3D Class- Blog Report Assignment 2 (part 1)
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I’m still trying to catch up with the blog posts for the 3D course and I’m on the posts for the 3rd week. I will try and finish the other posts as soon as possible. – – – This week our class went to Fornsalen which is a museum in Visby. First we got a guided tour of the museum, and then every student had to choose one of the exhibition’s objects to model for the 2nd assignment of the course. I chose a table:
It was actually in a room that our guide (or at least the group I was in) didn’t talk about, but next to it there was a sign that telling about how the Danes ruled over Gotland from the castle of Visborg, and that they made life miserable for the people living on the island by collecting taxes and not paying the peasants enough money for food and other necessities. It also mentioned one of the lords of the Visborg castle, Ivar Axelsson Tott, who ruled it year 1465 and apparently spent a lot of money to pay for all the guards and other people living at the castle. (I’m guessing that it meant that he lived a rather luxurious life?) The sign didn’t say anything about the table, but looking at it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it had been in the castle or in the house of another rich person.
It has a lot of decorations on it, and it seems to be some kind of marble slab (I have no idea if that’s the correct word) on top of it. There’s something called “Gotland’s Marble” which I have a vague memory of the guide mentioning in one of the rooms of the museum, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any pictures of it when I looked it up. If the table was made here, it may be possible that it’s the kind of marble that’s on this table. It feels like it’s a table that was commissioned by someone, because if it would only have been for practical purposes it would have been made a lot simpler. It’s meant to be a fine object for others to admire, and judging by the drawer that’s on one of the table’s sides, it was probably more of a writing desk than a dinner room table. I think it’s really sad though that there didn’t seem to be any information about the table or the other furniture around it at the museum, because I can only guess from reading the sign that it had belonged to one of the Danish lords of the castle or another rich person around the year 1465… – – – The reason why I picked the table was because I really liked how it looked and thought that it was really interesting that it was so decorated. The marble on top of the table was very cool and it’s pretty amazing how well it works together with the wood. I wonder if they fit that well when the wood and table was new… the wood is aged, but I’m actually not that sure whether or not marble ages that much? Anyway it would have been interesting to see how the table looked when it was new. When it comes to visual style I’m thinking of aiming for a visual style similar to Skyrim, and try to keep it pretty close to the original table (but a little less aged perhaps). I’m thinking of maybe ignoring a few scrapes and things that I’ve seen on some of the reference photos I took, but it all depends on how long it all will take and if it’s worth it or not. I’m not going to carve any decisions regarding details in stone until I know how difficult or easy it will be to create this model and its textures… I’m going to try my best to emphasize the decorations and the marble part of the table, since it’s what makes the table stand out the most and what makes it so appealing. I’m also thinking of modelling the drawer half-open as it is in the reference pictures, but if something wouldn’t work out I will merely texture it so that it’s closed instead. When it comes to negative/positive stereotypes in the representation of the object I’m not really sure what it would mean when it comes to this table. I don’t really know what a table stereotype would be…unless it would mean something like making an older table a lot older, or making an already decorated table even more decorated to the point that it can’t be used because it’s decorated too much. Regarding risks with the modelling process I’m a bit concerned when it comes to duplicating some parts of the table (such as the legs) and putting it all together. I’ve realized that there’s always a risk of overlapping faces/edges when modelling, and even though I kind of know how to fix it I’m still not that confident in doing it. (So I prefer avoiding it if possible). I’m going to work really carefully with this model and check for overlapping faces and edges from time to time so that I can fix it before it becomes more difficult. Other than that I’m not really sure on what will be difficult or not at the moment, and I guess I’ll notice when I start out modelling. And last but not least, here are some photos of the tables with the edgeflow plans:  |
