A Work in Progress: Cozy and Elegant Living Room



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Cozy and Elegant Living Room
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living room


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I laid down the points of the floor plan, then connected the points by creating two point polygons.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 1

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I extruded the floor plan, then beveled it.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 2

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I selected the points at the top, then deleted them.

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Here is the top view of the floor plan so far. Beveling the floor plan gave the walls thickness.

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I moved and merged various points to straighten out the walls.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 5

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Here is the perspective view of the floor plan.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 6

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I extruded the floor plan.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 7

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I performed boolean operations to create windows, and I made the floor and ceiling from existing points.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 8

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I used a reference image to sketch the profile for the cornice molding.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 9
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With the ceiling and cornice profile in separate layers, I performed a rail bevel operation to create the cornice molding.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 10

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I created the profile of the baseboard without the aid of a reference image.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 11

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With the floor and baseboard profile sketch in separate layers, I performed a rail bevel operation to create the baseboard.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 12

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Perspective view of walls, floor, ceiling, cornice molding and baseboard.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 13

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I created a window.

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I created a larger window.

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I created a lathe object and its profile without the aid of a reference.

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I used part of one of the windows as a frame and placeholder for the art pieces in the living room. The art itself was created by applying textures from http://www.cgtextures.com.

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I created a ball and modified it with the magnet tool to create the beanbag chair.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 18

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I ran a cloth simulation in Poser to apply the effects of gravity to the beanbag chair.

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I used the box tool and experimented with the settings to create the top portion of the table.

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Here is the model of the completed table. I used a wood texture from http://www.cgtextures.com to surface the top portion of the table. In this step, I have also included a link to the wood texture I used for the floor (from the same website).

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In Layout, I put all of the elements in place and resized items as necessary. Here is the wireframe camera view.

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Step 22

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I used the Surface Editor to apply textures.

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By experimenting with various settings, I put the Sun into place so that it would shine through the large window. The Skylight Plugin by Denis Pontonnier made this task much easier than it would have been otherwise.

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I used radiosity to render the final image.

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I used the Real Lens Camera setting to render the final image.

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Final result

Creation of Cozy and Elegant Living Room: Final Result

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