The house project

For school, I have to make a so called "diploma project" (we'll recieve some kind of diploma after this). It consists of designing a house, from hand drawn stuff to CG 3D model to real model. I've done the concept and the "paper work" and now I'm modelling the shit out of it, I want to make all the details possible.

I modelled the house (all things are scale models), wich is basicaly a cube with L = 10m, from 1 piece, starting from a flat box. We didn't have to worry about structural stuff or how the pipes & wiring will be, only the aspect. Aniway I had many sketches and my teacher liked this one the best.

I lost the 2D stuff, but aniway here's the progress I did so far (3ds max 8 + maxwell RC5). I started making kitchen stuff (I'm making furniture & doodads separatly and then import them in the house scene). I also attached a small video of the house (camera spinning around it):










I'm under strong pressure with this project, I have less than 1 month to finish it, 'cause the final renders will have to bake around 100 hours each.

I'll keep updating this thread with work in progress stuff. If you have any questions about the modelling technique & stuff, feel free to ask and I'll try to answer if I have the time.

It's coming along great so far. Creative design, and I love that fridge. You should include your coffee maker heads!

Ah, nice, the design of the kitchen stuff is awesome.. It looks kinda futuristic without being just wierd and ugly sci-fi crap

HELL YES!

well of course I will. that was their purpose. well, they were for that speed modelling challenge but I've chosen to enter it specificaly for this.

Wohoo, if someone would build those coffee brewers (?) in real life, I would buy them at any price! :P

I made the stove (temporary placement, just for render enviroment; quick render with quick materials). Also here's a higher resolution render of the fridge.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I didn't invent any of those things (except the house...well I don't know if I actualy invented it, but aniway) , they're inspired from stuff that I own or from magazines.

You sir, are a God.

Are you studying architecture? Or something different? This looks wonderful.

yes, I'm at the art highschool, architecture class. and I'm not a god at all, I'm but a peasant. this dude is a god: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=307349
and this one:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=317072

oh my dear god... I'll stick to low poly for now

Ew the second one is pretty damn nasty though. But dont sell yourself short, youre great as well, but Im sure you dont need to hear that coming from me.

hehe, if you say so. but I have to catch that guy up, I'm only 18 and that dude is like 23 or 24.

dude... thats 5 years of practice. You know how good you can get in 5 years? I'm the one who needs worry, i've got only 3 years left....

7 years ftw. ^_^

8 years :P

It took me 10 minutes to write this message because I couldn't stop gawping at all that artwork! yours is about as good as theirs, i get a feeling theirs is only slightly better/more realistic, still all the artwork i seen so far that was claimed as gods looks like someone took a picture of real life with an EXTREMELY HI DEF camera... how many years did you say it took them to practice? I've only really started now so I have time to practice :P... but so far it doesn't look like i could get CLOSE to any of yours even with DECADES of training.