Ever notice how everybody fusses with chess sets? Well I thought it would be fun to make my own. Here's the result. 1 hour, 37 minutes, COMPLETELY from scratch (modeling time only). Rendering was another 30 minutes because I'm picky and it takes a while to get stuff set up the way I like it. Let's see what other people have! -Kix

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Another view.

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And a final view. -Kix

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Cheezz! I do not even have an analog chess set in the house. I should be ashamed of myself. I think I want to do one, but then a re-invention of it. Every 3D lover has to do a chess set at least once in his or her life, I think.

Followed by the sad robot. :) Great set, Kix!

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=938557

You're right Hoof, every 3D lover should do a chess set. This was surprisingly satisfying, thanks for the challenge Kix.

There's an odd angle render of this in my gallery on the link attached.

Scott

A closer look at the pieces

Nice. I want one.

Very cool!

Oooh, Modernistic (or maybe those would be postmodernistic) chess pieces. Love those, they have a lot of funk, they stay simple like the classic ones, while having some very funky shapes. Love them... ;)

That image is now my first Hot 20 hit in 4 years at Renderosity !

Kixim, small problem with your set. King and queen are in the wrong place and they are lined up on the wrong side. Ok, being fussy. Both look good. Sdnobles looks very elegant. Sdnoble, how did the close up switch the king and queen? Yet it's fine in the first render. Still working on mine. Never made a chess set before in 3D. I guess it's about time. Is there a time limit of 30 min? If so I've blown it easily. :P

I rendered the close-up first and realised I had it wrong......

No time limits, just fun! Awesome chess set up there! Nice render. I did notice that I have my King and Queen reversed after I posted. Good catch! Keep em coming! -Kix

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May addition to the chess set chest. Pretty fun task. Took about a day to model. Rendering a close up at the moment.

Excellent!

Very funky mix of abstract and futuristic. I especially like the mechanical feel of the board and the consistency in style on the pieces.

da close up.

Everything done with the vertex modeller. Some simple boolean subtraction for some parts but most are actually quick and dirty modelled. Meaning, I didn't bother to make them perfect; the black rook for instance, there are actually a couple of pipes intersecting itself instead of one clean mesh. You'd probably see that if I made the solid glass or something.

A bit of a shame you don't seem much of the tressle work under the board. Ah well. Small part of the whole anyway.

But man, those tiny screews on the corner really slowed the render down. :/

Message edited on: 04/25/2005 18:05

These chess sets are astounding designs. I am really impressed! I won't even attempt this challenge!

Hmm, I really want to do something like this... Just have to come up with a style... But are we supposed to use Carrara or Amapi and Carrara? ;)

Any and all of the above!

I'm making a shareware chess game that will support 16 players on the same board and am looking for interesting chess sets. Is anyone here willing to donate their chess sets in return for named credit (including website or email)?

Reply ---> tlwitness@yahoo.com

Thanks,

Jerry