12/14/2015

Today I continued on the light saber. I made the blade and started coloring the lightsaber.  Go Empire.

12/10/15

Today we continued on the light saber.  We worked on the control panel today.  It looks really cool.  It even has little screws.

12/8/15

Today we continued the body of the light saber

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12/4/2015

Today in class we continued working on our light saber.  I made most of the body today except for the upper hand grip.  I think it is starting to look pretty cool.

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12/2/2015

Today in class we started our light saber project.  We worked on making the rectangle for the little control panel on the side and we also learned how to make the top part of the light saber.  I will have pictures next time because I ran out of time in class today.

11/30/2015

Today in class we didn't do much.  We updated the format on our big project blog and I wrote a few blogs in there.

11/23/15

Today in class we worked on our lighting again.  Today we added two more lights, a fill light and a back light.  My first picture has only the spot light in the front on.  The second picture has the spot light and the fill light on which gets rid of the light on the speck of dust.  The third light has all three lights on which makes the dust stick out from the back ground.

11/19/2015

Today in class we worked on lighting.  We started with a cube and smoothed it three times.  Then we pulled out a few points to get a complex shape.  Then we added a camera and a light to highlight the thing we made.  This is what I came up with.

11/13/15

Today in class we worked on our big project.  I added numbers to each side and started to color it.

11/11/2015

Today in class we worked on our big project.  Today I added the propeller and finesd the back of the plane.

11/9/2015

Today in class we continued on our wine glass.  I made the glass transparent and added liquid to the inside of it.  I made the liquid have surface tension so it went up the side of the glass like real liquid.  Then I colored it purple.

11/5/2015

Today in class we worked on revolving a curve. For the first one I made a really complex curve then revolved it.  The second one is supposed to be a wine glass.

11/3/2015

Today in class we worked on Boolean.  This is a really weird process that looks kind of cool.  This is what I came up with.

10/16/2015

My spaceship is going to be a mix between a blimp and steampunk.  I made the body of the blimp orange, the tubes red, the tail pipe dark gray, and the windows green.  Here is what it looks like.

10/14/2015

Today in class we worked on thumbnail pictures for our spaceship.

10/12/2015

Today in class we worked on making a spaceship.  Next time we are going to make the space ship look like it is flying.  So the space ship I made is a normal space ship with four thrusts.  But I made the cockpit stick out so it is easier to see out of and attached two rings to the thrusts to keep them together when they fall off.  I will put more detail on them next time.

10/8/2015

    This year in 3D graphics and design I have been working on making a model biplane.   I am accomplishing this by  taking a blueprint of a biplane and making a copy of the parts into Maya.  Then I took those parts and I am starting to assemble them to make them look like the shape of the biplane parts.  For example I took a flat wing and the shape of the wing from the side and put them together so that I had the shape of the wing.  Then I took the shape and exuded it the length of the wing so that the wing was in 3d.  I then took the top and the bottom of the plane and put it against the side of the plane and shaped the top and sides so that they meet and were as smooth as I could get them.  To get to the point where I can do this I had to learn all of the different features of Maya.  I had to learn how to do wire frame modeling, copy and paste, extrude, and duplicate special.  I had to use a combination of all of these things to be able to make the plane.  In the first week I worked on getting the sizes of all of the parts of the plane.  I got the two wings and the wing components done in one day.  

Then the next day I got the parts for the body of the plane made.  The second week I started to put the body of the plane together.

Then the fourth week I attached the wings to the plane.  

I still need the do the wheels and the propeller but it is really starting to come together.

10/6/2015

Today I continued on with my biplane.  I got the bottom wing shaped and attached to the plane today.  This is what it looks like.

10/2/15

Today is big project Friday.  I had the main body of the plane somewhat created last time so this time I attached the top wing,  the support beams between the bottom wing and the top wing, and also the back wing.  This is what my biplane looks like now.