Post 33: Seems Like a Crazy Idea?

  Well, it seems like a crazy idea to spend a whole day building a 3D console, but I believe it's worth it. At this point, the Basement has very little in terms of 3D objects: doors, sets, that's it. I feel it needs a fairly good size beautiful 3D thing I can pan around.
   I had some pictures of some beautiful Yellow and Green Italian Marble Fireplace mantels, which I use in the Basement Set, but they look flat from the sides obviously, and I cannot turn the to always face the camera as I do with Paper Dolls and other small objects:

    The Green one is too ornate to build in 3D with after Effects. I need something more  like a console, with simple shapes. A Google search turned up a bunch of good stuff, two of them real possibilities. One is an Antique Faux Marble Italian wooden Console:

   The other is a Yellow Marble Mantel very similar to the one I already had, BUT with a front view and a three quarter view, which allowed me to cut it up in pieces with good image definition:

   Each piece was saved as a separate image, and put back together in 3D in After Effects.

   By late afternoon, it was assembled in 3D and looked pretty good(almost like the real hing actually):

   I dropped it into the basement, but it actually doesn't come out looking so three dimensional after all. 

   To make the best of it, I may have to use a few virtual lights to get some shadows...

 What I have done to try and lighten the load on the computer is breaking up the entire huge 3D composition for the Whole Theatre into it's major parts: the Introduction, the Theatre, the Stage, and the Basement. Inseams to make things easier.