CGNetworks Reader Project :: Juan Siquier
Creating "DBT CafÃ© "
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About the image
Habitually, I go for long walks across my city with a digital camera and look for some corner that interests me, where I then create it in 3D. I found this house in a village of Zaragoza in Spain which they call Daroca, it is the type of building that I like because it includes curved walls and irregular angles with a lot of personality. It consisted of all the ingredients that interest me, like; wooden blinds, forge balconies, awnings, drain pipes, chimneys and antennas. It is these objects that make a house work and I think that they should be visible, just like lines in a drawing or the focus in a theatre scenario. I decided to use the house of Daroca to give homage to my friends of the DBT family with an imaginary coffee.

Modelling
The modeling of the scene is very simple where I start from a plain drawing, then with splines, I apply all necessary extrusions. I don't like to use the boolean operation in MAX, so I made the window holes by cutting the geometry with slice planes and then apply extrusions with negative values. When I have modelled the windows and doors, I proceed to add small damages to the borders using bevels and edges that I subdivide for later or add some noise.
I then slice the polygons of the whole house and slightly curve all the surfaces avoiding direct lines, if possible.
The awning was made with Examesh and Clothreyes and pipes were created by lofting a circle. Pivots are all lathed lines and the cables, antennas and the handrails of the balconies are all renderable splines.
None of the walls are aligned with the home grid so I have had to make custom grids that are aligned with each wall of the house, I then activate it to work on the designated wall.

Custom grids