Things around me series 1_Vial of sand

I want to model and render some of the things around me.

Here is my first one.. Vial of sand in front of my computer.

Toni Nalbani's Design

Thank You Toni Nalbani for this Model. Here is my night rendering version.

Exploring glass etch...

Exploring glass etch material in Vray SketchUp

Second Thea Render

I think I'm getting the hang of Thea.. This one I used Adaptive AMC rendering engine core.

My first Thea render with my own SketchUp model

A year ago I tried Thea. I gave up because of long rendering time. Fred Moro told me the latest Chameleon version of Thea. I decide to download the upgrade and tried Thea again. Here is my raw output result so far.

Modeling my Igorot Chair

Here is a quick workflow on how I modeled this chair.

Step 1: Basically I have this reference image. I traced the image using blocks.

For the hand, I used blocks, and used move tool and round edges tool using the simple chamfer tool.

Here is the one with projected texture

Then I mirror the finished model before using SDS tool with 2 iterations

Here is the finished top part

For the legs I used again a simple rectangular tool, I copied the one edge then subdivided it. then I moved/scaled each subdivision, afterwards I used SDS with 1 iteration.

For the circular part, I modeled it using an octagonal shape, applied round corner with only 1 side.

After chamfering both face, again I used SDS with 2 iterations.

I used sculpt tool to relax and displaced some edges.

Here is the model. For the leg behind, its almost similar with the front legs.

Finished Model