Egg Splat.

I needed to create an egg splat for when the egg hits the pan, and it needs to read ‘UKTV Food’ so the easiest way for me to do this was to create the text the boolean it from the splat. So firstly I created the text, but I had the problem that some texts wouldn’t let me convert all the letters to editable poly and when I tried to extrude some of the letters would disappear, so I had to find another wide lettered text the one that worked for me and looked clear was the ‘Copper Black’ font.


I then converted the text to an editable poly and extruded it to give it depth

I then created a cylinder and converted it to an editable poly and moved the votives around to get a splat shape,

I then used ‘turbosmooth’ and ‘mesh smooth’ to neaten it up and make the edged smooth

I then added the text to the middle of the splat so it is sticking out, and used the ‘proboolean’ tool to extract it as for some reason normal ‘boolean’ wouldn’t work.

Here is a shot of the rendered egg splat,

I then added a map to the splat to make it look like a real egg, I got the image of an egg from,
http://dailyeatsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/fried-egg.jpg

I added an ‘uvw map’ to the splat to align the map, here is a shot of the finished splat.