Week Two

Monday

Today we had a whole group visit to the YMCA in Chelmsford and were given a talk by Craig Gough about the services they provide and the events they organise for the youths in the community. we were give a leaflet listing all of the main events and had time to ask him any questions we may have. This meeting was really useful and gave a full insight into what the YMCA has to offer and the areas in which we could focus our project. After the talk we had a look around the YMCA looking at photos and posters for events taking place.

Once the visit to the YMCA was over we returned back to university and did some more research in our groups looking in more detail at the specific events the YMCA holds. From this research we then decided that we wanted to focus ours on the different events which revolved around music and the different genres of music the youths enjoy.

We then brainstormed ideas and come up with concept which we will create using 3D studio Max, the concept is to create an animation with a series of rooms and in each room a different music event using a different genre of music. This will represent the different music events held by the YMCA.

I am working in a group with Keeley, Paul and Matt. i chose to be in a group with these people as i have worked with them before and we all work very well together. we are also from two different pathways and therefore bring a whole range of skills to the group.



we storyboarded our final idea and set some tasks to have completed by next lesson so we were ready to start work knowing exactly what we wanted to achieve.



Next weeks goals:


All the group create in 3D Max props:


cups
chairs
tables
stages etc....



Friday

After finishing the lines on the face in Photoshop it was time to move from photoshop to 3D Studio Max. In 3D Max i set up two planes which i placed the image of my face on using the material tool. i placed the front view of my face on one plane and the side view on the other. I then set them up in position.

After creating the planes i then went on to use the line tool to follow all of the lines i created in Photoshop to create a flat wire mesh effect over the face. this was then converted to an editable mesh poly.