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Building 3D Models with modo 701

By : Juan Jiménez García
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Building 3D Models with modo 701

By: Juan Jiménez García

Overview of this book

<p>Computer generated graphics (CGI) are part of the design market. CGI helps digital designers from many industries to have a clear representation of their products before they are produced. To name a few, interior designers, architectural studios, and furniture designers can implement CGI images into their workflow, saving them time and money.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" will introduce you to the world of next generation 3D content creation in a practical manner. This will not be a software manual, but a real-world guide that will skip the unnecessary details and focus on what's needed to complete a commission from a client. It will get you the best results in minimum time.</p> <p>In this book you will learn the entire process, from a preliminary design to the final art. All the stages are covered. You will be guided through modeling, creating materials, placing lights, optimizing your render, and showing it to your customer in an efficient way.</p> <p>You will learn how to quickly generate shapes and recreate real-world materials present in most of scenes: wood, metals, glass; along with working with textures and learning how to apply them convincingly. Create the mood of your scene by using lights, place the camera like a photographer would do to get that nice shot, and make a good quality realistic render and show it to your client with that extra punch of production that every pro should know.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" is not a user manual, but a step-by-step walkthrough of the real world of a 3D artist.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building 3D Models with modo 701
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using HDRI illumination


HDRI stands for high dynamic range image. It's an image format, just like JPEG, but with more information in it. While JPEG contains information about color (RGB values), the HDRI format contains information about luminosity, which makes it a good tool to be used as a light source.

Right inside modo's library, you can see a lot of HDRI images (in the Environment folder). Just select one and drag it into your scene. You can use whichever image you want (as long as it is in the HDRI format). There are a lot of sites across the Internet where you can find good quality HDRI images. I recommend you to take a look at http://hdrmaps.com/freebies.

Normally, we will use a plain color or maybe a range of colors from the Environment Material item to generate a general shading. By using HDRI images, we will get way better and richer shading and toning in our images, especially in exterior shots. For this very reason, a VFX supervisor will take a panoramic...