'3D Studio Max'

Software Used :

3ds Max, mental ray & Photoshop

Introduction :

For my latest work I choose to reproduce a piece of concept art by Seung Ho Henrik, “The Tunnel” (Fig.01). I thought this would make an interesting choice as far as the textures, the lighting and the general atmosphere involved were concerned. Modeling in this scene was relatively easy; to give shape to the various objects I often started from Primitives and then changed them, handling them as editable poly. Thus in this Making OfI’ll focus on the texturing bit instead.

Fig.01

Textures :

All textures used in this project are included in the 3DTotal Textures Collection! The collection is made of 19 DVDs, divided into categories. For the scene I used four of those DVDs:

Total Textures V01:R2 General Textures	Total Textures V02:R2 Aged & Stressed	Total Textures V03:R2 Bases & Layers	Total Textures V05:R2 Dirt & Graffiti

Each texture also has a bump and specular version and that is very useful as it allows you to have some spare time during texturing! Furthermore, the wide range of good quality textures enables non-expert users to create high quality scenes! But let’s have a look at the textures I used for the scene, starting from the side walls, the floor and the ceiling: Floor (Fig.02 & Fig.03) Ceiling (Fig.04) Walls (Fig.05 & Fig.06) Pillar - for the pillar I used a very simple unwrap to apply the texture correctly (Fig.07).

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