Day: September 15, 2015

My Environment Idea

Today we had a challenge, to think of an environment we could steadily build in 3D Modelling software over the next few weeks. There were some boring ideas, post-apocolyptic, corridors, circus.

I thought of an idea that i thought nobody had previously. My idea was to build an environment around the time when the asteroid had just struck and was slowly wiping out the dinosours. This means that there would be next to no natural light at all. Alot of blacks, ash. Dinosaurs slowly rotting and dying. The world possibly coming to an end. I think it would make a unique setting for our modelling.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, signs of coal ash swirl in the water in the Dan River in Danville, Va. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of coal ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden N.C.Over the last year, environmental groups have tried three times to use the federal Clean Water Act to force Duke Energy to clear out leaky coal ash dumps. Each time, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources has effectively halted the lawsuit by intervening at the last minute to assert its own authority to take enforcement action. In two cases, the state has proposed modest fines but no requirement that the nation’s largest electricity provider actually clean up the coal ash ponds. The third case is pending. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Using 3DS Max

Today we started to use 3DS Max, i have not used this software before so i was coming in without any experience. It is a 3D Modelling software. We started the day by receiving a short tutorial on some shortcuts to use in the program. Here are some that i jotted down:

Shortcuts

This is my first design,along with the rest of the class, we created a simple TV along with a set of drawers and teapot (the teapot was a preset shape!). There are some screenshots below of the creation.

.TV + Draws Screenshot 1 TV + Draws Screenshot 2

I think this could be improved greatly as this is only the first thing i have created. The television took a bit longer than anticipated which set me back, but i eventually got back on track and created the drawers and teapot. To improve this work i need to learn how to use more of the tools and features in this program and get more confident with the tools I used here.

Update 12/101/2015

I have recently grown more confident in this particular program as I have had to use it alot more as part of our class project. I have created objects such as the iMac , iMac keyboard and iMac mouse.