Quick-Crit 2010

Decided to try my hand at designing a tablet PC for a project.

http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled-17.png
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/Tablet-1.png
A lot of wasted place I know, still working on that.
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/TabletUV.png

Lol, getting a tablet. You're doing it wrong.

I'd buy it, but that's probably because angles turn me on. I don't like rounded corners.

I thought it was the cover to a crate in Halo. >.< I would suggest making the renders more realistic if anything. And moving the screen behind a thin layer of "glass". It just looks like you applied a screen texture to a face. There's no real... uh... design I guess. At least not a very comfortable easy to look at design.

Oh shit that's sexy.

Isn't this the 2010 thread?

:smithparrot:

Oh shit.
Why haven't we locked it yet?

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Originally Posted by TVTyrant

Isn't this the 2010 thread?

:smithparrot:

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party like it's 1999 2010:iamafag:

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Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII

I thought it was the cover to a crate in Halo. >.< I would suggest making the renders more realistic if anything. And moving the screen behind a thin layer of "glass". It just looks like you applied a screen texture to a face. There's no real... uh... design I guess. At least not a very comfortable easy to look at design.

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Yeah, I've actually started doing exactly that, I've begun to inset the display slightly so they there is a thin bezel and then move the display inwards so it now has a layer of glass/perspex to add some depth.
I'm not entirely sure how to go about making the renders more realistic but I've taken notes on having the model showing it topology off better than a mere clay render.

E:
You may not see it in the second image but the screen is inset by a few milimetres and then down by a few with a glass cover over it.
working on the high poly getting all the details I need in before I go and bake a normal map for this.
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/...7/readings.png
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/.../readings2.png

Now it's looking good. I like what you've done so far!

You seem to have put the main viewing screen so close to the edges of the main frame, yet you have so much spaced wasted as soon as it inclines (The frame work). If the screen doesn't need that extra trimming on the main device, what does? I mean if its the hardware, it would only make the tablet more fat (You can see this on the HP tablet, ect).
So atm, you have a lot of wasted space, which doesn't make any sense.
(If you don't get what I mean, I am referring to the inclined parts of the tablet.)

Also, use Mental ray to render or Vray, will really help bring out the tablet. :)