The Great Cube Challenge: Part 1

So as another side project I'm supposed to do, I have to do this thing called the great cube challenge, which I will leave a link to at the end of this post. Unfortunately, one of the tools (the append to polygon tool, to be specific) refuses to do what I need it to do. As much as I would hate to leave behind a mega disappointment as my screenshot of the project, I don't have much of a choice.

So yeah, there's that. Long story short, I'm already hating this thing.

The Great Cube Challenge: http://www.3dstudents.com/2014/01/mini-great-cube-challenge.html

I Did A Thing

Today my teacher had us screw around with particles, and I did this

Honestly not sure how I got here, and I need to learn how ambient light works, because I want the green to make a light glow off of the particles, not take over the entire particle.

R2D2

I have more progress on the R2D2 leg. Sadly I have hit a point where the tutorial no longer has pictures to show you what your result should look like. Gonna have to talk to the teacher about that one. That said, here is my progress.

February Reflection

At the beginning of the class I started a sketch for a lantern. That sketch would then be scanned, and than scan traced over in photoshop. Once the tracing process was finished, I placed the picture into Maya and began modeling the lantern based on the sketch. Now I have to texture the lantern and make the lantern give off light.


On that note, the R2D2 is coming along well. I'm going to need to edit the portion of the leg highlighted green in order to smooth out the top edge, though.

Side Project

So, while I was working on R2D2, my teacher decided to have me help him test a tutorial on how to make R2D2. In other words the lantern is on hold at the moment. I have made some progress on R2D2's leg already.