CUBE -
CUBE
3DSMax
Well, this one is just a doodle-render, but also kind of a practice for me, since I'm rather weak with texture making-unwrapping-baking. I am more modeling person and I get really frustrated when i have to spend a lot of time with Corel, Photoshop or some similar application. Therefore I created a scene in which almost every object needed custom made texture to achieve full effect. I had to use a lot of blending, map mixing, dirt maps to express the dark and decaying atmosphere. Also, since I wanted everything to feel grungy and cheap I used free textures as much as possible which I manipulated, made seamless etc. I goggled some of the pics but I also used free libraries (namely Mayang, to be honest).
As for background story, I used a local urban legend from downtown Belgrade when I was a kid as an inspiration. There was an old service tunnel , near my school and some kids claimed that there was a spooky hobo living deep down inside. So, yeah, this render is just a sort of a joke - Freddy Kruger's love-shack, or something like that... But it's also an cg-arte povera experiment with some subtle details, such as dead golden fish in a dirty fish tank on the right (which, of course you can't see since it's in the dark). Cheers.
P.S.
Now I see that picture came out much darker than original when I uploaded it, I really don't know why that happened...