Tokyo Travels, Final

This week, I finished work for my final project. I added two detailed objects to my project, a statue of a cat which is a symbol of good fortune in Japan, and a Transformers inspired robot bust, which I am a huge fan of. This is a screenshot of the initial scene, with no textured applied.

The first thing I created was a Transformers logo, for the label on the bust. I created the logo using splines in 3ds Max, and then opened up Illustrator to create a texture for it. I did not use the trace tool for this, as the final result looked shakey and unsharp. So I manually traced an outline of the logo using the lines tool.

I opened the outline in Photoshop and filled in the colors, using gradients and bevel.

I also created a texture for the bump map.

Next, I wanted to create some eyes for the robot. The map for the 3d Model of the eyes portion of the robot looks like this. I took a screenshot and opened it up in AI. I then traced the eyes manually, once again using the line tool. 

I deleted the screenshot, and was left with this.

Again, time to fill in with Photoshop. I added color, gradients, and bevel once again.

I also created a bump map.

The following four pictures below was the same technique as the eyes. This is for the piece on top of the robot's head

This is the same for the bottom half of the robot's face. This is the screenshot of the map.

 Photoshop bevel and gradients.

 Bump map.

 For the cat's face, I did something similar. I started with the screenshot of the 3d map.

This time though, I drew the face in using a combination of the shapes, lines and arc tools.

Here, I created the coin that the cat is holding in AI.

Finished in Photoshop with gradients/bevel.

Cat Paw outline created in AI.

Photoshop with gold claws, red paws. 

Cat ears created in Photoshop, applied with radial gradients.

Final project, with both cat and robot in scene. Closeups of cat and robot are below.