Thursday, March 31, 2011

Motivational Speech

On wednesday the 30th of march a motivational speaker called action jackson came into the college to motivate us about how to succeed, there were people from allsorts of courses joined in the victoria hall building for shipley college, he spoke about how he started out from not having any A levels thinking he wouldnt get anywere with a BTEC but it can be done because you end up meeting all the people who had A levels in university if you go so basically A levels dont matter you can still succeed as long as you put your mind to it. He also got people from the audience up to the front and made examples of how your mind is the only thing stopping you because you always think when you want to do something you cant for instance he did a memory game to remember all 24 pictures and your mind automatically thinks i cant remember all them but he did a way to memorise to show you that you can do it you just have to believe you can. It was a really good motivational speak and in my opinion a really good way of learning it was fun and it made you believe in yourself more and it did actually motivate you, before i came in to the motivational speach i thought it was going to be boring but it was far from it, Overall i enjoyed it and it motivated me quite abit.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

3d max models progression continued

This is the final image of my model with added textures and enviroments which i made to look like the sea with the sky in the background to make it look better and more realistic. to do this i made a plan at the side and underneath and added the textures on to the planes to make it like this.














After finishing the model i decided to make a fog enviroment to make it look more realistic, to do this i went on rendering, enviroment and under atmosphere i added Volume Fog and changed the density to make it as thick as i wanted it to be.

3D max model screenshots of progress

These are progression screenshots of the process of my boat i have made on 3dmax for the assignment.
i havent got the first bit of the project where i was making the boat but i made a box and transformed it in to the shape i thought was good for a boat by editing the mesh and the vertex's to make it look the way i imagined it and wanted it to look like , Also i extruded bits of polygons in the middle to lower it and tilted in an angle to make the middle section of the boat. then i made a railing for my boat at the front of the boat which you can see from the first screenshot this is what my boat looked like at that point after a lot of work on it.
This is the picture of the model so far from what i have describe prior to this. To get the model this far i first started off by making just a simple box and then extruded and changed the vertex's and polygons to manipulate the object to what i wanted it to look like which was a boat.

This is after i added materials by clicking the m button in 3d max which allows you to make your own material of colours and i came up with these to combine to look like a boat.




Then i added a little bit like a cabin on the boat this is the first bit before i transform it to what i want it to look like i decided to change it a bit from the dip in the middle of it like the first screenshot.







Then this is just the same as the last screenshot but i have changed the colour and material of the cabin.









This is a rendered image with the cabin transformed to how i wanted it by using vertex's i made it how i wanted it to look.








This is an image where i made the floor blue sort of like water but i intend to change this to a better enviroment.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Tutorial - things to do

getting a 15 minute tutorial on 3d max a week because i feel im struggeling slightly.
writing a check list of things to do on 3d max
5 a side football as motivation