Firstly Ameet and I decided what we would draw between us, I chose to design the hospital beds, sheets, curtains, pillows, wheels, heartbeat monitor, pipes, radiators, folders and any other objects that will need to be designed to fit into our level to make it seem more realistic.
Firstly I got started on the Hospital bed, I went on to google and found images of what I though hospital beds looked like. I didn't know what type of hospital bed we would need, whether it was an old style one or a more modern bed. I asked my group and the feedback was that we were making a more modern hospital. This allowed me to go through the images on google and choose which design would be most suitable.
The bed I created has thick plastic boards at the top, bottom and either side and wheels, as it is one of the mobile beds that can be moved to surgery.
This is the hospital bed from a front on view, as you can see I've added some detail and done the table that comes over the top of it where the patients usually rest their food or drinks and medicine. I found a few images with these sorts of trays in them and they were all from a recent time so I included it in my design.
This is the hospital bed from a side view, I have put this photo up so the side parts of my bed can be seen better, as you can see there are two handles either side of the bed. This is for porters and nurses to move the bed whilst the patient is still in it as modern beds are all transportable now.
This is a close up of the wheels to my bed, I spent a lot of time creating and rotating cylinders to make the wheels, I started off using just one but it didn't give it the more detailed look that I wanted.
Next I had to create the heartbeat monitor, This proved challenging to find reference so I had to take a lot from different images that have all been added to this mood board that i've created. The heartbeat monitor is quite simple in the design and i started from just making a cube and slowly adding small details to it such as the screen, dials and wires coming out of the side of it. The tubes proved difficult to create as it was something that I had never done before but after a little researching on youtube I found out how to create them though I am struggling to find a clear texture that would suit them so they may have to be opaque.
This is the heartbeat monitor that is going to be put into our game, I havant yet created the wires as I was going to do that once I had decided on a texture for the monitor.
As you can see I've kept the designs simple yet realistic because I dont want to put too much detail in and cause the game to lag.
This is the bedside cabinet that I created for the hospital, This is usually next to the patients bed where their medicine and personal belongings can be stored.
Next up was the radiators for the hospitals, I did just create one radiator and copied the design for it to be placed about the hospital, as radiators are out the way I only made one variation of it to be spread out around the hospital.
This is the style radiator that i've gone for, it's simple yet effective and the shading should help make it look a lot more realistic than the other flat designs that I chose to ignore.
Next I made all the folders and files that patients would have attatched to the bottom of the bed, the notes that they have for the docotors to look at. As well as this I created the bedside cabinets near the patients bed that usually store medicine.
The next part and the hardest for me, was the hospital curtains, I really struggled with making the curtains but Simon showed me a good trick to get them to the shape that you need, to make them appear as if they're hanging and bunched up, rather than perfectly straight and flat. I do wonder how hard texturing this is going to be because of the shape of the curtain.
To create the wheels on the hospital bed I mainly used two tools, The shape and size tools and used them on cubes and cylinders to get the right shape for the legs on the bed and the size of the wheels on it. The texture that I'm going to be applying will be the backboard and bottom of the bed will be made of plastic and the bottom where the legs are will be made of metal along with the wheels.
For the radiators they're going to be white and more of an old fashioned style as I can do more creating them than the new flat designs that they have.
