Phaser done

  These are the final renders of the phaser from different views

 These are the models without final rednering from roughly the same views

I learned quite a bit from doing these videos and i think that it turned out well. All of my assignments are posted some time in the past. Everything in powerschool can be found somewhere in my blog. Summer!

5/31/12

not much really changed. i spent most of today tweaking them geometry like in video 5. The geometry is really weird but hopefully i can get the modeling done next class

the phaser looks fairly good. Some errors wont show in the fnial render but would be noticable upon further examination.

5/23/12

Well... my vertexes don't line up. I will have to somehow snap them all together. Since i missed so much class I will take the phaser home and get some good work done there.

KickStarter idea

I know that there are already 3-D printers but this one seems to be small and convenient. A good point was brought up that imagine little kids being able to build their own toys and parts, it could be a game-changer. And its only $75, I think...

Teacup Final Render

I used a wood texture as the "Table" and I think that it looks pretty good. The objects look good as well, I have been devoting most of my time to the phaser.

5/15/12

well... my points won't snap to the grid. Hopefully there is a way to fix that

5/11/12

The phaser is starting to look like an actual phaser. Hopefully I can get it done pretty soon. Next class I can pretty much finish video 2 and probably half of 3. 5 more classes and i should be done. I'm worried about getting an A in this class, hopefullly my effort shows...

5/9/12

well, i got all the work i lost back. It is looking a lot better than the old version. i'm at 18 mins. next class...

5/7/12

well...i had to restart because the two planes didn't line up. I spent the entire period trying to figure out how to align them and set the scene up succesfully. Next class i will get more of the phaser done.

5/3/12

I started working on the Phaser but now it looks like I will have t redo the fish. I spent many class periods trying to make it look better but it just doesn't seem to look good. I was hoping that I could put enough effort to make up for it, but I should probably put the Phaser on hold for now. I'm not very good at the 3-D stuff, and never have been. I prefer programming, it makes more sense I have more fun doing it.

Everything looks pretty much done. The table texture won't load for some reason and so therefore I think i am going to just keep this. Or use wood texture. The Jar has more reflectivity for a more realistic look. The only thing else to do would be to master the lightning

4/23/12

maya is being extremely stupid. My hard work texturing is being erased so i may have to revert back to an earlier save. hopefully i don't miss the deadline. My fish is done i just have this and the phaser and then no more of this...

4/17/12

fro come reason the teacup is actually coming along really well. not only do I have pretty much all of the textures assigned and properly placed and corrected, but the modeling also looks good. I think this is from my skills in photoshop that I was able to properly texture the teacup. Thursday I will get the moajority of it done and then work on the phaser.

4/13/12

the teacup is coming along well. unfortunately there was no part two of the tuorial unless you switched the URL. So in order to pick up the tutorial and finish the project without error i had to figure out how to get ot the scond part. otherwise I could have really screwed myself over. It did explain why nothing made sense though

4/11/12

something has gone wrong with the texturing. I will have time to fix it next class. Don't really want to work on this project but I have to

Fish Done

 Modified Side View

 Front view

 Side View

Tail View

fish could be done

it looks pretty much complete but i might need to make modifications. Maybe will need to edit the lightning and enviroment, but we'll see. Would like to move on

4/412

My new fish has been retectrued. the bump maps arent as severe so it looks a little better in that sense. also the eye is much glossier than before, and much bigger. Next time i will just finish it up and get the 3d modeling down so it looks nice in 3-D as well.

4/2/12

the only problem now is that I am probably going to have to redo it again. after i redid the shape, it no longer reflects correctly over the x axis. I have an older save that i can use in order to revert back to the old way it looked. The texturing looks good though

3/23/12

my fish finally looks good and textured. After the geometry was redone the texturing started working fairly well and now all i have to do is shape ot correctly and then apply the bump map. Then it will look like a good and real fish.

the textures are not coming out on my fish. The fish loads the texture (unlike in the picture) but it doesn't line up. all it picks up is the ocean and the fins, although not selected, texture as well. It is illogical.

3/13/12

for some reason the text ruing refuses to work. i don't have much time left to finish it but I think that it will turn out good eventually

Photoshop Cubes

the cube things were pretty simple to make after i figured out how all of the lines connected and how to make the cubes. Once that was done making over 5 cubes was easy with some below and above, i was going to add more. Making the overlap was confusing and it required more thinking than i expected.

3/2/12

So far this is all I have, I don't really understand what the cubes are and how they are made so i didn't get started

Perspective building done

2/29/12

added the fins versus extruded them out but I have both of them. I still have no idea how to texture it because it messes up everytime I go to setup a PSD network. Hopefully on Friday we can get a lesson on how to finish off the project

2/23/12

all thats left is the rest of the fish...

Textured Ball Done

it looks pretty good with the applied texture which is apparently a roof. i added a small transparent hole under the x to demonstrate the transperancy. The color was applied over and the psd network works pretty eeaily

fish pictures

ran out of time but so far i have 6. image 5 is my side view, still need a good top view

2/13/12

so far i guess its coming along well. my major problem is how the teacup fluid is going to look. on wednesday I am going to keep going through the tutorial and add the water texture to it.

2/9/12

So far the teacup has been coming along well. I got the handle done and now I just have to make some touches and then add the sugar pot right next to it.

2/1/12

Been working on the teacup project and so far it has been going good. The project will look cool in the end but I started of doing the wrong thing

Screwdriver Done

Looks good besides the fact that the ground and light makes it look almost too perfect