Post the first model you made! [Archive]

TryForce

11-24-2008, 07:46 AM

Ouh, i might be young but i started at 2003 >_< , my first model was a krillin, fully skinned thanks to a mate and modeled and placed ingame. Sigh i cant bring up a pic, every host having a picture of it is dead. sorry.

here is the oldest model pic i have of:
http://img211.exs.cx/img211/3609/riu5jy.jpg
build march 2005 ^^

compared to nowdays:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k35/TryForceX/TirusFinal.jpg

i call that an awesome change haha

slipgatecentral

11-24-2008, 08:14 AM

I am sure this will bring back many memories.

You mean _very_ first model or first completed ingame character?

Because my first models were just an assembly of 3dsmax primitives boxmapped with ultimate texture of doom http://img1.grafika.cz/grafika/images/PLATEOX2.jpg

TryForce man that's just too cool to be someones first model, pretty sure you had something older before that one was made :)

TryForce

11-24-2008, 10:39 AM

Ouh, i might be young but i started at 2003 >_< , my first model was a krillin, fully skinned thanks to a mate and modeled and placed ingame. Sigh i cant bring up a pic, every host having a picture of it is dead. sorry.

here is the oldest model pic i have of:

TryForce man that's just too cool to be someones first model, pretty sure you had something older before that one was made

just read the text ^^ my first model was made 2003, that model above was 2005

JacqueChoi

11-29-2008, 06:41 PM

3 spheres on top of each other. Snow man
Sphere for the eyes, and a ring of 5 spheres for the mouth.

I extruded a cylinder to make a hat. That took me like... 3 days.
All With a phong shader!

Took nearly 15mins to render a frame, despite only 400 polygons with no textures.

Horay for 3D Studio R4 on DOS!

Ran on a 486!

:D

Josh Singh

01-01-2009, 06:55 PM

So I found this on my hardrive, Im almost embarassed to show it.
BEHOLD MY FIRST DEMOREEL! circa 2003...
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That phone number dosen't work anymore Btw. lol

Lamont

01-01-2009, 07:15 PM

First model it was this bunny with a gun... right after I drew this character...

http://cybermanga.com/dutch/visiters-du/visi-img/lamont.JPG

Blenderhead

01-01-2009, 07:18 PM

Haha that monkey is hilarious josh!

Josh Singh

01-01-2009, 07:19 PM

oh and I found this little animation I made, I made the model too. This was back at my first gig at Wahoo Studios in Pleasant Grove UT.
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bounchfx

01-02-2009, 12:57 AM

I'm only posting this because it's on the photobucket account I made a long time ago and haven't touched. heee.

behold, my first 'high poly' character (and first character in general I believe)
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s14/bounchfx/ladue_threeforths.jpg

Damn you, Proportionnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssss!!

Twindragon

01-02-2009, 01:12 AM

I started with 3d studio r4 like joxx. I was taking autocad in high school this was way back in 97 and I used to model simple robot dinosaurs and import them into 3d studio add basic textures and animate them as well as a robotech character. I also modeled the space ship from independence day. Boolean back then was my best friend lol. I don't have any pictures of those models unfortunately but I do have my very first low poly model.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Twindragon/reptile.jpg
very first low poly model..I couldn't unwrap for the life of me or rig.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Twindragon/spaceships.jpg
second model seams galore.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Twindragon/mech.jpg
3rd model getting better but still bad seams and stretching.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Twindragon/firstcontest.jpg
First modeling contest at cgchat. I still couldn't rig.

The last 2 was when i started to get serious about 3d and started practicing before I went to school. For some reason I am always modeling reptile characters lol.

ReplicA

01-02-2009, 02:18 AM

My first models were a box "city" so I could fly a camera through it. :) I originally wanted to be an animator, so I didn't really care about modeling.

Fortunately, I no longer have my early models, or renders of them. I don't get attached to my work, so once it's done, and I have a render or two that's worth going anywhere, I don't care what happens to the model itself.

Twindragon

01-02-2009, 02:30 AM

So I found this on my hardrive, Im almost embarassed to show it.
BEHOLD MY FIRST DEMOREEL!...

Hey Josh when did you make that demo reel. Your stuff has definitely improved. Although that second mech was pretty sweet.

kexan

01-02-2009, 04:00 AM

these things cant be your FIRST model ever can it? surely your leaving out some horrible missmodeled project that was your first crack at 3d?

mine´s a horrible glock, gonna get a pic from school later.

ilegacy

01-02-2009, 06:41 AM

In my personal forum (made for some guys i studied with) i created a "antique" category where you can find 7 threads with the oldest models we could find. I love them:

http://simont.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=10

ploon

01-02-2009, 07:17 AM

Damn this is gonna age me somewhat, heres about the 5th or sixth cos i lost most of my stuff, modelled in 1996-97 ish ( i think) and ended up as the cover for a Philip K Dick book (three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)
Did it for a fan site, publishers wanted to use it but couldnt contact me (changed internet account! ouch) so they commisioned Chris Moore to do a copy. Long story blah blah, got credited as "inspiration" heh.

cookepuss

01-03-2009, 12:08 PM

I first started CG back in 1989 so my first model is long gone. Of course, it was a metallic sphere on a checkered stage. :) That was a big deal back then since everything was hand coded and it would still be a year before 3D Studio DOS v1 came out.

This is the oldest model I could find. It was from about August 1997.

"Pentacle" was my first character model. I made him in trueSpace 3. About a month later, I switched to 3dsmax v2. After a year, I abandoned 3ds forever since, at the time, Win95 and 3dsmax were still pretty unstable.

The PC specs (iirc) were:
- Pentium 120mhz w/512mb RAM, Rendition Verite V1000 GPU, 10GB HDD, & a large (:p) 14" monitor.

The model specs were:
- Approx 250 poly & two 256x256 textures - one specifically for the head. (I originally made him for a game I was coding at home.)

This is scanned in from a 17"x22" Kodak print I had in storage for 11+ years. Hence, the degraded visual. Sorry.

Blenderhead

01-06-2009, 02:38 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v306/Twindragon/spaceships.jpg

That's a sweet lens flare :p

zeke3d

01-06-2009, 02:54 PM

I was doing really primative 3d stuff in highschool, no pun intended, here is my demo reel from early 04, got my career started. I thought I would keep making reels but they are just too hard and time consuming.

http://www.esequiel.com/media/04reelshot.jpg (http://www.esequiel.com/media/demoreel04large.Mov)

right click to save as.

Ged

01-06-2009, 05:52 PM

my first try at actually making a character was for the big blizzard 3D character competition a few years ago. I had done some 3D models before but never proper game quality characters, this model was a big learning curve for me and helped me realise how much I enjoyed this.

I even used bump maps LOL

http://fc27.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/037/5/b/Celsior_by_SirCula.jpg

ThatDon

01-06-2009, 06:09 PM

Here's some of my first models while I was in school.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/JohnyKnoxville/forrealfinal.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/JohnyKnoxville/finalcomposition1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/JohnyKnoxville/finalcomposition2.jpg

Yozora

01-06-2009, 06:22 PM

My first ever 3d models/environment

http://tompoon.com/wip/room.jpg

Blitzblaster

01-06-2009, 07:06 PM

Cool thread, so here comes my first steps render picture.

mr_ace

01-06-2009, 09:56 PM

thatdon, dude, those are no way ur first models! i still cant do that! my first model was some crappy lamp thing made of primitives, and my first character was some god awful recreation of some 3dtotal tutorial. ill post them up some time, but they are propper terrible!

JacqueChoi

01-07-2009, 02:24 PM

Holy crap!

The first company I ever worked for died a slow and painful death back in 2002, making a wierd space MMO RTS called COSM.

And I managed to somehow find ONE screenshot for it:
http://www.mogonline.com/art/ping/cosmonline.png

There were 3 artists on the team. I never made the do hickey fondue looking space thingy (I made other things that resembled other kitchen appliances), but I did texture that planet, light and compose that scene:

Dysfunctional

01-07-2009, 10:10 PM

I dug this up in some obscure folder on my hard drive from back in 2003.
This is the first tutorial I can remember doing using Lightwave 7. It was based off of some Babylon 5 space shuttle.
I look back now and I don't know how I ever managed to use Lightwave.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5765/ship4rz7.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/7400/ship5om2.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9063/shipod9.jpg

Ramseus

01-08-2009, 03:19 PM

My first model that wasn't just primitives (heh, spiky maces lol) was some sort of demon head I made in gmax from the built in tutorials. I made a bunch of those heads, and they were supra kewl! I also made some sort of really simple tie fighter. And then I tried doing the full character tutorial and failed massively and got bored of 3d.

That was 10 years ago or so, I rediscovered 3d a few years ago but just did textures (and cleaning up other people's models :/ ) for a while before actually trying to model for myself. And this is the result, it's really basic and has unexplainable extra loops all over the place. I don't know why I never textured it...

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7479/50301099ug2.jpg

GunofthePatriot

01-12-2009, 04:28 AM

oww, nice thread xD I found one mine, I think this is the first organic thing that I modeled in.. hmm.. June '07 D;

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t267/arucard_24/Witch_front.jpg
yes, no hands (!), now i remember, i was trying for first time normal mapping, there in the skirt of the lady. xD

Mincher

01-12-2009, 08:45 AM

My first model was a modified Barney from Half Life.

Modified and re-textured to look like Homer Simpson. I wish I still had pictures. Shortly after that I made a rocket for Quake that opened up into a sheild when fired.

-JB-

01-12-2009, 02:44 PM

my first model was :

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1319/palacetestpic2yw9.jpg (http://imageshack.us) http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/palacetestpic2yw9.jpg/1/w640.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img246/palacetestpic2yw9.jpg/1/)

rv_el

01-13-2009, 04:15 PM

Ged

01-13-2009, 06:40 PM

This is seriously your guys first? first first? Man i'd be embarrassed to post mine. Atleast i could say i came a long way right. I dont really have images of my very first stuff though. I think it was Lightwave in like 98/99. And some max stuff that was mostly primitives jammed together. Yikes. First Max/Serious Sam Mod character probably wouldn't be tooooo bad though.

I assumed when they said first model they meant the first proper character / prop or something. I dont even consider all those jumbles of polygons and primitives I first made in max 5 to be models.

jolo88

01-13-2009, 07:40 PM

I keep my first models as a laugh. I think i started with a smiley face of spheres but i managed to find these. :D

I wish i thought of the snowman idea thats genius

http://i44.tinypic.com/2nktn7.jpg
This was one of my 1st because i hadnt read anything on the program and i was creating it by spheres and lattices. I remember that it use to lag my familie's 300mhz machine.

http://i42.tinypic.com/bdjt06.jpg
I had a green cone with a semi-transparent material on it to look like a hollogram. Also i remember on the final version i used a wire frame render of the glasses that i placed inside the beam. (That was before the xbox was out from some prototype photos).

http://i42.tinypic.com/29pt3lv.jpg
I made this purely to start playng with animation and keyframing

http://i40.tinypic.com/nlcwvr.jpg
A bear yeh but modelled from a sphere with a few extrudes :D.

rv_el: this will give you some support :)

ir0nside

01-14-2009, 01:09 AM

nothings welded, I didn't know what editble poly/mesh meant. haha good times. I think the best part was sitting in the cafeteria trying to get some upperclassmen to show me how to animate it :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/FightingGrapefruit/lolarak.jpg

ASTRA

01-14-2009, 03:10 AM

he he fist model i made :P and it not done yet:D
http://savepic.ru/403750m.jpg (http://savepic.ru/403750.htm) http://savepic.ru/415014m.jpg (http://savepic.ru/415014.htm) http://savepic.ru/413990m.jpg (http://savepic.ru/413990.htm)