Making of a Chess Pawn

This tutorial is one of a chess set tutorials explaining how to create a pawn, a rook, a knight and a chessboard itself.


In this tutorial you will learn how to create a chess Pawn.

As usual, you will need a reference image before you start creating anything. You can upload this one or find/create another one.







1. On a front view create a 150 x 100 (Generic units) plane. Then right-click the Front View and check Smooth and Highlight. This will allow you to create your pawn easily.



2. Press M and choose an empty slot. Go to Diffuse color, hit the grey square near it and choose a Bitmap to import the reference image. Apply the image to the Plane.





3. On a front view outline only a half of the reference pawn using a Line tool. Close spline when you finish outlining. If the outline is not as accurate as it supposed to choose Vertexes (Modifier menu) and right click your mouse. Click Bezier Corners. Now u can adjust each corner handle separately.







When finished outlining go to interpolation and change to 20 steps to make the line smoother. If you need to add some vertexes, press Refine and hit the line when little white cross appears above it.









4. When you are pleased with the outline, go to the Modifier menu and choose a Lathe modifier. You will see that your outline became 3 dimensional.


In Parameters press Min button to set the pawn right. Change Segments to 40. Keep smoothing the corners, if needed.

5. Basically, the pawn is ready. Apply an ochre color to it (177,148,26) and that's it.

Notice: Another way to create a Chess pawn is to use a Loft Deformation .

If you have any questions regarding this tutorial, do not hesitate to ask me.

Enjoy,
Dalia

Color bleeding in VRay

When I started working with VRay renderer, I discovered that as of rendering there are many colorfull shadows spread around the object. I realized it was something to do with setting but being new to this engine I also knew that it will take me ages to look for the button responsible for this effect.

Luckily, I found this cool tutorial where the author not only names the symptom, but also gives a solution to the problem.
It is called a Color bleeding and there are several ways to solve it.
Here you'll be able to learn how.

Sure, you will find it helpful.

Let there be 3D!!!!!

This blog is to become a collection of links that are related to theoretical and practical applications of Computer Graphics and Animation, including tutorials, galleries, articles and sites. Since I was (and still am) eager to know as much as possible about 3D CG, I created my own list of essential CG info resources. As my list was growing, I found it equally hard to find the necessary material either on web or my computer. So the main purpose of this blog is to create a collection of all the info that I ever found useful (for me) without the need to search for it whenever I decide to use it again.

The first link will lead you to Tutorialized, a well known website providing all-kind and all-level tutorials including 2&3D graphics, web design, video editing, programming and many more. Since I'm basically self taught (except a short course in college), I practically (still) live there. If you're not familiar with this site, check it out. And if you're new to CG – this one is made for you.