Chess planning

[Fearuin]

Hello everyone,
I’ve made some researches and I’ve found a beautiful chess set that I would like to reproduce and dimensions that are compliant with the USCF standards.
Here they are!

Chess set:

Aaaand dimensions:

[bOBaN]

Those might be hard to model, but look cool! Good luck!

[FedPete]

I would advise you to follow the chess tutorial first. Then build your own version.

[Fearuin]

Ok then, I will try with classic chess following the tutorial and then I’ll try this version, 'cause I like them so much and I’m so excited to reproduce them!

[NP5]

Good decision. I saw it late last night and thought it ambitious, but thought perhaps you were not a beginner at 3d work.

[bOBaN]

Another alternative is to do both at the same time. I did it and it worked. I.e., I first modeled a pawn that was shown in the course, then model my pawn of choice. And it came out quite good:

Brass vs Wood - Multiple Cameras

… and remade lighting again during the challenge … Here are my shots: “Standard” (the angle I’ve been working mostly so far in this section) [2020-01-01 - Chess Scene - Cameras - C1 Overview] Back: [2020-01-01 - Chess Scene - Cameras - C3 Back] Two shots of where the “action” is going on: [2020-01-01 - Chess Scene - Cameras - C2 Fight 1] [2020-01-01 - Chess Scene - Cameras - C2 Fight 2] Side views for both sides: [2020-01-01 - Chess Scene - Cameras - C4 Side Brass] [2020-01-01 - …

Chess Set - 3 different styles showcase scene & archviz ;-)

Final render… in Unreal Engine 4. Tried Realtime Ray Tracing as well, but without RTX it was pain to work with and couldn’t achieve comparable result to the one shown below. On the other hand, render in Cycles looks way better, but I’m too novice in Blender to compose the whole scene with all the effects yet. Room environment made with some UE assets, many of them heavily modified (esp. shaders and texturing). Spent waaaaay to much time on this…

Though your references might be a bit more complicated then what I’ve chosen

[Fearuin]

Woah! Yours looks really cool too! Especially the one with the “C” on the top!
I think I’ll take the idea of doing the standard ones for the white and the cool ones for the black and if at the end of the white I see that I’m able to reproduce the ones I choose I’ll do them, otherwise, I have another really cool alternative that could be hard but maybe easier than the first one:

(Btw really really thanks for the response and the idea! I really appreciated that!!!)

[bOBaN]

@Fearuin

Woah! Yours looks really cool too! Especially the one with the “C” on the top!

Thank you!

@Fearuin

I think I’ll take the idea of doing the standard ones for the white and the cool ones for the black and if at the end of the white I see that I’m able to reproduce the ones I choose I’ll do them, otherwise, I have another really cool alternative that could be hard but maybe easier than the first one:

Those ones are cool as well and they should be easier to make as they are more symmetrical. But I keep my fingers crossed that you mange to make the first ones you showed . If not then after getting some more experience you can go back and make them.

@Fearuin

(Btw really really thanks for the response and the idea! I really appreciated that!!!)

You are welcome . This community is quite friendly . Everybody is helping each other .