Modeling - Poker Chips

Poker Chip Model

Here shows my model of a poker chip with a bitmap used from an online source to get a realistic look for the model. I wanted to assign my own materials to the other sections of the chip to get a feel of different textures – similar to how a real poker chip would look like without the need for using bitmaps for the entire model.

I found that when assigning the same material to the rear facing side of the poker chip the bitmap I had used felt the need to mirror the image on the opposing side. I just allocated a new material flipping the image in photoshop and assigning the ‘new’ bitmap to the back of the chip. I selected a red material and a black rubber-like material for the rest of the chip to correspond with the inner bitmap. On looking at the chip I felt that the red was very flat and looked rather less than realistic so I looked online for examples of poker chips and found quite a few with holographic decals which I decided to use to give a different texture to that of the black ‘rubber’.

Although I was relatively happy with the look and style of my poker chip model it did look a little bare around the edges. To add some more embellishment to the chip I decided to add dice markings similar to those I had seen on real poker chips. I felt this gave the model a little something extra that was missing before.

An example of the finished red chip, which looked rather flat and unrealistic.

Here is my poker chip after I had changed the red material to an attempt at a holographic material. I chose the gold colour to be in keeping with the colour palette and think it looks much better than it did previously. With more time I would probably try to create a few different valued chips for a more intricate and satisfying look to the scene, although being limited with time I decided to work on the actual movements that would be seen!

The holographic chips stacked, ready for play.

Here I created some cards to adorn my poker table – how do you play poker without cards? I did this by creating a plane and adding a bitmap via the materials editor to give a realistic look. I made sure that the deck of cards said ‘Casino Royale’ of the back so that during the animation the audience may glimpse them and be reminded of the films title for which the trailer is for.