Model One - Mobile Phone

I am modelling the mobile phone from Tomorrow Never Dies. All of my models will be made using a reference picture.

Starting with a simple box shape, it was possible to make the shape more "phone like" using the turbo smooth modifier, which made the box more rounded.

Also the extrude tool was used at the top to create the antenna, and at the bottom to create the two prongs that are used for electric shocking.

Colouring was done using the ID tools we looked at last week, putting the antenna as ID2 set as black.

I had a problem with the interface of the phone. The first being I didn't know the best way to do it. I decided to make a plane and mould it to be the shape of the black part around the screen, then use another plane for the screen itself. This led to the next problem, the keypad. After having a fiddle around, I decided to design the keypad in Photoshop and import it into 3DS Max. For some reason, the white space is kept in when the image is imported into 3DS, but this is not a huge problem as it doesn't look to out of place. Am searching for a solution for this, as well as how best to do the phone screen! This is all that is left to do, along with two buttons under the keypad.




I have now completed the mobile phone model. To solve the white space problem I saved the background of the JPEG as grey. I also made the remaining buttons and text, along with adding a few design marks onto the face of the phone (top). The material of the phone screen has been turned into chrome, just to give it a slightly more "real" feel.



I created a table top for the phone to sit on, using a created wood material for the table top.

When the phone is used in the animation, it will be an electric shocking device, so electricity will fire out of the two prongs at the bottom. One model down... two to go!




The final thing I have done to complete this model is to create the setting it will be used in for the trailer. This takes the form of a table containing a safe. The safe is meant to be opened with a swiped card, but it will be opened by the electric shock phone in the trailer. The surface material is glass, which is prebuilt into 3ds max. (materials, standard, solid glass)




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Help with wood material... need name in english...
2010
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=32406&start=0
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2009
Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone
http://movies.ndtv.com/images/PhotoGallery/bondgadgets/5.jpg
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