Friday, November 13, 2015

Logging truck



    Today, I have finished my logging truck project. The real toy truck, is wood and carries logs. To make it, I built the truck and the trailer separate, but I started with the truck first. All I got help from the teacher, were a few pictures of the front and back of the truck. The entire truck, is made entirely of separate individual shapes. There are cubes, cylinders, and tubes. But I started with the grill of the truck, by shrinking down a cube on the z axis. I then edited it and highlighted the areas I did not want on both sides to create the grill. Then I made the side panels and the engine hood.Then the fenders out of tubes, and then the wheels, which are made up of tubes and cylinders. Then I extruded part of the engine hood to make the inside of the truck. I then added the doors. And then incorporated the couch that I made earlier this year, as the seats in the truck. Then I added the steering wheel, which is made out of a cylinder. Then I added the other stuff on the truck and started to make the backside. I first made a cube, and made it longer and I filleted it to make smooth on the edges.And finally added the wheels and the part that hooks the trailer to the truck, which is a tire. Then, I made the trailer out of cubes, some parts I used the knife tool to make cuts in the object. I then added the wheels, and added on a wood texture. Then for the logs, I did not make them, but Mr. Clausen did, as a random act of kindness to the class. Finally, I made a shelf out of a cube and added a plane as a wall and added a light and set the rendering to global illumination and turned it in for a grade. My next project that I will post, will be pens that I am making currently, but anyways, goodbye.

Friday, November 6, 2015

Lego Men



Today, I have finished my lego men project. There are 11 lego men, as you can see. There is iron man, cyclops, black widow, captain America, Martian Manhunter, gold, silver, and bronze lego men, and a black, grey, and white glass lego men. To start, I had to just make one lego man and made 10 copies of them and added on superhero textures and custom glass colors and custom metal colors. I first, made the head of the lego man in three parts out of cylinders. For the head part, where the face is, I filleid to make it rounder. Then I made the bottom part, by first making the legs. The feet, I made out of cubes and the legs are also cubed to, with cylinders, to make the legs round to have them be able to move like on a real lego man. Then I made the crotch, out of a cylinder, and finally I made the torso out of a cube, that was flattened. Then I made the body out of a cube and used a tapir to make it go inwards. After connecting all the parts, I then made the arms, which was the hardest part of this project. I used cylinders and made them editable and bent them, to give the distinctive elbow joint on the lego man. And the hands are made out of tubes. And connected the hands to the arms, by making a smaller cylinder. Then I added textures and custom metal and glass textures, added a floor with a metal color with two array lights and global illumination on render settings and turned it in. Next week, I will post a wood truck that I have to do and thanks for supporting me and viewing my pages, because I have 500 page views. Thank you for Russia and the USA and have a happy veterans day and the US and thank you veterans for serving this country and stay tuned next week. Goodbye.