Week 5 - Creating the Glasses

Throughout the project I had a little idea that I wanted to do to possibly improve my mark for the head model. For the original images, I removed my glasses that I wear on a day to day basis so that it made it a lot easier for the modelling process that I have gone through. I decided that to maybe get a few more marks whilst also making the model look more realistic, I wanted to model and create some glasses for my model.

I didn’t intend to spend a huge amount of time working on the glasses as I know the amount of marks available for a small extra is not worth spending huge amounts of time on. The process that I used was a simple method using the skill set that I have learnt over the last few years.

I started off by creating a plane with 4 length and 4 width segments. I placed this plane over the eye of the model to get an idea of shape, size and positioning

I moved the vertices around on the front of the glasses so it gave a more realistic look of the lens and a small frame around to hold the lens in place.

The next step was to create the frame that would go over the ear and keep them on a person’s face. To do this I used the “Shift + Move” tool to create a few extra polygons. I then angled them to run alongside the head. When I got to the top of the ear, I created two more Polygons, which I moved the vertices of to hook them over the ear.

I then started to create the bridge over the nose. I used the same method to create some extra polygons over the nose. I shaped them so they bridged onto the top of the nose.

I added a turbosmooth and a symmetry modifier to make the glasses more realistic. I finished off by adding 2 materials to the glasses. I selected all of the Polygon’s that were in the frame and set their material ID. I then selected all of the lens Polygons and gave them a new ID. This would make it easier for me to apply 2 separate materials. I created a dark blue colour for the frame and a very light blue colour for the lens. I reduced the opacity of the lens so that it was transparent but had a slight tint of colour to show that there was a lens on them.