House Model

Modeling House Fun

This past semester I have been mode modeling a house. This house has taken me a long time to create and I'm still working on the texturing and some other rooms. This house has taught me to be a patient worker, a model doesn't just "poof" onto my computer screen.  It has taken me lots of time and effort to put forth theses rooms in this house.  I mostly worked on the inside detailed parts of the house, but there were a few outside elements, the detail in the garage and also the front porch.

Building and idea off of paper

This is one of the couches with the front door of the house in
the background

My idea started with just a simple drawing that I drew in my sketchbook. I was the living room. The living room consisted of a TV, 2 couches, 2 end tables, a coffee table, and a TV stand. That drawing I was almost identical to the model in Maya 2016. Once I took the idea into Maya, I made a flat plane and the two walls that were my living room. I started with making the two couches, which were probably my favorite because of the butt print I made on the couch using soft select. I made the tables with drawers and made a cool little effect on having the drawers open in a lot of the modeled items. After done withe the tables, I added the TV to the model. The TV consisted of a lot of extruding and shrinking faces to make a good frame on the TV. The last and probably most time consuming thing I modeled was the lap top. There was lots of extruding in that as well however I like to put detail into things so I made the keyboard pretty detailed with the arrow keys being put out correctly.

Finishing the outline of the House

Once was done with everything in the living room, I decided to finish of the outline of the house.  I had to figure out though what kind of house I wanted it to be, trying to decide between modern or Victorian style. I decided to go more Victorian style because I just like the way they are shaped and the way they look. I made a rather larger outline which eventually I shrunk down a little. But I had it well mapped out where and what I want every room to be. I wanted there to also be a basement and a second floor, I haven't gotten to them yet but I have both entryways done. Like I explained I have it all mapped out and ready to go.

Modeling the Kitchen

Modeling the kitchen was probably my favorite part so far of this project. There is just a lot of things you can add with a kitchen. The sink, stove, dishwasher, toaster, fridge... The list goes on. I started with the cabinet, getting a fresh full layout of where the stove, dishwasher, and fridge would go within the cabinets. I also added cabinets above the main cabinets to give a more finished off kitchen look.  After I got the main look in the kitchen I started to add details to it, like the fridge with the water dispenser, which was  just a lot of extruding. I also added pretty detailed stove, that was probably my favorite thing to make in the kitchen, just because it took a decent amount of time to make, but in the end it really make the kitchen stick out. I also made a window in the kitchen that looks off into the living room making a good eating space between that wall. I also added a great little island in the middle of my kitchen which really just binds the whole kitchen together as a whole. Problems that I ran into were I need to save more often because Maya hates me and will crash a decent amount of the time.

Texturing 

Texturing was the very last thing that I did so far with this house. I saved it for last because texturing is not my strong suit. I  just don't get colors to work as well as I wish I did. I used lamberts and, blinn and, phongs. I haven't quite finished my texturing yet within the house, I am still experimenting with the floor and what color I should make the wall. Some problems I ran into were mostly in the texturing, like just simple things like figuring out what the color should be for the walls, floors, etc... The picture to the right you will see that the table has a nice dark granite counter top.

Overall

This is definitely my favorite most challenging project yet. It tested my ability for how fast I can work, which is not very fast yet. I just like modeling houses in general, or any interior of a building, I would say that is my more stronger suit, especially when it comes to adding detail to the model itself. I will still definitely keep working on this, when it is 100% down, it will be on here.