Croutons

I needed to create croutons as these will be added to the soup and used to spell out 'UKTV FOOD' at the end of the scene.

To create the croutons I created a box with lots of segments for height, width and depth, I then converted it to an editable poly,


I then used the move tool and the vertices selection to click and drag points of the box in to make it look indented and misshaped like a real crouton,


Once I was happy with the shape I added ‘turbosmooth’ and ‘meshsmooth’ modifiers to it to make it look smoother



I then wanted to add a material to the crouton to make it look legitimate, so I looked for a image of toast to add as the bump map and diffuse colour, this is the toast map I used - http://endingb.com/images/toast.png, here is a shot of the finished crouton.

At the end of the scene for this ident I want the camera to come above the soup and have a birds eye view above it looking down on the croutons spelling out the word ‘UKTV Food’ so I had to create the shape of the letters using the croutons, to do this I cloned the croutons and moved them into shape.