Unit 13 Cartman

This is the task we have been asked to do Developing characters based on the work of others so i decided to chose my favourite character from south park called eric cartman and i have drawn sketches of him then put it on photoshop and develop him in a differant way by changing the colours of his clothes. here are the sketches and the finished project. These are the sketches. And this is the finished product i did on photoshop i changed the shoes,pants and the top colour of him.

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.

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.

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

Project, Boat.

In 3d max we had a task first we must draw sketches of something we wanted to do preferably a vehicle so i decided to go with a speedboat which i drew from differant views like front top side views and then worked on making it in 3d max from the skills we have learnt so far. this is my finished product.

I made the boat then added a sea enviroment with the sky as a background to make it look more realistic, i found making this challenging and time consuming but also really fun and makes you feel like you have really achieved something when you finish it especially if you finish it to what you imagined it.

house texture practice

Today in 3d max we have learnt how to use textures and also how to use the UVW mapping on 3d max which is a complicated process its called unwrap UVW and print screened it on to photoshop and made the correct textures we wanted to make on the house after the UVW process on 3d max.

This image below is of the photoshop part i did copied roof and house textures on to the unwraped UVW printscreened on to photoshop and made these textures then saved as a JPEG and opened materials on 3d max by pressing M opening the material editor then adding a bitmap and the photoshop JPEG file i made to copy that material on to 3d max and drag it on to my product which is also below, i learnt all this today which i found to be very helpfull and i found it reasonably understandable.

I also made a background for the house so it looks like its in a field behind.