, but I’ve finally added many edges in the curves to catch the light as closely as possible. The buttons, fan grid and power plug remains lowpoly, but the mesh is easily ‘upgradable’ in a higher poly config if needed. I’ll share the model & setup soon when I found some time to pack this in a nice little zip…

Posted: August 29th, 2007 under vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 2