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How to Create a Cup Texture - Cheetah 3D Modeling

How to Create a Cup Texture - Cheetah 3D Modeling People ask me all the time, Eric is there a simple cheap way I can get in to 3D just to learn or for my own amusement and hobby or just to do little personal projects or even professional projects on a smaller scale, because I don’t have money for a lot Wav or Houdini or Maya and I’m not going to use it in a school setting or a professional setting and the PLE’s won’t cut it sometimes in their water marks. Is there any way I can get a cheap application to do this because these applications are between $800.00 and $12,000.00 for a complete package. So you know there is in recent, there is a great modeling tool for OS X called Cheetah 3D and it does a wonderful little 3D application for 100 bucks or 150 bucks depending on when you get it and it’s got a great render. It’s fast and it’s a great modeling. There are no fluids or fur or cloth, I mean it’s a wonderful 3D modeler and animator. You can animate with it and animate your models and it’s a really great little package to begin with. It’s not going to take you very far, I mean it can take you pretty four hours you can say that but you know it’s great place to start. So let’s get started and build a little model. This is not really a tutorial this is just to show you how this kind of works and what is lack and what are little bit of what is capable of. So I’m going to go up here and lay down me a polygon. I want to lay down a cylinder. I’m going over here and set my proportions so it works out. Everything works out okay with that right there and let me zoom that a little bit and like I’ve said this is not a tutorial. This is just kind of a demonstration of how this thing works and what you can do with it. So let’s move ahead in my car object editable. Now as you can see we have our little polygon here. So let’s go ahead and let’s make a cup. I’m going to select these polygons and I’m going to exclude this a little bit and we’re going to do that again like that. Now let’s go under here and let’s select this phase and this phase and let’s delete it. So now let’s merge these two, I’ll bridge them. I’m going to bridge this point and this point and now as you can see we have a rough base outline for our cup. So let’s go on a little bit further with this. Well, let’s go ahead and do a ring-cut done here at the bottom. Let’s select our edges here. I’m just going to edge mode and we’ll do a loop select and as you can see when I do that and loop around like that. So let’s get on this up a little bit. Let’s convert it to polygons. Now since we got our top selected here, we want to pull that down a little bit because we’re going to use that to simulate our water. Well, you know there’s no fluid in this little application, but we’re just trying to make this look the best we can. Now if I render it now this surface and this cup would be the same. They would be together. They would be the same surface, so you want to make these separate surfaces. So I’m going to select my edge there as you can see. Now as you can see that’s blue. Let’s also select these creases under here. So far we got this little base beginning to have a cup here. So let me go into polygon mode and select this top here like this, just click and drag. I’m going to crumple it and that would distort it a little bit. So now let’s deselect everything, let’s do a subdivide. Now we got our subdivide here. Now we have this little coffee mug. As you can see, I don’t like these creases here, I don‘t like these. So let’s go into our edge mode and we’ll select it and we’ll toggle those creases and as you see let’s get rid of that. Let’s do this one, we’ll do this one too, and the last one under here. Now I guess we could add a material to it just to make it stand out a little bit. I’ll select that right there. I’ll go then to my materials. I add a normal material. Let’s make it blue or drag that on to our selection there. And now when I render this, you’ll see we have our cup. Let’s get a little bit closer so I can get a better look at and there we go. Quick, fast model, it looks good, decent and this is a perfect, beautiful little application to get your feet wet within 3D to begin this on in your models, to get your head wrapped around, how certain things work and just a good place to start guys. It really is. You’ll be surprised at some of the work you can do with this little application. You can go to the website and look at the gallery. There are some really fantastic little works being put out of this. So give it a shot, Cheetah 3D, $99.00 on sale. $150.00 regular, it’s worth it, give it a try. Thanks for watching guys.

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How to Create a Cup Texture - Cheetah 3D Modeling

People ask me all the time, Eric is there a simple cheap way I can get in to 3D just to learn or for my own amusement and hobby or just to do little personal projects or even professional projects on a smaller scale, because I don’t have money for a lot Wav or Houdini or Maya and I’m not going to use it in a school setting or a professional setting and the PLE’s won’t cut it sometimes in their water marks.

Is there any way I can get a cheap application to do this because these applications are between $800.00 and $12,000.00 for a complete package. So you know there is in recent, there is a great modeling tool for OS X called Cheetah 3D and it does a wonderful little 3D application for 100 bucks or 150 bucks depending on when you get it and it’s got a great render. It’s fast and it’s a great modeling. There are no fluids or fur or cloth, I mean it’s a wonderful 3D modeler and animator. You can animate with it and animate your models and it’s a really great little package to begin with. It’s not going to take you very far, I mean it can take you pretty four hours you can say that but you know it’s great place to start.

So let’s get started and build a little model. This is not really a tutorial this is just to show you how this kind of works and what is lack and what are little bit of what is capable of. So I’m going to go up here and lay down me a polygon. I want to lay down a cylinder. I’m going over here and set my proportions so it works out. Everything works out okay with that right there and let me zoom that a little bit and like I’ve said this is not a tutorial. This is just kind of a demonstration of how this thing works and what you can do with it.

So let’s move ahead in my car object editable. Now as you can see we have our little polygon here. So let’s go ahead and let’s make a cup. I’m going to select these polygons and I’m going to exclude this a little bit and we’re going to do that again like that. Now let’s go under here and let’s select this phase and this phase and let’s delete it. So now let’s merge these two, I’ll bridge them. I’m going to bridge this point and this point and now as you can see we have a rough base outline for our cup.

So let’s go on a little bit further with this. Well, let’s go ahead and do a ring-cut done here at the bottom. Let’s select our edges here. I’m just going to edge mode and we’ll do a loop select and as you can see when I do that and loop around like that. So let’s get on this up a little bit. Let’s convert it to polygons. Now since we got our top selected here, we want to pull that down a little bit because we’re going to use that to simulate our water. Well, you know there’s no fluid in this little application, but we’re just trying to make this look the best we can.

Now if I render it now this surface and this cup would be the same. They would be together. They would be the same surface, so you want to make these separate surfaces. So I’m going to select my edge there as you can see. Now as you can see that’s blue. Let’s also select these creases under here. So far we got this little base beginning to have a cup here.

So let me go into polygon mode and select this top here like this, just click and drag. I’m going to crumple it and that would distort it a little bit. So now let’s deselect everything, let’s do a subdivide. Now we got our subdivide here. Now we have this little coffee mug. As you can see, I don’t like these creases here, I don‘t like these. So let’s go into our edge mode and we’ll select it and we’ll toggle those creases and as you see let’s get rid of that. Let’s do this one, we’ll do this one too, and the last one under here.

Now I guess we could add a material to it just to make it stand out a little bit. I’ll select that right there. I’ll go then to my materials. I add a normal material. Let’s make it blue or drag that on to our selection there. And now when I render this, you’ll see we have our cup. Let’s get a little bit closer so I can get a better look at and there we go.

Quick, fast model, it looks good, decent and this is a perfect, beautiful little application to get your feet wet within 3D to begin this on in your models, to get your head wrapped around, how certain things work and just a good place to start guys. It really is. You’ll be surprised at some of the work you can do with this little application. You can go to the website and look at the gallery. There are some really fantastic little works being put out of this. So give it a shot, Cheetah 3D, $99.00 on sale. $150.00 regular, it’s worth it, give it a try. Thanks for watching guys.

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