Making the chamber of oceans

“Making the chamber of oceans ” by Tjerk Otten
The Chamber.

My grandfather was a navy-man and therefore was a lot of his time on the ocean. My own father always went with my grandfather and became also became a captain. In this story i believe they set sail from this harbor in Italy.
In my younger days i also went with my father but the difference between my grandfather and my father is, that i love the modern industry. Loving every aspect of it. Electronics and art creation through a medium that has so many variety and that is just what i loved. I still love the sea, but i choose somewhere in my life to spend my life on land instead of the sea. And by having this background i still feel one with water and everything around it.

The sound of water alone makes me dream and see so many other great projects. So for the chamber of oceans i researched a lot in different harbors, and i could do a lot of this research just in my head, because i already got to a lot of harbors in my past and this is how i got to a very great place. The Harbor of Stellendam, this is a harbor where a lot of sea ships are docked. I packed my video camera and texture camera to shoot there. My wife was also with me to shoot some great photography and film me while working. When we got to the harbor of Stellendam there was a large boat that was totally burned. The engine, everything was gone. I knew i had to get this on tape.

At first, i wanted to use the inside texture from the ship, to use as a reference for the inside of the chamber of oceans, but after some test renders, i tried the outside of the ship for the inside of the room and this worked out great. While i was shooting the textures for the room i was also looking for some sort of floor texture. I felt that it was supposed to be wood. Wooden planks wood be best. So when i walked around between all the great fishing boats, i found a ship with a wooden deck. I shot about 50 to 60 photographs of this and made one giant texture from this in photoshop. Of course i could not use a texture this big and resized it to 5000×5000.
This is still very big and when the project filled up with more objects i made the size 2500×2500. This is more workable in a 3D project. While i had a great texture of wood i wanted to put in a different element, and that different element came from another ship. This ship was next to the other ship and had a big black iron plate in the middle. I was just focused on this plate, because when i shot the texture photography for the main floor, there was one problem. In the middle of the ships deck was a large cargo hold and i couldn’t not shoot this, because it was a big whole. So i used this black plate from this other ship and blended both textures together to get the final image. This would be the base for the project and a good beginning to a very long way that i had to go. Another thing that i found interesting, and i feel the same with drawing art. You begin to love the piece or artwork at the moment that you see you ideas visualized. So when you feel that this is going the right way , it can only became better and better. Next i want to talk about the Wooden Table.
The Iron Pot.

The Iron pot is an object that was something old and recognizable. People would have to feel familiar with the colors and forms. While shopping at our nearest boulevard i found a alternate version of the iron pot that i was looking for, this object can also be seen in the video making of. I loved the whole look and feel to this object. I Used the base of the model and the textures for this, but i didn’t copy everything. I changed things that i didn’t liked or thought would be better for the the project and this is how it became the iron pot that is on the wooden table in the scene. I am always trying to create a very high resolution texture from the objects , so if i am making a very small object i could use it in its full resolution in another project. By Doing this you can create a library of 3D objects with very high resolution pictures that are very good to use in many different situations. The Next object i want to talk about it the wooden table.