from scratch

more work.... started from scratch again.
Rather than use the rotoscope method I used crossing planes ( will post later).
Anyway, I got better results for the holes and such but I am still getting errors.



More to mention but I am tired.

some rough materials

UPDATE


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did some more cleanup and refinement of the mesh, working out the kinks of measuring in real-->3d, used an image to get the primary size and shape and now measuring (with a vernier caliper) to get the size of the phone.

The silver trim is made with a incidence in the shiny port of a modified phong shader (preset manager - a grey plastic). The black plastic on the bottom is made with the same material I used for the buttons. I modeled the ridges in the middle button,
rather than try to do them with a texture/bump map, although I think I will do that for the rest of the rough/textured surfaces on the phone.

cell phone --current

more work on my current cell phone, getting better

This took me about today to build...
I struggled with the holes and hard edged deformations. This is at Geometry Approximation; render level 2, no automatic discontinuity*. I read in the manual that it is more efficient. Not sure why but, to me, it seems obvious that if its always smooth it will be better.

some stuff -- getting more prof. look

some work on the cell phone using new ideas/techiniques.
added name bitmap to the improved phone. The improvements have yet to be finalized by welding together so there is a clear seam. Altogether though I feel better about this process.