tennis ball

Hello all! So I am fairly new to blender and 3d modeling.I am no where near done with this I just had finished maybe the first step into what im doing with this tennis ball but thought I would send out the render of what I have so far and maybe get feedback on this, hopefully i get some good and not just all bad :P. I havent worked on the lighting and have not gone into compositing yet. This is just the basics with a sun lamp on sky mountain mode. Hope ya’ll like it for what it is now!

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/final%20renders/newscene.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/final%20renders/newscene.jpg

Hey that’s really quite good. I’m guessing you’re showing us a ‘used’ ball. It’s a bit on the green side. Not sure if you’re modeling a green ball or not. It’s been a while since I bought tennis balls. As well I’m not sure if at Wimbledon if the balls get grass stained or not. They use there own brand there I’m thinking not that Wilson isn’t good.

Great job especially for one of your first renders.

Cheers
Ron

Hey,
Yeah i really like it! Its a great first render and much better than my first (such a long time ago already,man time flys, lol ^_^) The only thing thats bothering me is the shininess if the hair. From what i remember about a tennisball, its less shiny and more rough like…i still think its a great model though, even for how simple it is. Ill follow this thread till u have the finished result then ill critique it :wink:

I can’t see any images ?

Nice! Maybe the grey gummy bits are a TAD to bland/smooth but other than that thumbs up.

Marco :slight_smile:

Thank you all for the compliments and help on this!! I’m glad to hear the good and bad so i know what to improve or how to do it. I did do this pretty much from scratch with the particles so it was all just messing around with some setting to get to this.

Ronson2k3: This is suppose to be a used ball lol. I used wilson only because I saw the wilson logo when looking around at some logos to put on the ball lol. I should look up a Wimbledon ball, never knew they had there own ball. Also il try turning down the green a little too. Thank you for the help and also for the good compliment!

fpsgod17: I agree it is to shinny so I will have to fix that, just not sure how to make the hair less hinny. Would that be under the roughness part under children in the particle system or is there another way? Now this is my first render I have put on here but I do have a few more (but they were only to learn stuff so its from tutorials all around, nothing my own). but I will start putting up more pictures as I go through with this tennis ball! Thank you for wanting to help and critique as I go a long.

jonathandone:Rreally? I wonder why you cant see anything…hmmm

bonteburg: What do you mean by gummy bits lol, I just have never heard that before, but thank you for the two thumbs up!

The grey stripes running along its surface. Aren’t they made of rubber or something? I forget…

Maybe they’re more furry too in real life (same material as the yellow bits but kinda flatter).

heres a new render of the tennis ball…

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/ball2-1.jpg

Hmmm, tennis balls are more soft & fuzzy. Right now, that one kind of looks like it has teeny-tiny grass covering it? Keep it up!

http://12nakaka.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/tennis-ball-650x487.jpeg

how do u get the fuzz and softness like that?!?! lol thats wut im trying for just not sure how to do that

well im trying to figure it out with some messing around some more

heres something new im trying:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/newball.jpg

Wimbledon Tennis Balls (Slazenger)

Your model is looking pretty cool… Might be good to do a scene with a few balls and racket. Like a product ad or something.

That looks much more like a tennis ball now :smiley: Maybe you could add another particle system to make some random longer strands, i can see a few in the image Ronson2k3 postedGood work

thank you, i actually am trying the second particle system and just need to make some adjustments before i put up another render…those wimbledon balls are coool!

ok so i started the fuzz and its coming along great…i can see it just need more of it! here you all go :

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/ball-1.jpg

or more brighter?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b210/king50/ball3-1.jpg

Finaly see the pics changed web browsers, looking good

thank you jonathandone!!!

The new fuzz looks really good!

Just keeps improving :smiley: Well done