Week 7

This is the very first image showing the water effect which i had created. I do like the effect but i am not to sure about the outcome and feel that the look of the water would be better suited to a beach scene. The water in a swimming pool is much smoother with hardly any current at all. As well as this the water appears to have no reflection. I may decide to change the water once i have completed other aspects of the design.

Throughout the week i have continued with the idea and have added some new objects. These objects are the umbrella and the sun loungers.

The umbrella

The umbrella started out as a sphere with 32 segments. To get the umbrella shape you then have to convert the sphere into a hemisphere by simply selecting the option in the menu bar.

I needed to convert the shape into an editable Poly and then delete the bottom to get a recognisable umbrella shape.

With the basic shape completed i wanted to make the object more realistic by protruding sections to simulate the frame work of the umbrella.

To do this i used the line selection tool in the top view to select parts of 16 lines around the hemisphere. There are 32 lines around the hemisphere, so to get equal spacing i selected every other line. Once all of the line parts are selected use the loop option as it will then highlight the whole of each line.

With the lines selected i simply used the scale tool to drag them out to create the protrusions. The shape looked a bit rough at first so i added a chamfer amount of 0.1 and then applied a mesh smooth modifier.

To finish off the object i will go on to model a simple stand. I intend to use basic shapes as a stand shape is not very complex.

The sun loungers

In theory i thought the sun loungers would be easy to make. During the process i found it very hard to angle the shapes to create the slats for the back rest. The slats are box shapes and the frames are made up of cylinders. Once i had modeled one i then duplicated it to achieve the second. All that was left to do was place them within the image.

I feel that the idea of the loungers work well within the composition of the image. The objects are simple but appear effective.