Desert Boat

Aug 14, 2022

I’m a big fan of paintings and pictures of a boat with “Point Reyes” on the bow for some reason. I must have seen the picture come up on the Chromecast idle rotation and there are some pretty great pictures and drawings/paintings of it out there. And then I’m also a fan of some photos of the Namibian desert that I’ve seen, likely also on the Chromecast. So I took some liberties with my wife’s subject of a boat at sea this week and decided to model the boat and then projection map the texture to it. Was interesting and I’m okay with the result aside from not having a ton of time to work on the lighting again.

If I were to do this one again I would have started with a very low-poly object, project the texture, and then done the final texturing. I think I made the whole process more difficult for myself by getting complicated geometry and then trying to stack UV faces in a way that lined up. Also, I’m a huge fan of Ian Hubert who you should definitely check out.