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Head movement

Today we learned how to make a head preform different movement by using diferent function on the 3ds Max. First we downloaded a head object form the tutor's blog then imported in to 3ds max. We decided to make 3 duplicates of the same head and give each head a different move. 1st head opened his mouth very wide to see the difference. 2nd head closed its eyes for a movement and the 3rd one moved its nose up and down. Once these 3 heads were ready we move the movement in to the master head which controlled all these 3 moves. Then we created a animation video by making these head perform somesort of action face movie to see how it would look in a video clip.

House (Target)

My third object is a house whcih will be the target which will be attacked by the tank using the cannon balls.

Cannon Balls

My second object related to make tank are the Cannon balls. The early aged tank used to use the old fashioned cannon balls used in the empire wars.

Tank

This is the final look of my wooden tank. The the was quite hard to create barring in mind it had to be as good as possible and had to look just like the original. I've added several pictures of the tank taken from different angles.

Daylight System

Daylight system tutorial was a really fun one to do after following the step by step instrustions from youtube video. Today we create different shapes then changed them in to more intrusting colours and shapes. Some of them look smooth and some look glossy by using the glossy paint.

Lighting

Today we learned how to create lighting effect in 3D Max around any object created or downloaded from the internet. The lighting effect allows you to add light inside and object such as pumpkin. The yellow corn on the left hand side is one of the lights giving an effect from the side of this pumpkin and the green cube on the right hand side in another light giving a different effect.

The one below is a bit more bright then the one above becuase the cube shaped has been moved arround.

Making Leaves Using Mapping Techniques

Original Leaf

Edited Leaf



Material Edit Leaf

Leaf with Effect

After going through the tutorial and doing the step by step on how to take out the white surface of the leaf and make it at a angle in 3D Max. I reallly enjoyed doing this bit today was really intresting and fun was little bit confusing at the start in photoshop but after that in 3D max was quite a fun part.

Material Editor

                                                                       Wood Effect

Box in wood effect

World of wood

Today we learned how to work in material editor. Editor allows us to convert any image of the internet or a personal image and wrap it around our object made by us. Today I first found an image of Google open it in 3D Max via material editor which looks like my first image. Then we made a box and covered the box with our wood effect to change the gloss, softness and the sharpness of the box containing the wood effect as shown in picture 2. The effect on one of the round material's look like this once material has been applyed. Last picture is what I decided to called world of wood.

Moodboard

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519)

Leonardo da Vinci -

67 years of age

Da Vinci was one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance, hugely influential as an artist and sculptor but also immensely talented as an engineer, scientist and inventor.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of a local lawyer. He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became an independent master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect. From 1495 to 1497 he produced a mural of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.

Da Vinci was in Milan until the city was invaded by the French in 1499 and the Sforza family forced to flee. He may have visited Venice before returning to Florence. During his time in Florence, he painted several portraits, but the only one that survives is the famous 'Mona Lisa' (1503-1506).

In 1506, da Vinci returned to Milan, remaining there until 1513. This was followed by three years based in Rome. In 1517, at the invitation of the French king Francis I, Leonardo moved to the Château of Cloux, near Amboise in France, where he died on 2 May 1519.

The fame of Da Vinci's surviving paintings has meant that he has been regarded primarily as an artist, but the thousands of surviving pages of his notebooks reveal the most eclectic and brilliant of minds. He wrote and drew on subjects including geology, anatomy (which he studied in order to paint the human form more accurately), flight, gravity and optics, often flitting from subject to subject on a single page, and writing in left-handed mirror script. He 'invented' the bicycle, airplane, helicopter, and parachute
some 500 years ahead of their time.

If all this work had been published in an intelligible form, da Vinci's place as a pioneering scientist would have been beyond dispute. Yet his true genius was not as a scientist or an artist, but as a combination of the two: an 'artist-engineer'. His painting was scientific, based on a deep understanding of the workings of the human body and the physics of light and shade. His science was expressed through art, and his drawings and diagrams show what he meant, and how he understood the world to work.

The life history of Leonardo da Vinci is taken from BBC website which explains how clever he was in the early years. Vinci invented his first design of helicopter back in 1500. This shows how ahead his knowlodge in machiener was comparing to people who started to think like him in 1900. First helicoper was invented, build and reached its full-scale production in U.S in 1942 thats after 442 years of designed by Vinci. He designed lots of genius designs of machinery on paper in those times when people had no computers, internet, pens and hardley had any 24/7 electricity to work under.
Source website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/da_vinci_leonardo.shtml

Twist

I justed learned a new tool which allows the user to create a twisted object and turn it into a more flexiable shape. It starts off from the shape of a spring and allows you to change its colours, hight, width almost everything.

Lathing - Week 2

Today’s practical was very interesting I got to learn a new tool in 3D Max Studio. Today we got told how to create a 3D object which can be made in illustrator first then imported into 3D Max.  It makes it a lot easier to create in illustrator first as I know how it works.  I also learned how to create any object I like then import it in 3D Max and make a real object out of it. Like today I made bottle which allows me to rotate it around to view its different angels and view it from top to inside of the bottle.  Each image is shown from a different angle just show the viewer how the bottle looks from different sides.

After reading the module introduction it sounds like a fun topic to work on. As i've never done 3D modelling before it will be a new experience and new thing to learn. The new 3D Studio Max Software sounds like a enjoyable topic to work on. I've never heard of this softare before so im happy about learning new skills reated to this software.