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.