Today, I have finished my pencil project in 3D animation. It is very beautiful to look at, but here are the steps I took, to create this. First, I made the pencil, by creating a cylinder and making the famous hexagon shape, then I made another cylinder and added a cone in it to make a boole. Then I added it to the pencil to give it the sharpened look. Then I extended it and cut it in half. Then I made the graphite tip with a graphite color. I then added a wood texture to the pencil to make it look like, it was sharpened. I then painted it a sand green. I then made the eraser by making a cylinder and making it slightly rounded. I then added the iconic pink color to the eraser. I then made the ferrule, which is the gold part that connects the eraser to the pencil. I connected the eraser to the ferrule, and used the knife tool to make cuts in the ferrule and extruded it inward. Then I added a hyper nurbs to the ferrule to make the famous rings on the ferrule. Finally, I made a metal texture and colred it gold to make it look like real gold. For the setup, I made a cup from a cylinder and added 7 copies of the pencil to the cup. Then I made three planes and put a pencil art texture on each of them. Then I added two more copies of the original pencil to each side of the pencil art, added a wood floor, an array light and rendered it with global illumination, which was the quickest global illumination ever and turned it for a grade. I will post whatever I make this week, or next week, but anyways, goodbye and have a happy, safe, and scary Halloween. Goodbye.
Today, I have finished this stool that I had to make. It is all the same size as the actual stool that I looked at reference to make it. First, I made the seat my making a cylinder and making the same size as the actual stool. Then I made the legs out of cubes extruded upwards. Then I made the blocks that go next to the legs. Then I positioned the legs between the blocks. Then I made the wooden bars that go in between the legs. Then I added a wood texture to all the parts and added a light. Rendered it and turned it in. The next project that I will post, will be a pencil, but anyways goodbye.
Today, I have finished my chess set in class. I consists of a board, a floor, 16 pawns, 4 rooks, 4 knights, 4 bishops, 2 kings, and 2 queens. To make the pawn, I traced half of it and then used a lathe nurbs, to complete it and made 15 copies. Next, I made the knight by tracing half of the base and then using a lathe nurbs, next I traced the knight and added an extrude nurbs to finish it and made 3 copies. Then, I made the rooks, by tracing half of it and using a lathe nurbs, then I added a cube and extruded it and made a boole to make the turrets and made 3 copies. Next, I made the bishop by tracing half of it and using a lathe nurbs, then I created a cube and made a boole to create the slit in the bishop and made 3 copies. Then, I made the queen, by tracing half of it and then using a lathe nurbs and made 1 copy. Finally, I made the king, by tracing half of it and then using a lathe nurbs, finally I made the cross by tracing the cross and using an extrude nurbs on it and made 1 copy. I laid them out on the chess board in the correct order and added a glass texture clear and black. I made the chess board glass and the floor glass. Then I added an array light and global illumination and rendered it and had to wait 20 minutes. And then turned it in.
Today, I have finished my glass project. It consists of a wine glass and a wine bottle. First, I had to make a spline for the wine glass. Then I had to lathe it to be 3D. Then I added a glass texture to the wine glass. Then I made a spline for the wine and lathed it. I added a burgandy color to the material and added it on. Next, I made the wine bottle by making a spline. Then I made a spline for the cork and combined the two. Then I made the cork, then the black plastic. Then I made the liquid in the wine bottle by making a spline and adding a lathe nurbs and then adding the same burgandy texture onto the glass. I added the floor and then walls. Added textures, a sky and then zoomed in and waited 20 minutes for the jpeg and the tif file to render. I am going to do extra credit, so I won't be bored. But anyways, goodbye and I'll do a post either today, or next week.
Today, I have completed my midterm project. Mr. Clausen put an object in the middle of the room, and I had to create and turn it in for a grade. The object was a lamp. First, I created the light fixtures. I made a spline and then use a lathe nurbs to create the object. Then I added two cylinders, one for holding the switch in place and another that was the actual switch. I then made the base by creating a spline and also using a lathe nurbs. Then I created the pole that holds the lights, it is made out of three cylinders. Then I added three short cylinders to hold the light fixtures in place. Then I attached the three light fixtures onto the little poles and rotated them into position. Then I added textures and colors onto the object to make it look realistic. Finally, I added a light into each of the fixtures and a light above with a floor, added shadows and toned down the brightness of the lights to 50%. I rendered it and turned it in. I don't know what I'll do next week, but I will keep posting of what I do. Goodbye.
This week, I have completed three projects. They are the deck chair, the park bench, and the iPods. The deck chair, was medium-hard to make, because it required a new technique that I have not learned before, which was arranging objects along a spline. And making copies of the objects. Every part of it was using splines and nurbs. The park bench was hard, because it required the same technique. The problem, is that the tutorials are out of date, they are from 2007, and were very hard to understand. The iPod was very quick to make. Then I went all out on it, by adding a click wheel texture, custom metal colors and album art. There are six colors green, red, blue, grey, black, and pink. I hope you enjoy them. I will do my midterm tomorrow, goodbye.
