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Board Game

A SHORT SNIP OF MY ANIMATION GAME

Insperation for visualiation

STAR WARS Refrence

ANOTHER SNIP OF MY SECOND VISUALISATION PROJECT, I CHOSEN TO HAVE A STAR WARS THEME ON THIS

Board Game

Still Rollin'

Maze

Train Keeps A Rollin'

Bad Design

i found this picture and wanted to show bad design ideas, is in a advert on the side of a bus, but the did not think about indicators!

Here is the stage i got to developing the nose and eyes, what i have done is add allot of polygons around the structure of the face, pulled a section from around the eyes creating a space between each eye and slowly pulled Polly's out of the structure of the nose. on the second picture what i have done is place spheres in the eye socket and turned on the NURMS

This image is the same image just at a diffrent angle, what ive done here is just straightend out any editable polygonsand added a few vertical line on the dimond in the nose so i can puss out a lovly little nose

More Trouble Every Day

Here i was presented with a problem i need to create a space for eyes, a nose and straighten out the polygons, having spent many good hours lining any quads and angles that maybe off centered i then found i would need to outline a diamond shape where the indent is on the skull and push the lines to form a hole to effect a eye. then using the same style on the eye but to a grander effect do the same for a nose. shrinking polygons and pulling line closer together ready to pull out a figure of a nose and eyes. This is the proses stage and out come so far with out the NURMS turned on.

Alter Ego (The Plan Was)

The plan was the neck. this is the point where i started to get a little cranky with the computer. OK so what i did was to try and stop the head looking like it still was A box, easy enough. on the fount of "The Head" I Place a polygon line down the side and pushed out the more of rounded face as you can see in the first image of this blog, with a litter hope and prayer we can pull it off! I found a button i forgot about, the NURMS that round of the object by levels and doing this before the neck was in place filled me with great joy showing me that its possible and, thus the language became a little more appropriate for a communal computer room. The next stage of "The Head" was to put in a neck by doing this, the language turned a little sour again trying to find out how to create it. The problem i had was how to do it, first i tried to stretch from the back of the jaw down. I must have spent the next day or two trying to find out how to do this. Eventually i was suggested to delete half of the neck and select all the deleted edges and pull!

The head (part 4ish)

On the neck stage as you can see in the first image of this blog, the neck was pulled down after deleting the a third if the head, this presented measurable amount of trouble. What i found out is that depending on the angle that the view window all matters on the out come of the shape. i spent a good few hours with the neck shooting off to all sorts of angles and points, till i realised i had not selected all the vertex's on the cut aways shape. One the shape was to a satisfactory and i could deal with it, i created a loop running around the middle of the neck as can be seen in the second image of the blog, i then had to give it a shape of a neck because its easy to see that a neck is not a vertical line, therefor pushing the middle lines together and stretching the lower outer lines of the neck to give more stability.

The Start Of Alter Ego

So this is the beginning of it all, my descent in madness, temper tantrums, abusive language and want of putting a foot in to the computer that we know and love as 3D studio max. To start with having only dabbled into 3D max, creating objects that has all been planed out by a voice of experience, i took it upon myself to create a avatar or "The Head" as i like to call it. having this in mind i set out with the first of with a box, a plan old box and set it in the center of the 3D max universe and had all sides centric to each other. Once i had this I had a few loop around the edges i used 2 on the sides and 4 runing around the box, and had the edged faces so I can see what in doing because I still do not know. Then with the set up i

So far this is the shape Ive come out with using 3ds max to create my avatar

3ds Max

WEDNESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2008
Today i started my 3ds max avatar
i stated of with just a cube cut it in to segments and converted it in to editable polygon deleted half of it selected summitry from the modifier list, clicked on the left view and started extruding it to a human head shape, i then checked the subdivision surfaces and found my new facroit tool use NURMS to see it. The head need more poiligons to give the head more structure and a better shape. I did this by holding down the controle key and and selectiong 5 vertexs from the chin

Imagery and Visual Culture

TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY
Todays lecture talked about what visual culture -ie Painting, Sculpture, Movies and such
Also how cultures are forms of languages.
I found a word I hadn't come across yet, Semiotics.
Semiotic is how scosity produces meaning in a communication systems shared by a commitie.
The lecture talked about what was the fields of visual cuture in the 1920, this were pretty much Fine Art, Craft Design, Peforming Arts. but todays there is these filelds are still in play but there is the introduction on Mass and Electronic Media. ie- TV, Internet and still growing because of the culture change.
"No technology has had a greater influence on the world than the TV" By Theodor W.
TV changed how record life

(FACT) Minutes of Prime Time Adversts in Hours
1960's 6.2
2000's 15.0

TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2008

Playing back on Second Life! i had so much fun playing in a car driving around, today tho i realised that Second Life is just a glorified chat room just with a bit more polish to it. I feel tho if i was asked to play this say about six years ago as i was in my final year at school i know it would have been a phenomenon but now i don't really enjoy it, i mean don't get me wrong i would have thought that playing on a chat room for uni would be really cool but the fact that it is a glorified advert space and chat room just loses it appeal to me. In conclusion i guess I'm just getting old!

With the presentation on photographs that scream light and colour. i considered taking photogrphs pf the sky and seeing how pointing the camera at the sun in a english winter, and these are my two favorite out of the album, I took great plesure taking these photos because i brought a 512mb memory card for the camera so i could take pictures till my heart was content insted of the normal maximum 17 and that anoyed me immensely! The first photo is the sky and i photoshop'ed the image to bring out the blue and put the building and the trees in to a silhouette, i think the image could have a inch or two taken of the bottom of the image, but i love how the blue sky and the clouds reverberate the black of the surrounding areas.
The second image i tried to take a photo of the sun showing light, and the sun peaking in between the branches again i think the image could have been croped, i think taking in the image in from the left. with this shot i only changed the brightness filter in photoshop up a touch and i thought that was a nice comliment to the image. the part i like most on this photo is the circles that apear around the light shining through

SECOND LIFE!!!! At last Ive finally hacked my way on to second life, i have my character 'Wook Boomhauer' a super hero with a alter ego complex! well follow his progress with great interest! let the second life begin!

HANNIBAL

Monday 29 January 08
Come Christmas I had only a few presents, TRANSFORMERS Monopoly! its awesome even tho there are a few cards missing, causing a few Monopoly fights on Xmas day. Also I reserved A collection of Thomas Harris books The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon and Hannibal. I love the book the are now probably in my view the best trilogy of books every published and the films adaptation are equally as good, all but the film to Hannibal. I found the movie some what much diffrent to the noviel, il explain! There was a lot of key elements to the novie that were missing, i know its going to be some what difficult to place a 600 page book in to a 2 hour movie but still, loving the books im going to bitch a little. There is some notiable absences from the novile such as the characters 'Margrot Verger' only a secondry role but the sister to 'Mason Verger' one of thee key characters in the plot, also Jack Crawford again probily only a secondy role but still vital to the element of the movie. With these characters gone there are going to be some parts of the plot that can not be in the film. One problem i have with the film is the ending when 'Dr Hannibal Lecter' feed the child brain. In the book the child is a annoying little brat who to annoyes the Dr to feed him the brains, In the film its the Dr who feeds the child and the scene is almost backwards.
But apart of that, I Really enyoyed playing around with the multi-angle featurettes at the start and i guess that alone almost mad up for film