The last day....

Well today is the last day I will be in this class.  Depending on what happens in course scheduling I may or may not end back up here.  We will see.  Today I finished all of the material and rendering.  I feel really good about the chrome I have.

FINAL Lightsaber

Last Day before finals

Today I applied all of the materials to the light saber.  I am currently adding lights to the project and will then fine edit the materials.

Just a few less than more days left

Today I finished the power box on the lightsaber adding the screws and additional boxes into the main box.  I then moved on to the actual saber part.  I created the saber and made it smooth into what actually looks like a saber by inserting the edge loop.  Now I have to perfect the materials across the lightsaber to finish it.

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Seniors Graduate Soon

Today we received instructions on an effective way to complete the power box.  I finished everything on it except for the fine parts of it on the side, like the triangles and two mini boxes.

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Deja vu.  The fire alarm went off again today and almost went off a second time later.  It brought back memories of the other day about a month ago that this happened.  But today I finished the nubs and attempted to begin the control unit.

Finals are coming up

I finished the body of the lightsaber, except for the power cells and the activation plate.  The rest of the light saber looks pretty solid and was made with little difficulty.

Just a few more days

Today was a lot of working on the basic design of the lightsaber.  We continued at a much faster rate to finish the body of the lightsaber.  I experienced much frustration at the end when I was trying to get the duplicated hand grip to line up just right.

Lightsaber Reference Pictures

Judgement day was a little bit ago

Today we were able to apply what we learned last class to our helmet.  We gave the helmet mesh a cloth look and gave the front grills, some well grills.  After that I touched up on the color combinations that I was using.  The green and blue wasn't working as well, so I changed the green to a lighter blue.

FINAL Helmet

Fire alarm day

We made a ball of cloth today.  It was quite a new experience when we saw how to make blinns look like actual materials.

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51st Post!!

Today we worked on adding another layer to our helmet.  It was interesting to see how to go about adding a material inside of the helmet by hiding everything and duplicating the helmet.

Helmet

Today was a really touch up day.  We went over the real specifics of what to do to really make your object or product look good through lighting.

Helmet Finish up Day

Today I worked on finished up the final specs of the helmet.  All of it was about the color of it.  However mid way through the process my Maya crashed and I was forced to restart back before any color or lights had been applied or made.

Easter In a Few

Today I was able to finish up my helmet and mirror it to the other side.  I am now trying to improve it my adding a material that will cause it to look metal like.

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I was able to figure out what was wrong with my original helmet.  I had not deleted the faces that look toward the inside of the mask in the mouth piece.  That was preventing me from bridging correctly.  I just finished adding the face plate on and touching up on the helmets overall smoothness.

Today!!

I started off by trying to finish my helmet.  However I quickly ran into technical difficulties and my computer stopped working.  Glad that I will be able to start over the helmet to perfect what I had previously done.

Digital Art Show

At the beginning of class we headed over to the IB Digital Art Show.  There were quite a few of Maya creations that I noticed.  After returning to class we continued to work on our Helmet.  I am right around the part where the front of face mask is being added on, and the nose piece was just brought up.

T+2 Days After Spring Break

We started the helmet today.  It is quite a complex project, but does appear to have a result that is satisfying.  I am just now adding the chin piece and hope to get much farther next class.

Asset Day

We went to the Asset Day Presentation.  It was about a woman that had had many unfortunate events occur in her life.  But it was all in the idea of building a stronger "unshakable character."

DONE Texturing

Here is the textured box of quackers!

4/6/11

Texturing was the focus today.  We practiced by making a box of crackers with a pre-made texture.  We then edited what would show up on each side and moved it around until it fitted the box.

4/4/11

Today was a catchup day for those that were not done with the previous projects.  I started to work on a tennis ball shooter and got the animation to shoot it out before deciding what I wanted in the animation.

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The triangle made by the hour and minute hands draws the attention to the back while at the same time drawing attention to the other side, to the 4, because of its emense size.

The harsh lines of the bottom of the dresser cause the attention to be drawn to the bottom of the picture. The blurriness of the rest of the picture helps keep the attention towards the bottom.

The slight curves against a much darker background give the leaf a new feel and a new look.

The linear movement to the top right of the picture gives it an interesting form.

This picture allows the viewer to wonder what they are seeing, but also see it in many different focuses.  Going across the image, the object enters and leaves focus.

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