Assignment 6: 3Ds Max Light Fixture

Four different views of my lighting fixture. Revised my light since I first posted. It looks better now with the dangling strings down the center, and now I just have to put it on a cd for friday.

Weekly Blog: October 19th-23rd

I'm really glad that the dealine for the next assignment was delayed to this Friday instead of the 23rd. I've been able to spend a good amount of time this weekend working on my light.

My sketch this week is of a Kobalt, from a board game I'm playing right now with my dad and cousin. It's called Descent, and it is sort of a rip off of Dungeons and Dragons (okay, an overt rip off, but what dungeon crawler isn't.) I think of this monster as sort of a mini-hulk, although in the game they are very weak.

These are renderings of my first light fixture that I attempted for Assignment 6. It looks okay, but I think my next light is a lot better. I'm not turning this in for my assignment, but I thought that it's a good blog entry for my progress in 3ds.

My final entry this week is an inspirational lighting fixture that I found when I was looking online. It is from this site: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/09/12/airluce-devastatingly-modern-lighting/
This light reminded me of a jellyfish in that the way the light reflects from the center and lights up all of the legs. I had no idea that there were such interesting lights out there.

Weekly Blog: October 12th-16th

Over the weekend, I've been trying to model with 3ds, and here are two of my attempts before I try to model my lighting fixture for the next assignment.

This is my very first modeling attempt. I really don't know what it is, so I don't expect you to know either. I was just trying to play with shadows and basic shapes without becoming too frustrated.

This is my next attempt at modeling. I followed a tutorial from this site.

http://www.escalight.com/tutorials/3dsmax-tutorials/modeling-a-snail-part-1.html

Though it was using an older version of 3Ds max, so I had to find some of the tools that they were explaining. It didn't turn out that bad, though it was troubling trying to apply the texture.

I still have to add the pupils to the slug. The turtorial only shows how to model the slug, and not to add textures or anything beyond modeling the thing.

This is a sketch of Max and Carol from Where the Wild Things Are. The new movie came out this weekend, so I was inspired to do the sketch. The movie was really great, and I paid more attention to the lighting in the movie. The light was amazing. It was also interesting to me the way they did the special effects. The wild things were played by people in suits, but their faces were animated. Their techniques were amazing, and it's worthwile to see the movie.

Weekly Blog: October 5th-9th

This is a sketch of a guy watching a movie in a theatre. I tried a new perspective on the guys head, because we are starting 3Ds max next week indepth. I can say for once I'm glad that I'm a pc user, just for the fact that I only have to download 3Ds max and nothing else to make it work.





Speaking of modeling and rendering, this amazing joker render is from a site called creative uncut. It has galleries from recent video games, and this render is from Arkham Asylum. You can find the website here: http://www.creativeuncut.com/index.html I don't want to do animations for video games (I want to work with movies), but I found this artwork for Arkham Asylum really amazing.

Since we are actually starting 3Ds max, I decided to look up some tutorials for it.

http://www.3dstudiomaxtutorials.com/

The name pretty much says it. No, I didn't make up the name of the website, that is the correct url. It has some nice tutorials, but it seems like you need to have some prior experience with the program.

http://www.maxbasics.com/

I think that this website is good for beginners like I am with the program. It has some pretty basic tutorials with is good for someone with no experience except messing aroud with it over a weekend.

Assignment 5: Red Blue Chair

This assignment was to model the Red and Blue chair using Sketchup. Here are three different views of my model. This was my first time working with any kind of 3d program, and while it had its issues, (I had to use Ctrl z a whole lot) it was pretty easy to work with once to get the hang of it. What really helped me was creating lots of layers and locking lots of layers.

Weekly Blog: September 28th - October 2nd

This weeks sketch is of a praying mantis. I was inspired to sketch one when I was going to work this week. I found one on my car's tire (trying to blend in). I had to knock it off with a stick so I wouldn't run over it.

I was really inspired by the presentation this week. I never knew that Albuquerque had a branch of Sony Pictures Animation, and it would be amazing to work for a company like that. That being said, I found some really inspiring animations this week.



This is an animation that my French teacher actually showed us. It is by aniboom.com, and I love the style of the animation. The colors are amazing, but what really caught my attention was the lighting. It is really stunning.



This 3d model of an alien is from an artist named Peter Zoppi who works in Los Angeles. His stuff is really amazing, and his kind of modeling and animation is exactly what I want to do in my career. This website is http://www.zopfx.com/index.html.