Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max – Day 1

Oct 6th in 3D Art, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Rendering, Shaders, Texturing by Georgi Zahariev

In this multi-part, hard surface modeling, texturing, and rendering tutorial, you will learn how to quickly create a realistic looking Nokia 5800. The techniques shown in this tutorial can easily be applied to other 3d applications, and the methods of making the phone itself are fast, and very efficient. Though the resulting mesh will not be perfect, the final render will still look great, thus the goal of this tutorial is not to teach you how to make a perfect mesh, but to teach you a trick or two about fast and efficient modeling.

Author: Georgi Zahariev

I'm a 20 year old CG freelancer from Bulgaria. I have one year of professional experience in the field of 3D animation, and I work for a small TV company. I also fill my spare time with freelance work and creating tutorials related to 3DS Max for our site http://www.tripodbg.com.

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All Image October 6th

Thanks again!! love the max tuts!! can’t wait for the texturing (still a beginner) and thanks for letting me know about some of the hot keys, should speed things up a bit!
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Nicolas October 6th

Absolutely awesome !
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Kaj October 6th

Looking real good.
Thanks for the tut.
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Stefan October 6th

Great tutorial as usual. Good work bro
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Chris Martin October 6th

Nice result!!
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adam October 6th

I just wish this tut was on Cinema 4d…
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1. John Doe October 12th
  
  Me to. Al lot of the controls in 3ds max are a lot like Cinema. Its actually a great exercise to try to follow along in another software. If you know the basics you can figure out the rest.
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w1sh October 6th

HALLELUJAH!
Just when I thought Envato had fallen behind the curve on cellphone tutorials, you drop this bomb on me!
Not only have continued this epic tradition of making a tutorial about cellphones, but you’ve up’d the ante and enveloped this brilliance in 3D!
Bravo Envato. *slow clap*
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Saad October 7th

Awesome, Fantastic, Wonderful !
Thank you
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Georgi "Vrednia" Zahariev October 7th

thank you all!!! hope to have time to finish the texturing part soon
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DougZerbini October 7th

my to ,, brasil to…
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tam lam October 7th

could you show me how to get the tutorial
it not preview on the web
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chuck October 8th

Awesome works
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Tomas Sinkunas October 8th

yeah, looking good.
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WASSIM LENS PRODUCTION October 8th

Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz Plz
Please Je Veux Une Lesson De Modilng De Telephgon
( In Maya 2009 )
Pls Tutorial Modeling In Phone In Maya
PLS
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Thiago Paulino October 9th

Maaaan ! Congratulation !! For you and for the Envato team
Amazing content, absolutely stunning
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davit October 9th

getting started really good, keep the spirit bro and thank u for the nice tut, bravo prqtel samo taka – po na6enski:)
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John Doe October 12th

This was a great tutorial. There’s going to be a second part for the texturing right? That’s what I am most interested in. I found this link and I’ve been really trying to wrap my head around how this result was achieved.
http://www.3dtotal.com//team/Tutorials_3/Compositing/Compositing_01.php
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Felipe October 13th

Where i found the references?
Plis help
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Georgi "Vrednia" Zahariev October 14th

http://www.mobile-review.com
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John Doe October 15th

Good ref images here:
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-5800-xpressmusic/gallery
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Varun October 16th

REEEEEly Awesome bro”
one i was always looking out for one such king of tutts
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Varun October 16th

I was looking for vray RENDER
stuff!”
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Overtrack October 19th

Hey!
Nice tutorial, thanks you for sharing your knowledge.
Some of you could find a lots of usefull blueprints here http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/phones/ but unfortunatly not the Nokia 5800…
So you can check here for orthographic images http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5800_navigation_edition-pictures-2906.php (almost the same mobile phone) and here http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5800_xpressmusic-3d-spin-2537.php for a usefull turn around.
Nonetheless, if someone had the real refs, it would be appreciated.
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1. Overtrack October 19th
  
  Oops… I didn’t notice… Like Georgi said it on the first video –> http://www.mobile-review.com/review/image/nokia/5800-2/pic/all-face.jpg
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DuROCHER October 21st

Fantastic!!! Thank You
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dotndot October 22nd

Awesome tutorial.If you can add some shadow at the bottom it will look more real one.
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Nio October 23rd

Bravo pich!

You have great accent!
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rafay October 25th

i its a nice tutorial
but u did’nt show how to setup the refernce images?:(
plzz can u do that?
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Jools October 25th

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It’s easy to follow, love the shortcuts and your modelling speed. Very insipring for fast results without bothering too much about having a clean mesh. I always try to have 100% quad models and I waste way too much time.
Looking forward to more tutorials from you.
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maged October 26th

Absolutely cool modeling tut
waiting the tex and render
thanks
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james October 27th

hey i was just searching this kinda tuts thanks a lot were can i found the continuing part ie material and rendering
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mac October 28th

i saw the vanishing point tut in ur web site
its a gr8 technique
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John Doe November 2nd

Are you going to do a second part with materials and rendering?
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Jean November 3rd

Thank you for a really great tutorial. I use Maya but its easy enough to apply the same technique. I really need a tutorial on texturing a phone so it looks realistic though, so im hoping you will continue this tutorial very soon.
I’m busy trying to model the Nokia Nibiru concept phone, im having some issues lol
Thank you again for your effort!
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Timothy November 6th

wohoo! i have a black n5800, i want to try this one in blender! thank you!
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Isaac November 11th

I found the images but i want to know how to separate them. Its all one big image. Did you use Autodesk to do it or some other photo-editing program, for example paint.net, or Photoshop?
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Phuong November 12th

I can’t download the videos : /… anyone having the same problem?
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1. John Doe February 1st
  
  Yea, links are dead!
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  1. Kaleb Aylsworth February 2nd
    
    I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Both the Flash players and the links are working fine.
Phuong November 13th

I think im blocked from blip.tv =( i dont know why. I was downloading just fine a few days ago and yesterday my browser said it couldnt find blip.tv. My fiance in the States can still see the page =( Anyone knows what’s going on?
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tkey November 16th

i can’t view the video >..<
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Regenbogen November 26th

Hi from Uzbekistan, amazing tut. Thx a lot !
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