Midterm Pre-Production

For my midterm I've decided to make a chessboard. Since this assignment is heavy on modeling and relatively light on animation, I figured making a chessboard with all the pieces would be a good idea and would let me practice modeling more. I also know what a chessboard and pieces look like, so I don't have to do too too much research before I start modeling.

I'm trying to base my chess board and pieces off of the ones in this image:

I'm using these specific images as references:

pawn

bishop

king

knight

queen

I already have the rook modeled from last week's assignment (see a few posts below), so that's two pieces out of the way already.

I needed a refresher on using the CV curve tool and the Revolve tool, so this video was pretty helpful. It also pointed out using a reference image, which I had never thought of but is obviously really helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt4oMqSL0iE
I ended up using several tutorials and help pages during this assignment, including:

• This video on using Boolean Difference
• Convert NURBS surfaces to a polygon mesh
• Fill holes in a polygon mesh
• Combine polygon meshes