Week 6

At first I wanted to model a full base camp however once I had shown my tutor, he told me that that was going to be too big and I needed to keep the size of the environment to a minimum. So I then decided to create a base tent. This was going to be inspired by an image I found on the internet.

I started off by creating a base floor which in this case was a cylinder.  The next step was for me to create the tent. For this I simply created a rectangular primitive and moved the top faces inwards so it becomes more like a roof. I then added an entrance which was just a hole on the side of the tent.  I then added the frame of the tent this was too add stability and support. This was a set of cylinder pipes with extensions to fit into each other. I had one long pipe running down the middle of the roof whilst having one in the middle of the back and two on either side of the tent.

The final part of the diorama was to add an entrance sign. This very simply and easy to model.  I simply created a cylinder pipe and moved the top half inwards to create a curve.  I then added a rectangular primitive. Bevelling the edges and extruding inwards gave me this sign looking shape. Once I had done this I could start to UV un-wrap the model and environment scene so that I could then add textures.