We were tasked to create computer keyboard and monitor in one 3D model with the help of the extrusion tool.
I started by creating the base of the monitor stand by adding divisions to a flat cube and bringing out the sides on the back to make it more rounded.
I then added some definition to the monitor stand by beveling the top sides and created the start of what will be the part which the monitor would be connected to.
Using the extrusion tool, I created a connection from the stand onto an also extruded monitor.
To complete the monitor, once again used the extrusion tool to define where the monitor screen is.
The keyboard was simple, I added numerous divisions to a flat rectangle and extruded many of the small faces to create buttons, to complete the buttons I pulled each face in at once by keeping 'Keep faces together' on.
To create the mouse, I smoothed a cube to a point where it became an oval, deleted the bottom half of the faces and used the 'fill hole' tool to give it a bottom part. To create the left right mouse bottom I slightly extruded two of the faces.
I used the exact same NURBS technique that was present in my lamp project to create a wire connecting from the mouse to the monitor.
I did the same for the keyboard, completing the project.
-Final mesh and wireframe mesh-
Despite being a rather simple project, it still taught me how to model yet another variation of everyday object and also helped me realise that in games a lot of work goes into 3D assests that you might not even be seeing very often and that taking time on all the models can help the game look a lot nicer. I also got to use more NURBS which I enjoy using a lot.
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