3D Max 10/11/2010

Today in 3d max we learnt further skills, such as learning to duplicate the object you are making in this case i made a spaceship by making a box then highlighting the side polygons and removing them from the side so it is like a half box type thing, then copied it by holding down the shift key then changing it from copy to instance so whatever you do to one side happens to the other side of the box, you keep them both seperate then you do the alterations needed until you are happy with your product.
Then when you are happy with the side of the spaceship you are working on you put them together click attach on the right menu so that it is joint as one object so you can use editable mesh to change the polygons right in the middle of both so that its fully one joint product. I dont have a picture of my product because i saved it but it didnt save for some reason.

Evaluation

Over the first 6 weeks being here at college in Mel's lessons we have been planning the desktop project, first we thought of our ideas made 4 different ideas on an A3 piece of paper and chose the one we thought was the best idea or design, I chose this one because it was by far the best idea i thought of and i love dragons so i decided to use it we then had to take a photo of the design and do a lot of tweaks to the design until you think its ready. the only thing i would change if i could is 2 of the rules are just going behind the taskbar and because i havent saved the final design in photoshop only in JPEG i cant change this.

Does the end product match your original intentions?

this is my original sketch of my idea this was before i uploaded it onto the computer, i drew it on paper then added a lot of things to it before it was finished i uploaded it to the computer then used many photo shop tools to colour this in and add my finishing touches, The finished product matches my original intentions i added a few other things like the fire, the colours and other things though.

This is my finished project with everything added including the shipley college logo, media suite and the 6 rules we chose as a group that were most important to follow. I put the icons around the fire like an aura and used different brushes to make the smoke in the background and then another brush for the effects around the fire.




Was the end product appropriate for which audience it was intended to?

The end product was appropriate for who i intended it to be for i think, this was for both genders and ages 12 + in my opinion this fits that apart from the fact its probably more likeable for males than females, it isn't offensive in any way so it has no abusive or harmful content in it, the only bit of content is the blood on the teeth.




Discuss the technical aspects of your work and highlight the strengths / areas to develop Demonstrate your knowledge of the program [P.Shop/Flash/S.Mx] you used & include 'subject terminology' - did you use online tutorials? download fonts/brushes/textures - if so, say how you did this & why, what effect did this have on your work etc. What equipment did you use, d.camera, scanner, pencils, pastels etc.Discuss the content / style of your work - ideally this should relate to your research**
During creating my product i did a lot of work on it from drawing it which took quite a lot of time and concentration to everything i did in photo shop to make it better which i have explained earlier in this blog but also I used a filter, in artistic the poster edges to make it more comic book style because this is what i intended to do i changed my mind after photoshoping the project a bit because i decided it looks better as a comic book style.
Also I used fonts from 1001fonts to get my fonts i used in my project it had a good effect and made it less dull rather than just plain fonts, The equipment i used at first was a scanner but the quality wasn't good enough so i decided to use a camera from the library which was much better quality then i uploaded it using the memory card from the camera.


Did you encounter any problems when creating the product? If so how were they resolved?**What have you learnt from this experience?**What skills have been developed throughout this process?**Did you meet the deadline?**Did you have any problems with time management?
I encountered a few problems in photo shop like trying to make the neck longer but i decided it was fine as it is so besides that everything went fine, I have learnt from this experience a lot more photo shop skills. I just made the deadline but the time management was fine.

3D Max Name & Animation

Today in 3d max we have learned how to write our names in 3D and apply a large variety of textures, it was quite a simple thing to do, First of all you click the create button and instead of being on geometry you click on the shapes on the right of that, Then click on splines then text and write in the text you wish to put below.



When you have written the text you want to make it into a 3D text you must go on modify you then right click were it says text and convert into an editable mesh then click polygons and highlight the whole text then extrude as far as you want it to be to make it 3D then you can click the "m" key on your keyboard to go to material editor to change the colours of the text.



With the material editor I changed a lot of things with my text i went on to diffuse which is the colour you can change that and the specular level and glossiness to make the colour a bit better then you can click the little box next to the diffuse which is where you can change multiple things. there are various different styles to choose from i chose the planet button and played about with all the colours to get it to what i have now which i think is a very good text.





As you can see there are many different colours all mixed in this text in fact there are 8 different colours mixed into this and there all different shades/colours which gives it this effect i think its very fancy and my sort of style i only did two texts because i took alot of time doing this text to the best i could get it to my image.







This text is a lot more simple i used the marble texture for this and then changed the vein width of this and made the lines thinner and more of them so its aqua with red lines through its simple but effective and i think its good.


After we did the text we learnt how to do animation you have to click auto key and highlight the object you want to move to make it animate so i made my text move around circle and go smaller and larger and made a simple animation then rendered this short seconds movie and saved it, Below is the video i made.

Then we did another animation which i made my car move and the ball bouncing as well as this to make two things in one animation the ball bounces off the car.

Finished Desktop Project

This is my finished desktop that ive done it took me a long time to get to this point i first drew the design of this dragon on paper the concept of it i then added the flames later on deciding it would be a good touch and add a little uniqueness to the design.
After this i shaded in the bits like the mouth shaded in the horns and neccisary bits, Then i photographed the piece of paper i drew on then transfered it to the computer and opened it on photoshop to tweek things on it.
I coloured it in in differant shades some brighter green whilst other bits duller whilst the flame being light orange to dark orange. the tongue is also purple and the teeth has red in the tips of some of the teeth which is meant to be blood, I found a decent brush on photoshop for the background smoke style and another sparks one around the flames.
I then made it poster edges made the thickness to the top and other things to make it more detailed and thicker edges and made it look alot more like a comic book style because i love this style, it looks amazing i like the style so i chose to make it look more like a comic book. I then got my fonts from 1001 fonts for the media suite which i placed into the flames of the dragon.
After this i got another font for all the college regulations, Then copied the shipley college logo and placed it under the dragon on the bottom left, placed the icons around the fire like an aura.
I think that my desktop project came out really good infact probably better than i thought it would i think its appropriate for the age and gender and has no offensive content in this and has nothing inappropriate.

3D Max 13/10/10

We do 3d max tutorials every wednesday of the week at college and we learn new things each time getting abit more experiance each time this week we had to transform just a simple box into a car it took alot of tweeking but it was possible to do, we first converted the box into an editable mesh after making edges faces we then used the vertex's to change some of the points on the box to make it invert into the side to make more use of the box to make it look more like a car.
Then some of the polygons i moved them up and down until i felt that it looked what i wanted it to look like it took a little tweeking to do but eventually got it to my standard i wanted it to be at. below is the picture of the finished product i did on 3dmax this week.








This is a proffesional version of the 3d car model lamborghini i tried to create mine was nowere near as good as this but i gave it a try i need more experiance on 3dmax before i can do something nearly as good as this. i have now decided that my creation is more like a hummer so im going for that instead.

Logos

This is the logo for god of war i think it is a really attractive logo bright colours appealing for the end of a trailer for the game with the dark clouds in the background also to make it more of a gloomy atmosphere its overall a brilliant logo.

This is the logo for the famous designer of clothes giorgio armani, this is a brilliant logo you can tell its been photoshopped, its also mirrored and reflected so you can see the name asif its reflecting too which is an amazing effect to have.

This is the logo for the newest halo game, Halo Reach which has sold millions world wide, i like this logo because it fits in with the atmosphere of the game which is a sci-fi game basically because it is set on a differant planet than earth, i love the effects in this logo the way it fades and the glowing edges makes it look a very clean and more than presentable logo.

Graphic Styles I Like

This is from heroes the TV show but they have created a graphic novel about it because the show was so successful they made more this to make more money from it, i love this graphic style its very realistic looks like they have used pastels and chalk, it has come out brilliantly but i do like this style quite alot.

This is from a comic book it is similar to the project im working on at the moment for my desktop background which is comic style and this is what i will be aiming for this kind of style of design i like the bright colours involved in it

Desktop Backgrounds

These are my 4 original ideas for my desktop background that i will create we have drawn 4 initial ideas we think would be good ideas and in the end choose 1 main idea to use for your desktop background and enhance it.

1.The first design on the top left is a dragon i have drawn as details as i can with flames coming from his mouth inside the flames will have media suite in it, and the picture will take up a reasonable amount of room on the desktop with the shipley college logo being in the top right and the icons at the left hand side or possibly used for the scales on the dragon.

2. The second design is on the top right which is a sword i have drawn this is more simple than the design before it is a magical sword and there is an aura around the sword and the icons are surrounding the sword which would be the icons.

3. The third design is another simple design which is a race track from formula one not as well detailed as that because i dont think i would use this idea other the other 3 , i would use the icons as the cars as a birds eye view.

4. The Forth design is a pacman map but not as detailed as the actual official pacman map but its just like it, ive done this as like pacman in the map with some ghosts and the icons are what pacman eats to get points.

The Idea i will chose is the first idea with the dragon in it i will photoshop it some more so its more detailed and looks alot better.

Example Of Rollover Button

This is a picture of allsorts of differant types of rollover buttons i like pretty much all of them they have nice colours,effects and stand out very well hopefully soon ill be able to make one myself like these.

3D Design villa

First we drew a building that we found interesting that we liked i drew a exotic villa for my design earlier in the lesson then later in the lesson using my new skills on 3d max "box modelling" i created my villa that i drew earlier in the day i didnt get much time to complete it so i only had a little bit of it done but i tried my hardest to create it if i had more time i could of improved it alot but we had limited time.

This is the picture that i drew my drawing from on paper but added my own touch of putting a pool on 3d max instead to make it even better although this is surrounded by a lake it would be abit hard to do that so i decided to alter it and make it my own.

3D Castle Box Modelling

Today in lesson we started to learn how to use the skill called "box modelling" we created a castle using a mixture of the the tools in 3dmax we learned how to make the objects into an editable mesh so we can play around with what we made a little bit so you can make it extrue etc and make things bend more to make them look more like the actual object you intend it to be.

I found it quite complex but it was still pretty straight forward at the same time ive learned new skills today in 3dmax and i hope to learn more in the future which we will be, i think ive advanced quite a bit in 3dmax thanks to this lesson this is the castle i created on 3dmax today.




I think this is a pretty good example of a castle but if i had more time i could of put more detail into it and found a way to make a better gate or some windows just more detail alltogether but we had a limited time and were just learning the basics of box modelling so didnt get enough time to but maybe will do in the future.



This picture on the left is a picture of a professional castle 3D this is alot more advanced detailed and overall better than my model because im not that good at 3d max yet but im hoping i will gain more skills in it so i can try to create something similar maybe not as good because its professional but as good as i can possibly do it to my abilities.

Mind Map

This is my mind map i used powerpoint because mindmeister was not working for me, this is what i plan to be in my desktop project the image is quite small but its basically saying its for all ages and it will not have any harmfull or abusive content in it also ill include the shipley college logo and media suite so it will represent it,
Also with 22 icons which is how many there is currently on the desktop the 6 college regulations we all chose as a group that were most important to obey in college were the following:
1. Attend classes,regularly,on time and explain any abscense to you course/personal tutor.
2. Apply yourself seriously to your studies and hand in coursework when your tutor asks for it.
3. Respect college buildings and property. immediatley report any unsafe conditions to member of staff.
4.Carry your student identity card at all times.
5. Not do or say anything which may offend other people,particularly because of their age,belief,culture,different abilities and disabilites,economic status,gender,race,religion or sexual orientation.
6.Any forms of misconduct and serious misconduct are considered a failure to follow college regulations.

3D Character Model

Today we drew a character from our imaginations earlier in the day we had to draw our ideas on paper i drew a ninja but simple its the first thing that came to my mind, Its something i am interested in i think there awesome i drew it simply because we are just starting on 3dmax and thats what we were supposed to do first a drawing what i would be able to copy on 3d max this is what i ended up making in 3d max.

3D Modelling Done This Lesson

Today we learnt more about 3d max and what to do in it we made a robot out of standard and abit more advanced objects like i used a box for the head and body and used hose's in the more advanced objects for arms, legs,neck and added a personal touch of antenas. the robot i did is shown below i learnt to do alot more on 3d max and feel more comfortable using it than last time and im looking forward to finding out what else you can do on it later on.

Unit 19 Desktop Collage

Unit 19 Desktop Collage


This is what we have done so far to start off the games course we made a genre collage there are 4 differant genres we covered which were War,Fantasy,Sci-fi and Horror, we cut out pictures that represented these genres from magazines such as edge and allsorts of others, i overlapped most of my pictures to make it look better and tried to cover most of the paper.

Sci fi - Usually set in space and involves spaceships, aliens and other things based in sci fi
Fantasy- This is basically make believe stuff that comes from our minds things that can only be made true through our minds or games and movies for example. I have things like final fantasy on my collage to represent this.
Horror - This is to scare your brains out make you wonder whats next and make you be on the edge of your seat waiting to be made jump, For my collage for horror i have bioshock and some other pictures from films out of photoshop magazine.
War- War is all about people fighting for there beliefs it involves guns,tanks,ships, airplanes anything that can be used as a weapon people fight for there rights and country.

I used for horror pictures that i found would frighten people and get them on the edge of there seats like bioshock was one and a scene from spiderman, For fantasy i used things such as dynasty warriors, final fantasy and beowulf i thought these represented these well, For Sci-fi i have a picture of a big moon , a part of a spaceship, games like asteroids things that are obvious to this genre these represent sci fi very well in my opinion.
Lastly for war i had far cry, call of duty, gears of war the big war games of these days that are clearly war games and most people that play games would know this. In my opinion most games cross-genre for instance gears of war could be classes as a horror aswell as a war game

3D Models Of Devil May Cry 4

these are a few 3d models from devil may cry which is a fantastic game with brilliant physics and graphics. two of the characters are dante differant models and outfits you unlock during the game one is devil dante and the other is just a fancy sort of outfit type thing, devil may cry 4 is a hack and slash game thats dante whos hunting demons and trying to save the word, Devil May Cry 4 immerses gamers in a gothic supernatural world, where a new protagonist clashes with a familiar hero. As the new leading man, Nero, players will unleash incredible attacks and non-stop combos using a unique new gameplay mechanic, his powerful "Devil Bringer" arm.
With the advanced graphical capabilities of the next-gen systems, high definition visuals and intricate detail come to life as players explore new and exotic locales. Dynamic action and undeniable style combine with explosive fighting options and a gripping story to produce the incomparable experience that only a Devil May Cry game can deliver.
I think these 3d models are very well detailed especially the completed versions below and there is the progress of one of the models above which is good showing you progression of the character.

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What ive done this lesson.

What i did this lesson was learn how to use 3d studio max software and made an adbstract scene i created sort of a city in it and here is a picture of what i did using only the objects that are on the right side of the page on 3d max which are pyramids cylinders boxes etc, i enjoyed doing this it was fun to do you have to use your imagination with this.

One of my favourite games

One of my favourite games is GRID from codemasters its an amazing games with good physics, graphics and realism its a racing game that has many tracks to choose from to play on, it has online multiplayer which you can play up to 11 other players which is 12 people including yourself which is a big online its great for playing with your friends you can ram into them take them off the track have a laugh and have fun or you can take off rams and have a serious race so it has abit of seriousness and comedy in it also it has tense moments when you can see the person behind you gaining on you.

There is also a good career mode where you have to work your way up its packed with the most powerful race cars new and classic,circuit,drift allsorts, players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races, you play in europe, japan or U.S japan is drift specified while the other two are more races there are differant cars in each continent based on where the cars were actually made.

This image is of grid, i got it from http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/766/grid_thumb.jpg.

Games course

This is my blog i am going to showcase my work as i progress through the course which is BND Games Development im intending to pass this course hopefully and maybe go to university to do further education if i do well enough to get in if not i will go get a job preferably in the games or media industry.