Year 1 – Perfect Destination Project – Putting it all together

Redrawing the EGG HOUSE mesh:

Initially I wanted the egg houses to look like decorated easter eggs (as shown above). However once I discovered what the UV unwrapping looked like, I solemnly understood it would be quite difficult to achieve.

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I thought if I retopologized the mesh using quad draw that the UV unwrapping would be more clean (I should’ve just tried the UV cut and sew method we previously learned but somehow I thought that redrawing the mesh was the way to go about this). After hours of redrawing the mesh on, I came to the conclusion that just painting them one color would be fine enough for me. I did also try the 3D-Paint tool but when I would paint on one side of the egg, other small faces from other parts of the egg would be colored as well; I assume this fault is due to the messy model’s mesh.

Placing TREES, BENCHES, BIRDHOUSES in the environment:

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I placed some models in the bird nest environment to get a feel of where and how everything should be placed. This was the first time I placed all my models in the same world so it was quite exciting to see them all there. I placed the trees in using a MASH network to randomize the placement of the trees on top of the bird-nest-floor mesh; However, after seeing how many more trees I would need, I decided to individually place the rest on the bird-nest-floor mesh.

Placing ROCKS, FEATHERS, GRASS, and BIRDS:

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Placing the grass, trees, rocks, and feathers on the slanted land mesh was very time consuming and annoying to work with. It felt like the longest portion of this project I had to do compared to all other stages (modeling, animation, etc).

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I used the 3D-Paininting option to make a path from each egg house on the bird nest floor mesh. I really enjoyed learning this paining tool and would use it in the future as well.