This weekend was an experiment in time management. Friday night, I thought I had the whole weekend to complete this model. I was really looking forward to it. But then I tried to start my car. Bad idea. Dead battery. After an hour of fighting an intermittent car alarm that suddenly couldn't be disabled--apparently the one thing the battery still had enough juice to run--I finally disconnected the horn and gave up, knowing my Saturday morning was gone before it started. On Saturday I got up and with the help of a neighbor, pushed the car out of the driveway enough for him to try to jump start it. Didn't work. So we pushed it back and waited for the tow truck. By 2pm, after a new battery, state inspection, replaced tail light and a new drive belt (it's never just one thing), I was finally back home, broke and pissed. So I took my newly healthy car for a run to Princeton to take some modeling reference shots of the car wash.
I spent the rest of Saturday trying to get as many lighting reference shots as I could. I only have about three left, and those are tough ones. A sunset should be easy, but my entire neighborhood is in shadow. I'll have to find another place to set up the gazing ball and just deal with the crazy looks I guess. The foggy morning is going to be tough. You don't get many of those in June. A cloudy day might be doable in the middle of next week if I can get back from Austin in time, and that's only if the weather forecast is correct. I had a cloudy day for the first half of Saturday, but by the time I got back from the Toyota dealership, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It seems I can never spend less than three hours there at a time anymore.
So that left today to do some actual modeling. I have the walls, baseboards and most of the window finished. It's gotten a lot easier, it's just tedious. So many small parts everywhere. And I'm a stickler for beveled edges, as there are no hard CG corners anywhere in real life. I have to have edges that catch the light.
I'm taking two trips out of town this week, but I hope to still get all the modeling and texturing done by next Sunday night. It might happen.
I spent the rest of Saturday trying to get as many lighting reference shots as I could. I only have about three left, and those are tough ones. A sunset should be easy, but my entire neighborhood is in shadow. I'll have to find another place to set up the gazing ball and just deal with the crazy looks I guess. The foggy morning is going to be tough. You don't get many of those in June. A cloudy day might be doable in the middle of next week if I can get back from Austin in time, and that's only if the weather forecast is correct. I had a cloudy day for the first half of Saturday, but by the time I got back from the Toyota dealership, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It seems I can never spend less than three hours there at a time anymore.
So that left today to do some actual modeling. I have the walls, baseboards and most of the window finished. It's gotten a lot easier, it's just tedious. So many small parts everywhere. And I'm a stickler for beveled edges, as there are no hard CG corners anywhere in real life. I have to have edges that catch the light.
I'm taking two trips out of town this week, but I hope to still get all the modeling and texturing done by next Sunday night. It might happen.
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