Warming Up

My first attempt at modeling for this class was a car that we needed, however when I tried to start that, I had a lot of difficulty.  This was the first time I was modeling with polygons not nurbs, and I wasn't familiar with the differences between the two.  Also, I hadn't done any modeling since my Animation I class two semesters ago.  So, I decided to do something simple that we would probably need: a fire hydrant.  Since the story is going to take place on city streets, there are likely to be a few of these lying around.

My work:

And later, after Greg's texturing: