non-organic A simple red cup!

[thegoodlol]

This is my best finished work till now xD . I spent
more time texturing and lighting than modeling :s. I'm not sure if that was the best texture.
I created a cylinder, than started beveling it. I Also created a hole for the water!
Anyway, here it is:

[TE_]

hi man, not so bad on the begining) but i see there a error at the bottom, something is inside, huh) anyway, u should first do a clay render of this, the tutorial on how to do it, is here in tutorial section. When u do a cup like this the more easy way is to do it with spline and lathe, u do a side view of the cup with spline adn apply the modifikator, its more faster and easy). To set up a scene for a single cup is very hard, but to put a cup in a empty scene is bad), u should try to do a scene with the cup standing on a table, the light is wrong, can u show us the lightning setup, i mean the scene and the lights there)

[thegoodlol]

Well I did the hole for the cup :x Of course nobody will drink from that, but makes it more realistic. However I had a problem when rendering the cup. When I was trying to show the "hole" of the cup, it looked like the cup was cut or something, but that only appeared after rendering :S. It really makes me mad. Well, I can't explain well here. I'll post a screenshot:


Well, about the lighting, I'm not sure how to use the lights, I just place them to get some brightness :x. Normally I use Omnis, not sure wich one is better.
About the texture, I was thinking about getting a glass-type texture, but I'm not sure how to do that too!


Ok I just added a better environment (background):




Lights:



P.S: On the first post, I said: "I created a cylinder, than started bending it.", but I meant beveling. Using Bevel. My mistake >_>

[SJH]

That problem with the hole is easy to sort out mate. First if you want to be able to see the inside of the cup while your working in the Max viewports Right click on the viewport name ('Persepective' in the top left corner of the viewport) and click 'Configure' then under rendering options check the 'Force 2-sided' box.

If you want to be able to see it when rendering just go to 'Rendering' on the top bar (Along from File, Edit, Tools etc) and click 'Renderer' in the dropdown list (Shortcut key for this is F10). Then under the 'Options' list check the 'Force 2-Sided' box again. Now you should be able to see it when rendering.

Hope that helps

[thegoodlol]

Yeah thanks for the tip! I managed to do that, and here it is:
Looks better than ever

[SJH]

Yeah looks good mate, you should check out Jelmers tutorial on creating a pot. The tutorial takes you through modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering the scene. You could take the texturing part of the tutorial and apply it to this model which would make it seem more real.

Here is the link to the tutorial if your interested

Pottery: model, uv, texture, render