Work on 12-19-13

today I worked on my lightsaber the whole time. We had a power outage or something for about 10 mins which delayed me.All I need to do with my lightsaber now is just to render it.

Work on 12-11-13

Today we did some rendering things on a chrome ball and it looks pretty cool to me.They weren't the easiest at first but once I got the hang of it I was pretty good at it.

Work on 12-9-13

Today I worked o the Lightsaber. I started it today since I wasn't here last class. I got the first three parts done in about 10-15 minutes just because I had to read instructions.

work on 12-3-13

Today I worked on a little side project that my friend practically begged me to do and I had nothing else to do so I made it.

Work on 11-20-13

Today I worked on my blog for my iPhone case. I am almost done and need to only do a few more things before I'm completely done with the whole project. Which is good considering I've been working on it for longer than I was originally supposed to be.

Work on 11-18-13

Today I worked on my shapeways project blog. I am almost done with that. There are just a few more things I need to do to finish my whole project completely.

Work on 10-24-13

Today I started to work in the Maya for Games book. It is pretty interesting but I didn't get very far as I am stuck on extruding certain faces.

As you can see, and like I said, I didn't get very far. I am going to try to get as far as I can during fall break.

Work on 10-22-13

Today I worked on my personal project dirt bike track. I think this is going to be really good when I am done with it. I also finished my Phone case, which I decided to change. Its just a white paw on a black case.

Work on 10-18-13

Today I finished making the iPhone. It looks pretty accurate to me. I hope it is accurate. I started the case and got it fitted on the phone mostly. As you can see here....

Work on 10-16-13

Today I stated on modeling the iPhone for my shape ways project. So far it has turned out pretty great. I haven't done much else but I have gotten pretty far.

I think I have gotten it to as close to the exact measurements as I possibly can.

Work on 10-14-13

Today I worked on Autodesk Sketchbook along with the rest of the class. It was pretty fun testing all of the different things out. I made this.

I think it looks pretty cool. It reminds me of army camo a little bit.

Work on 10-10-13

I finished my drawing for my phone case and I am deciding to do a wolf case. But in doing the phone case, I found out I now have to model the iPhone too...this is a little frustrating. Cornell found some youtube videos to help me which should be good. 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+model+an+iphone+case+in+maya&oq=how+to+model+an+iphone+case+in+maya&gs_l=youtube.3...11536.20923.0.21575.39.29.2.8.9.0.58.1007.29.29.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.eNOPgyv7r-Q

Work on 10-8-13

Today I worked on my shapeways project drawings. I pretty much have them all done except for maybe 1 or 2 drawings. I think I will end up doing the wolf case because I love wolves and I might send it into shapeways.com to actually make it so that I have it. The hard part is going to be modeling it in Maya.

Work on 10-4-13

I finished finding my ten pictures for my Shapeways project. I also created a mind map for what I might do on that project. I have chosen to do phone cases. IPhone cases specifically. I have also started drawing my ideas.

Work on 10-2-13

Today I mostly worked on setting up my blog for my shapeways project. I'm still deciding what I am going to do. As you can see I found these rubber looking dice that look pretty cool.I see quite a bit of phone cases and maybe making a Phone case would be pretty interesting.Maybe one with overgrowth from a wolf or a tree with a moon in the background.

Work on 9-30-13

I worked on my storyboard project. I created the blog and I also figured out how to make tabs which is great which I might do for this blog as well. Here is my storyboard blog so far....

Not perfect but it will do for now. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make the posts go under the certain tabs.

Helmet(s) finished

Deformers: Twist and Flare

I used the Twist and Flare Deformers to make this object that looks like cutting blades.

Deformers: Bend and Wave

I used the Bend and Wave Deformers on these objects.

Deformer: Wave

The Wave Deformer makes the object(s) have wave-like tops and bottoms.

Deformer: Twist

The Twist Deformer makes the object(s) twist around in a certain way.

Deformer: Flare

The Flare Deformer makes object(s) look fat or skinny at the top and/or bottom with a fat middle.

Work on 9-26-13

I worked on my helmet today. I ended up completing it. It looks goof but a little deformed from what it is supposed to look like.

I also worked on deformers and I am Just needing to upload the following pictures.

Deformer: Bend

This is the Bend Deformer. This bends the Object(s) to make them bent and deformed.

Finished Helmet(s)

Work on 9-24-13

 

I worked on the helmet and I got far. I got so far to the point I basically have one side done already. I had to have Cornell help me because I apparently skipped a step. That step was to make it all one object so I could bridge it to make the gap between the face cover part and the part that covers the head.

Work on 9-19-13

Today I worked on my helmet and made some small adjustments so that it could work but I am still having trouble with it overall. It also doesn't help that my Maya stopped working in the middle of me working on my helmet. So I decided to work on get started on my SciVis project and as you can see up above, I have created my blogger which is thompsonscivis.blogspot.com.

Work on 9-17-13

I worked on created the helmet again which to me is a very complicated process. It is getting there but it is an annoying and slow process. I am currently working on the jaw cover, I guess you cold say, of the helmet and I am following the instructions but it is very confusing.

 I am going to keep trying my best and asking for help with that and my SciVis project when i have the idea, which I think I do. Farewell and enjoy this post if you like hearing about my work days for whatever reason.

What I did on 9-11-13

I started and ended up finishing the Egg Head project. It was a short but very complicated process. Too many variables for my taste right now.

This is what it ended up looking like in the end. It is not even close to the egg head on the instructions. I'm also starting to work on the helmet project but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. The importing and saving of the pictures is causing me troubles and it is very, very annoying.

Finished Egg Head

Finished Smooth Beveled Edges

Finished Beveled Edges

Finished Salt Shaker

Finished Beveled Blocks Smooth

Finished Beveled 8 cubes showing segments

Finished Cup

Finished Extrude along a Path

Finished Temple

Why I'm in 3D Graphics and Animatioin.

     I am in this class because I want to know how to use programs to make concept arts and 3D concepts for a game company. I love video games and would love to design character and scenery concepts and possibly the one that is going to be used in the game itself. I really don't want to know how to code a game since I am not a coder but I am more of an artist and I think I would be great at designing landscapes, characters, or anything I am asked to do, as long as it has to do with drawing or something of that sort. I would want to be apart of the next team that makes a really big game like Destiny by Bungie or Battlefield 5 by EA. I would love to be apart of a great company who makes great games, that is why I am here.