Thursday, March 26, 2015

Back to the Future: DeLorean (With a Twist)

Challenges:
Every project has its problems and everybody has to run into an issue.  As usual, my number one challenge was finishing my project in time with it at the level I believe is publishable.  I have to say I am extremely proud of what I accomplished.  My car paint was one of my biggest challenges and feats. I have 15 (I repeat 15) nodes that created my car paint.  Four glossy, three mix, RGBs, hues, fresnel, and more.  I tried to make it as convincing as possible and that is what took up the most of my time other than the basic modeling.








Friday, January 9, 2015

Practice Car Project

For our practice hard-surface modeling project, we were to make a sports car.  I ended up running into many problems so the image above is the result of a frustrating fourth try.  Since I didn't feel like finishing the entire project for the fourth time, I decided to use my creativity and come up with a solution.  Solution: Make a dump and an old car.  So that's what I did and this is what happened...

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Hard Surface Modeling

Hard surface objects are anything man-made or constructed (AKA have hard surfaces).  They do not naturally exist in nature like organic models do.  Some examples are cars, robots, trains, and many other objects.  Hard surface modeling is important because, to be able to model anything that you would see with a hard surface in real life, you need to understand how to create it and what exactly it is made up of.  My reference photos for my hard surface modeling project are below:








Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Food Project: Challenges

My biggest challenge while making my food project was all the little details.  "Little Details" as in making sure everything is up to my level of perfection.  All the textures, making sure the objects look realistic, having everything I want in the composition... and many more.  Something else that added into the challenge was that I started late.  I had to wait for the donut project to render and then Blender at home did not work.  Plus, my orange juice glass did not want to fill for about three classes straight. (-_-) But!  Thankfully, I overcame all of these problems and challenges and I can now happily say.... I'M FINISHED!! :D

Food Project: COMPLETED

The Diner
Please excuse the white dots... I tried to make them go away but they just wouldn't.