Lamp Post Model

For the animation, we will need lamp posts for the environment. My first thought when constructing the lamp post was a thought back to last years 3D modelling class. In one of the first tutorials, we used a tool called the lathe tool. This enables you to use a spline of half an object and it will symetrically encorporate the half shape into a rounded full shape, we made a chess piece using this method

I thought this would be an excellent tool to use for the lamp post. To begin I did some quick research into what lamp posts looked like in the 1940's and came up with this picture as a guide:

 

The first thing I did was to draw half the lamp post in Illustrator

 

 

 I then imported this into 3DS max and used modify > lathe. This left me with a lamp post shape. I converted this shape into an editable poly.