Production | Sprint 3

     This sprint draws to a close. Despite the fact that I got a jump on the cards assigned to me, severe illness hindered my the amount of cards that got done this sprint.

    To my producer's surprise a bug in Jira allows me to see the cards assigned to me prior to a sprint being opened to us. I immediately jumped into action looking for references to begin modeling. 

    The bookshelf is a bookshelf, simple as that. Now In regards to the radio tower I suggested the SF radio tower as the main tower and offered to make an additional model of simpler radio tower as a sort of sub stations. This suggestion gaining me another set of cards.

    I looked at subway stations in Boston and recommended a simple subway entrance. My designer wanted it to be blocked off and also wanted a shack like variant. The TV much like the bookshelf is just a TV. The CRT TV was used because the monitor model from the previous sprint can be scaled up for a flat screen.

    This is the reference for the closed shack like subway entrance. I would make use of the open one to build the closed variant. And lastly is the basic radio tower that will act as sub stations for objectives.

    When I took to modeling I jumped into the subway stations first. 

    The two radio towers are scaled down to ensure some sense of continuity as this is going to be atop buildings and may look comical if any taller. The main tower is larger and an homage to the SF radio tower. Both are singular meshes aside from levers and receiver dishes. With both being significantly low poly.

    This being the control panel at the base of the main radio station. It was an extrusion as well as a creative use of vertices. The pulley would be duplicated out and put onto the lesser radio tower without the screen and indicator. Just for some added flair.

    The open subway entrance is a singular mesh aside from the plane that makes up the rubble that blocks it. I modeled it directly from the reference and would end up using it to build the enclosed variant.

    The enclosed variant just takes the ball ornaments off and extrudes a wall from the centers of the railing. It is a tad over-engineered but is a singular mesh aside from the deformed cylinder that acts as a sort of rebar lock. 

Both the TV and bookshelf model were very simple to make compared to the others.

I simply took a cube made edge loops and extruding inward. Then viola a bookshelf

The CRT TV was simple but did reach a road bump when the form just didn't feel reminiscent of a TV.  

After many attempts and a hidden double extrusion I resolved my modeler's block and completed both the models. 

The screen remains flat but I did play with making the screen curved. It resulted in far too many edge loops and figured that players wouldn't be spending too much time looking at a TV.

    Lastly was the UVs I could get to. I cut the struts out of the radio towers to be left with cylinders and adjusting the strut UVs especially. The TV and bookshelf were both simple and easy to get done rapidly. 

    Over the course of the upcoming break I will complete what remains to ready with a clean board for more cards.