In this 57 minute tutorial I’ll show you how to model and render an animation of an iPhone/Smartphone. I’ll show you how to deal with the tricky holes in the body and then we cover some basic animation so you can achieve a render similar to the one below…
iPhone Tutorial Details
Starting with a basic cube in Cheetah3D we’ll learn to construct the basic shape of a smartphone in a way that will allow us to add more detail in the right way. Although the tutorial is very much working on a phone that looks very similar to an iPhone, it’s very adaptable and can be translated to any kind of phone or tablet that you want to render.
Beyond the model we’ll look at how to work with texture maps to get our apps on the screen and deal with lighting using an HDR image (included in the download).
Finally we’ll set up a basic animation recording and manipulating keyframes to really allow us to show off our model.
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Included in with the tutorial file…
- Cheetah file (.jas)
- Texture maps (.jpg and .png)
- HDRI (.hdr)
- Final rendered movie (.mov)
- Tutorial movie (.mp4)
Hope you like it!
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Another great tutorial Dave. This one inspired me to model and animate some tech equipment we use at work for a training video – rather than create another dull PowerPoint deck . Good work!
Hi Jonny, Would love to see what you’ve made!
Hi Dave, I’ve sent you a dropbox link with the .jas file. I’ll send the render there too in the next couple of days
Hi Jonny, I’ve not received anything?
I’ve re-sent the link to hello@mac3dsoftware.com (was trying to man-multitask the first time around so may have messed it up then!) – is that the right address?
I think the right email is info@
I’ve put the files on my ftp server together with some other stuff I’ve created in Cheetah3D since using your tutorials.
Do you still have your fan problem? I’ve seen this a lot – but there is a very cheap and simple solution. Buy a can of aerosol air cleaner. You can get the good stuff from Maplin for about £9 a can, but I’ve seen some passable stuff in Poundland for …. £1. Switch off the laptop and take it away from stuff that doesn’t like dust (your cup of coffee, the wife, babies etc!). Blow the air into any fan exhaust slots. On my 2012 MacBook Pro this is under the black strip of plastic on the back edge of the case. You should hear the fans spool up with the movement of air and a cloud of dust fly out! Should be quieter as the fans have a clear exhaust path and faster (many of the Intel processors step down their clocking rate if they hit a certain temperature)
Cheers!
Jonny