At the beginning of this term, we made a hot air balloon for the hot air balloon festival. Since it was very rushed the classes I was not very content with my design. I felt it was lacking a lot and not really mine but one that everybody made. so I went online to get some references and redid the whole balloon. I added some extra things and paid more attention to make it have no wrong edges. I also made a sketch of how I wanted the balloon to really look then I jumped into Maya and created this better version of my hot air balloon.
For the ropes, I did the same as I learned in class and duplicated it a few times to create the roped X pattern along the balloon. behind that, I did some ‘platforms’ to give the balloon a bit more depth. Instead of immediately tying the ropes from the balloon to the basket I decided to use hanging ropes and connect the basket to the balloon through iron bars. The only things I used from the old hot air balloon were the coil and the gas tank, I feel that these 2 things were already quite good in my first draft. Lastly, I added a few more details to the basket to make it a little bit more its own thing, with more ropes, and hanging sacks. For the texture, I used mostly basic textures that are already presented to me through the Maya software.