Introduction and Boolean Tool

Seasons

The seasons I am selecting for my designs are December, March and July. This will help represent three different seasons; Winter, Spring and Summer. The difference between these seasons will help produce unique and contrasting images from each other.

December – I chose this month as it is one of the most festive times of the year being that it contains Christmas. Christmas is an important time of year for everyone and is top of the list when thinking of events throughout a year.

March – I chose March for a few reasons. One being that it feels like the official start to spring and so would mark the change in seasons. Another reason would be that Easter is either just around the corner or falling into this calendar month itself. The final reason is that this month contains my birthday.

July – Again I chose this month so my three scenes would be very different from each other. July is the beginning of the school holidays and is when many families choose to go on vacation.

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BOOLEAN TOOL

In the lecture today we were learning about booleans. This is a few screenshots of various ways the boolean can be used once the objects have been linked together using the suboption 'union':This screenshot (above) shows a box and sphere joined together to create one shape. Below is the same object but using the sub-option of boolean called 'intersection'.
This final image of the boolean tool is the subtraction of object a from object b:

Tweaked Final Fruit Bowl

i decided to play about with my fruit bowl a bit by changing the lighting, adding a table and a table cloth. This is what the outcome was:
The lighting used is simply a skylight - i feel it gives a much more gritty, realistic feel to the image.
The table cloth was produced using a rectangular spline and modifying it using both the 'garment maker' and the 'cloth' modifyer. I then added a texture giving it a light red tint to create more depth.

Completed Fruit Bowl

I have now completed my fruit bowl. Since the last time i have added various grapes and a pineapple. The pineapple is a torus that i stretched out. I created the leaves using the line tool; i then extruded, bent and rotated them to create the image i wanted. The grapes are all spheres that have been stretched slightly to elongate the shape. The pineapple textures again are custom bitmaps. The grapes textures however are created using built in textures with colours altered. The name of the texture is 'Cellular'.

Fruit Bowl

This is my attempt at a fruit bowl so far...
I am still adding to it as I play about getting used to the program.


The apple is a torus filled with a cylinder and a spring added for the stalk. The orange is simply a sphere. The textures for the fruit were custom made using bitmaps. The fruit bowl is also a torus with a cylinder for the base. The 'table' is a plain with a checkered material added on. I added raytraced omni light for the lighted effect...
Fruit coming next...possibly grapes of some description

special thanks to Tom for giving a quick crash course in how to get textures/lighting to work