Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max – Day 1
Tutorial Details
- Program: 3ds Max
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Completion Time: 1 hour
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Twice a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Cgtuts+. Today we’re taking a look back at Georgi Zahariev’s awesome Nokia 5800 tutorial which was originally published back in October of ‘ 09, and proved to be very popular with our 3ds Max users.
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.
This tutorial is Day 1 in a series – Go to Day 2
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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!
Absolutely awesome !
Looking real good.
Thanks for the tut.
Great tutorial as usual. Good work bro :)
Nice result!!
I just wish this tut was on Cinema 4d…
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.
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*
Awesome, Fantastic, Wonderful !
Thank you
thank you all!!! hope to have time to finish the texturing part soon :)
my to ,, brasil to…
could you show me how to get the tutorial
it not preview on the web
Awesome works
yeah, looking good.
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
Maaaan ! Congratulation !! For you and for the Envato team
Amazing content, absolutely stunning
getting started really good, keep the spirit bro and thank u for the nice tut, bravo prqtel samo taka – po na6enski:)
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
Where i found the references?
Plis help
http://www.mobile-review.com
Good ref images here:
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-5800-xpressmusic/gallery
REEEEEly Awesome bro”
one i was always looking out for one such king of tutts
I was looking for vray RENDER
stuff!” :(
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.
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
thanks overtrack!! thanks alot..I’ve been looking for those references like crazy. I searched on mobile-review but couldnt find it unfortunately. Thanks you so much. I will start right away. :D
Fantastic!!! Thank You
Awesome tutorial.If you can add some shadow at the bottom it will look more real one.
Bravo pich!
:D
You have great accent!
i its a nice tutorial
but u did’nt show how to setup the refernce images?:(
plzz can u do that?
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.
Absolutely cool modeling tut
waiting the tex and render
thanks
hey i was just searching this kinda tuts thanks a lot were can i found the continuing part ie material and rendering
i saw the vanishing point tut in ur web site
its a gr8 technique
Are you going to do a second part with materials and rendering?
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!
wohoo! i have a black n5800, i want to try this one in blender! thank you!
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?
I can’t download the videos : /… anyone having the same problem?
Yea, links are dead!
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Both the Flash players and the links are working fine.
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?
i can’t view the video >..<
Hi from Uzbekistan, amazing tut. Thx a lot !
So I used planes that were textured with an image for the reference plaines, but obviously that’s not what he did in the tutorial since he can cull the backside. Since there is no “backside” to my reference planes I have to leave them so they block my view, which doesn’t exactly make things easy… Can someone explain how to set up the reference planes properly?
Bindaas tuts…..reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Nice modeling.thank u.
hi……………..
very gud work
Many thanks of ur tutorial u help me alot in modeling thanks once agin
and next time please model a computer mouse
I thought this was to teach me how to build a Nokia 5800 ? I didn’t learn nothing about electronics in this video. I want to know how to build a real Nokia & then to get it working :))
I didn’t get to far in this video but I must say modeling seems interesting but still I want a real Nokia 5800.
Thanks for your sharing!!:) I’m trying to make my mine!:) But I have some problem in process, can you help me to clear it out!
When I’m trying to Insert polygon on the back face like you’ve done
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0kk0opdha5d7CcEtjtAwng?feat=directlink
but this is what I have!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/r8F9p2mQ7wkW8LrCISHgbQ?feat=directlink
Can you help me to explain it?! It take half day of mine!=.=
So what I dont understand is when your extruding the places where the buttons will go, you have that plane on an angle, how are you extruding out on the x straight. My extrude extrudes on an angle.
Please help me to understand if you have a second
nice tutorial…keep it up
valuable information, can you do the same to dell streak?
Hi from Uzbekistan, amazing tut. Thx a lot