For this term we have to create a hot air balloon festival for our nuke project, this project combines with our Maya course because here we had to create a hot air balloon that would fit in our own made hot air balloon festival. so in our Maya class, we started to work on our hot air balloon. we did this for 2 weeks with the knowledge we got from the other things we already created. Below you see the different parts of the hot air balloon created during the classes.
For the balloon and the ropes, we used the spline tool that we learned during the class we made the wine glasses. for the balloon, it is quite the same process as the wineglass itself. You create the shape that you want and then resolve around this. after you finish this shape you add some detail so you get the right balloon shape for your hot air balloon. For the ropes, it is a little bit more complex, yet you still need the spline tool to create the basic starter’s shape. At the top and the bottom of the rope, I added a loop and a few tubes to get a system that would be holding the balloon to the basket.
For the bottom part of the hot air balloon, we needed a basket that is connected to the balloon, this was quite a simple process with mainly cylinders connecting to some pipes that hold the basket together. and we added a coil with a gas tank for the realism of the hot air balloon, these were both cylinders where I pulled some edges and pushes some edges to create some extra texture. And we used the bend tool to create pipes going from the gas tank to the coil.
For the hot air balloon we created during class I used a lot of basic textures to create the finishing look of the hot air balloon. Looking back on my hot air balloon I feel like it is missing a lot, it looks like a hot air balloon but it is really basic in my opinion. I worked really hard and fast on this balloon to keep track of the classes and be able to use a balloon for our nuke project. But I feel like I could do way better, so this is exactly what I am going to do. with all the knowledge I got I am going to redesign a hot air balloon and start from the beginning to create this balloon. You will see this in a later update on the blog.