The Asteroid

Step by Step

Finally I have created the Asteroid in which the Space Slug lives. I left this until last as I felt this would be a fairly simple model to create, and it pleasantly proved to be just that. In the screenshots taken of my project I will explain how I came to make the model.

 

1.       First things first, I create a sphere shape. This will be the only shape I will use for this model, believe it or not!

2.       Secondly, I made the shape an editable Polly and stretched it out; making a sort of 3D rounded rectangle shape.

3.       I kept moving the sections of the sphere about, trying to make it look as rocky and rough as possible.

4.       Once I had done that I began to create the crater, in which the space slug will come out of. I simply made the back of the asteroid a sort of cliff, while the front lower down. This will be the view in which we will see my animation.

 

5.       Now I am happy with the shape, all I have to do is find a suitable material to use.

 

6.       Using ideas from both of my other two models materials, I decided to gain an image from the internet and then edit it myself. I found this image of a rocky texture; however it was not the right colour, so I copied this image into Photoshop.

 

7.       Over the image I drew a large box and colour it in a sort of brownish mad/rock colour. I then put the opacity down to 51%, so you can see clearly through the box but still get the brownish quality, as shown in the image below.

 

 

8.       Now all there is to do is add the texture to the modal. I used the same effect as I did with the space slug, using bump, to pick out the highlights and make it look even more rough and rocky.

 

 

9. I’m very pleased with the finished model as I believe this is the most realistic looking model of all the ones I have created. In this image, I was sort of wary about the bottom of the asteroid (in grey) and was not sure how it will look once the material was over it. Fortunately it came out perfectly and doesn’t look like being a problem as I first thought. So that is my third and final model done!