Deeper Understanding

Autodesk 3ds Max is only available for Windows; due to a lack of ease-of-access to said operating system, I opted to use an alternative production pipeline in which I utilised Autodesk Maya and Blender instead of Autodesk 3ds Max, and created textures in Adobe Photoshop. The models were created in Autodesk Maya by incorporating a mixture of hard-surface and soft-surface modelling techniques, including—for example—the use of curves to loft NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) surfaces and converting them into polygons. One technique is manually editing the polygons with bridges (i.e., connecting two-or-more edges), bevels, cuts, extrusions, and stitches. Another technique is using deformers to organically shape the geometry. Once modelled, simple UV unwrapping was achieved by adjusting the settings of cylindrical and planar UV projections. Once unwrapped, said UV maps were exported and imported into Photoshop. The textures were created with a blend of hand-edited public-domain images and officially branded logos. See the screenshots below for further details.