week 11

week 11 and were almost at an end. I'm happy with my idea of the children's toys, today i made a bottle which is a pig and a little crayon character, still to come i think im going to try to make and ice cream toy, and a little clown thing. Im flowin with modeler now but im not stretching my limits, im trying to keep it simple so i don't stuff anything up. i have the program at home so i can work on my models at home aswell, so all will be good by week 12.

week10

Im still very confused as to what to make, deciding what to do in these situations is always the hardest. I got a new mac over the holidays and got lightwave today so i don't need to stress so much over the next 2 weeks as i can work on it at home, 2 weeks rather that 2 classes is heaps more time. Im pretty sure i want to make some sort of children's toy, as it was my nephews birthday over the holidays and he also has a new little sister. So with kids on the mind i've been looking at toys and stuff quite a bit recently. I want to have a bit of a street art or graffiti theme behind the toy, keep it simple so i may be able to make more than one, make it cartoonie, maybe pastley colours to appeal to little children, and a recognizable figure like a rabbit, dog or elephant. If i have time i could then maybe place them all in a little cartoon scene like a pleasant looking park.

week9

I dont know what happened this day i may have missed clarse.

week 8

I didn't really do much today i had a go at animating a camera through my kitchen scene dut the image was to big and it closed on me. I felt pretty sick today so other than just playing around on modeler and lightwave i just looked at 3d models on the internet, finding out that some of the things people make are hard to tell apart from the real thing. I had a little bit of a think about what im going to make for my final project, i have decide that i dont really want to make something really lifelike with lots of textures and that, but maybe design a simple yet fun looking character, which would look good as a 3d character, im thinking bright solid colours, maybe a real cartoony looking character which looks a bit street art.

Week7

Week 7 the due date wasn't to sure i would finish it but i did, but i had to get the jist of lightwave in like 10 mins. I think with just a little more playing around on lightwave i will get the hang of the idea of all the lights and where to place them all to create the day and night scenes. I am happy with my progress in this class and think i should be able to create something good for the next project. I still need to get more practice with lightwave, to get the hang of it better. I also think that by using lightwave it will help me understand the idea of lighting, for when i take photos and make movies.

I don't believe that my kitchen is all that surreal, but i think the textures make it a bit more surreal than it is. I'm pretty happy with the final product, all my hard work in class in class has paid off. Haven't really put much thought into what im going to make for my final project but im sure it will be fantastic whatever it is.

week6

Todays class was very productive, my kitchen is looking like a kitchen now, but alas it need to be a surreal kitchen. It looks too normal, some of the things in it my be a bit out of place but not surreal, i think i will have to rely on the lighting and textures to make it surreal.
Im feeling more confident with the program now and am experimenting with things to see what they do. sometimes i draw a blank as to how to make something but after looking a a few pictures i get a good idea on how to make something.
Today i made a fridge, oven, hoods, stove top and a tap. They all look pretty generic, i had an idea of making a cone fridge but there was to much thinking with how to put the door on so i scraped that idea. I think im most happy today with my stove top and there hoods. I have started to put my other objects in the kitchen, and arranging them into nice places, ive got my soda syphon on the table at the moment and the teapot in the corner. All i really have to do now is put a few more objects in then put it into lightwave. Im a bit iffy on lightwave and i hope i have enough time to finish it all.

week5

Todays class we just worked on our kitchens. I got my bench, walls, cupboards and draws done today, im happy with my progress today as the kitchen is starting to take shape. I also made a table and a chair, judging by the colours i have used the kitchen is going to look very colourful. The tools i used today were rather simple but im getting the hang of using them all. I used Buleen, bevel, magic bevel and i added colours and textures to some of my objects. I like using the bevel tool i think its real handy and makes creating objects easy to create.