Modeling ideas in 3D
Recently I moved into a flat-sharing community and besides decorating my room, me and my friends want to reshape our kitchen. Because it is a huge kitchen we thought about creating a living section and a cooking section.
Now the room is pretty much rectangular, 6m x 4m, and the living section is in the back. We have already got a big sofa with a small glass table, a kitchen table and 3 cupboards. Everything else [cooker, oven, sink] are lose objects standing along one 6m wall. Our thought was connecting these underneath one worktop.
So in the end we have one nice cooking area which holds all necessary components, is long enough to fit storage facilities and serves as a working space with an integrated double sink. {sweet}
Bearing all of this in mind, how long will the work plate have to be? Every cm more means higher costs and we are talking about thick wood, at least 3 m…expensive! How will it look? And most important, will we be able to fit the wood through the door or will we have to divide it into two parts? {not sweet}
Thinking about these questions brought me to a point at which writing and graphing wasn’t enough. I wanted to animate our kitchen in order of being able to rearrange single objects @ will. And I thought: hey, when I animate every object and the room itself 1 to 1, I can drag the worktop out of the door and see if it will fit in one piece! Or I could simply measure it by reading it off the scale.
All in all, a 3D model of our kitchen would save us effort [no rearranging to see it actually doesn't fit], money [we know how long the worktop has to be] and time [ doing it again in future].
Luckily I have no idea on how to animate an object or even an entire room. All I have is a somewhat limited license to a program called Cinema4D,* which is as difficult and alien to me as space research. But I really want to animate our kitchen and use the opportunity to blog you how I did it, so you can do it yourself.
Does anyone have a simple 3D creating software he/she could recommend? If not I will have to use Cinema4D, which is in my opinion a bit excessive and difficult for this project. But I would have to start from scratch with every software, so I might just give it a try anyway.
* For animation purposes you need a up-to-date PC with lots of processing power and working memory. I will give it a try with a AMD PhenomII X4 [3.4GHz], GeForce9800GT and 8 GB ram system.
