Wallace lamp

3docean

Creating a realistic Wallace lamp in Cinema 4D involves several steps to achieve a convincing representation of this iconic light fixture from the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". First, create a new project in Cinema 4D and set your units to inches. Then, go to the 'Create' menu and choose the 'Cube' object. Scale it down to about 10% to serve as the base of the lamp. Next, add a 'Tube' object by going to 'Create' and selecting it. Name this object 'lamp_arm'. Rotate it so that its axis is pointing downwards. Then, scale it down to about half the height of the cube. Now, create another 'Tube' object and name it 'lamp_head'. Scale it smaller than the lamp arm. Position it at the top of the lamp arm. Finally, add a 'Sphere' object for the light globe and position it inside the lamp head. With the objects created, you now need to work on their shapes and textures. For the lamp base, select the cube object and go to its 'Subdivisions' settings. Set the number of subdivisions to about 6 to create a more realistic shape. For the lamp arm and lamp head, set the 'Tube' object's 'Caps' setting to 'None'. Then, in the 'Geometry' tab, select the 'Loop Cut' tool and cut a loop at about one-quarter of the way down from the top of each tube. Next, with the loop cut selected, go to its 'Subdivisions' settings and set it to about 4 or more subdivisions. You can adjust this number based on how detailed you want your lamp arm and head to be. For texturing, add a simple gradient map to the lamp base cube and lamp arm tube objects. For the lamp head, add a texture with some subtle noise applied to give it a more organic look. Lastly, adjust the materials' 'Self Illumination' settings for each object according to your desired brightness level.