So i've made a 3D model of an acrylic wall/house number plaque, the A5-sized, 5mm thick type with the 4 stand-off's. I'm wanting to try a few designs on these before I order any. I've had one on my house for a couple of years now with my house number, street name and postcode on and it's holding up well. I use black sign vinyl for it.
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I modelled it in Rhino and rendered it in keyshot. In one example you can see I have attempted to add some frosted vinyl as a backing to see what that would look like too.
I find that mockups such as these save a lot of wastage and trial & error when it comes to making the real thing, as well as being fun to play around with and useful as online product mockups. Well worth the time making the model (less than an hour) and the render time (about 20 to 30 mins for a decent rendering).
I find that mockups such as these save a lot of wastage and trial & error when it comes to making the real thing, as well as being fun to play around with and useful as online product mockups. Well worth the time making the model (less than an hour) and the render time (about 20 to 30 mins for a decent rendering).
I love to learn how you did this ..Never tried 3D stuff ..do you any where to learn this skill ?. ..Really impressive ...
[MENTION=3684]Ravisteam[/MENTION] - Hi. Thanks for the kind comment. When it comes to 3D modelling, such as this, I'm entirely self-taught. A lot of it is trial and error, you just have to start with something basic and take it from there. In fact, this wall plaque, impressive as it may appear, is a simple rectangular shape with filleted corners. The 4 metal stand-off's are just various sized cylinders joined together and copied and pasted another 3 times. The brick wall is only a flat plane which will be rendered with a brick texture map (image) that I downloaded from Google Images. Really simple stuff, believe me!
I made the model in Rhino 5, but any 3D modellers would do the job. There are many excellent free modellers to download, including the powerful Autodesk Fusion, which is free for personal and limited commercial use.
Once you've designed and exported your model you then need to render it in rendering (raytracing) software to produce a final image. I use Keyshot 6 for this but, again, some decent free renderers exist which will produce the same end results. You can set up multiple scenarios in the rendering software, including lighting, environment, materials, texture maps etc which you can tweak to your heart's desire until you have something that looks good.
So, as the saying goes, 'Google is your friend' here, not forgetting youtube and other ways to learn, such as books and ebooks. It may seem confusing at the beginning but my advice is to stick with one modeller and one renderer and learn all the basic commands. You can see from these wall plaques how even the simplest of models can look great when rendered.
Hope that helps! Like all things in life you just have to devote some (a lot of!) time to it for best results.
