3D activity - Repousse

I am a multimedia student and I'm supposed to be familiar with a lot of design programs, but honestly the least of my favorites, down at the very bottom, is 3D. So surprise, surprise when we were tasked to create something 3D in photoshop, I wasn't very enthusiastic about it.

It's a new feature in CS5 and with our teacher having background in 3D arts, it was inevitable for us not to tackle this one.

The 3D feature being taught to us is called "Repousse" and as the class was led to do the step by step procedures, in my mind I just told myself to endure and get through with it. Of course what I ended up with was this pretty plain looking design that looked like someone with no sense of colour matching had made it. And I was not going to let something like that be posted on the internet. If I'm going to show something to the world, might as well put a little bit of effort into it.

So a couple of days later I finally decided to redo it again, with a little bit of inspiration to boost me up.

A couple of tinkering here and there, had to improvise on some parts because my version didn't have the metal chrome 2 material, a little bit of adding to the whole look, and, VOILA!



I'm pretty pleased with the overall outcome of this activity. Encouraged to venture onto more 3D designing now that I know I can do it in photoshop instead of Maya or some other 3D program which makes it such a chore.

Side note: Rendering this took more time than actually making it.

Haha! Anyhow, I really like what I made, I am content, I am pleased.