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3DCTM 1. Understand the basic components of a 3D Model

My first model of a Barrel

This was my first real model of anything and it was a low poly barrel.

When I started making this model I had almost no clue how to model and had to be taught through all the steps, but eventually I made the barrel and went on to texture it begin texturing it. for now I will talk through how I made the model; first I made a cylinder and extruded It up until it was the height I wanted it. Secondly I made a cut round the middle of the barrel to and bevelled it to give it a curved edge, then I deleted both the top and bottom faces. after that I extruded both the bottom and top edge inwards and down to give it a lip around the edges. Finally I bridged the top and bottom lib closed. to seal the model.

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The next stage to do was unwrapping and texturing the model. which was a crazy experience for me as I had never seen anything like this before, anyway the process went as such; I selected the 3 different parts of the model and unwrapped them individually. the top and bottom of the barrel I did as a planar unwrap and the outside of the barrel I had to unwrap as a cylinder which resulted in the UV map below. This was then imported into Photoshop in order to grab a texture from the internet and place it onto the UV map and manipulated it to fit, unfortunately i did not complete my project and the texturing was not complete but i am keeping in mind that this was my first attempt at any of this and did not fully understand what i was doing which i do now.

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For more details and a better idea of the work flow go to and check out the low poly/final barrel pages in the hand in folder: https://studentssthelensac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rhinde_staff_sthelens_ac_uk1/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc={163d52c4-3c2c-4016-a7e9-f9992d67525b}&action=view&wd=target%28Aidan%20Walker%2FHand%20in%20%28marking%20Stage%201%5C%29.one%7C7078ce7e-b14a-4bc5-bab3-a5674e774abc%2FFinal%20Barrel%7C3356a9fa-d359-4d6f-a4a1-50c34fdf1c0d%2F%29

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