A Chessboard and Pieces

I'm in-between things right now and wanted to build something small and manageable. I settled on a chessboard and pieces since I wanted to donate the model for general use and I hadn't seen one for free.

Pretty much built in a evening. Rotoed a picture of a chess set and set to modeling. The horse is a bit funky and the bishop has some spline weirdness in the slot in the head that I didn't go back and correct. It wasn't obvious to me how to model around it properly, so I moved on.

Below is a thumbnail for the image which links to a larger version

Some facts:

• A simple material for the marble pieces
• A slightly odd one for the wood
• No real material on the pieces
• Spec/Diff maps on the wood and marble, Bump on the wood
• Simple three light choreography
• Roughly 1800 patches on the board, 350 or so per piece (x5 pieces)

You can find a copy of it for general use at http://www.AnimationPitstop.com/