Week Ten

Friday

Today we decided to come in and start the animation however Keeley was off sick and Matt had not yet completed his characters so the animation had to be put on hold and me and Paul helped Matt with the characters.

Paul and Matt worked on creating the characters head and i created a body for the female characters, i created this from the male characters body Matt had created.

I changed the whole shape of the body to suit a female and changed the clothes, this was quite a challenge however i was very pleased with the final outcome.

Front View

Side View

Week Ten

Tuesday

This week we carried on working on our individual roles in order to start animation.

We sat down showed each other our work and decided that we wanted to definitely start animation this week so decided to come in on Friday to start this, ensuring all of our individual work is complete.

I spent today working on the wooden acoustic guitar, i am almost finished however still had a couple of things to alter and add.

I had to play about with the shape of the guitar as i created the shape using a circle, moved the vertex and then extruded, this was very difficult to smooth at first however adding a turbo smooth modifier and playing around with the iterations achieved a smooth finish.

I needed to make a hole in the middle of the acoustic guitar and was initially going to use Boolean to get this effect however in the end i decided to used the connect tool, i connected opposite points on each side of the guitar to create vertex in the centre. i then moved these vertex into a circular shape and deleted the space between them, this left we with a circle in the centre.

I then created the strings and the neck of the guitar in a similar way in which i created them on the electric and bass guitars.

Week Nine

Individual Progress

This week i have been creating the Drum kit, at the beginning i thought this was going to be very difficult, but as my skills are developing i am finding it much easier to create what i intend to. I started the drum kit but first crating the large centre drum. I used many cylinders to create this and then added a transparent material for the top of the drum, a metallic green for the sides of the drum and a silver metallic material for the metal around the sides of the drum.

I then created the rest of the drums using the scale tool on copies of the large drum, the drum stands i created were from cylinders which i added a black shiny material to and i created the symbol using a cone shape which i created a silver shiny metallic material for.




I then went on to create a stool for the drum player to sit on and some drumsticks, which i then added materials to.

Week Nine

Tuesday and Friday

This week we continued working on our individual parts and hope to have them finished by next week so that we can start putting all the objects into the rooms and begin the animation, i am looking forward to beginning the animation as this is something totally new to me which i cannot wait to learn.

We also come to the decision this week of changing the look and effect of the rooms, characters and objects. We decided that the rooms might look too realistic in comparison with the characters and objects. we decided to give them a more cartoon like effect by outlining the materials in black lines to give the effect they have been drawn.

we also figured that children will relate more to a cartoon effect rather then reality, and hopefully this will get the desired interest from the children which the YMCA are looking for.

Week Eight

Individual Progress

This week i have progressed with the creation of the instruments i have created a bass guitar and an electric guitar.

I created the Bass guitar using skills i learnt when creating and modelling my head earlier in this module, i placed and image of a guitar i found on the interned onto a plane using the material options, i then followed lines using the line tool creating a wire mesh to form the shape and converted this to an editable poly. I then created the edge faces making the guitar 3d rather then flat.

I then went on to create the rest of the guitar using various shapes and tools such as extrude. i created the strings and string tuners using cylinders and spheres. i first used the line tool to create the string on the guitars however when they were rendered the strings did not show so i resulted to using a really long and thin cylinder.

The bass guitar and electric guitar are very similar and the only things i needed to change on the bass to create the electric was to make the neck of the guitar slightly shorter, and an electric guitar has six strings instead of four. I then changed the colours and added materials and the guitars were finished.

Bass Guitar

Electric Guitar

Week Eight

Tuesday and Friday

The first thing we did this week was make changes to the story board and create a new one, after discussion we decided that changes needed to be made to the order in which the rooms appeared to give a better flow from genre to genre, with different things happening in each chill out room in between.




We took time this week to look at each others work and see how each other is getting on, this also helps to keep everyone on track. I was progressing with the instruments and the group seemed pleased with them so far, Paul was working on the lighting however had to make some changes so that the lighting fitted with the genre and timing of the music. Keeley had created objects such as the tables and chairs however still needed to add materials and Matt was working on the body of the male character, he still needed to add the head.

Everyone is working well on their individual parts in the project and i can really see how this is all going to come together and create our final outcome.

we also showed our work to Jo this week and she seemed pleased with our progress and effort, she seemed to like our ideas and was happy with every ones individual progress as well as the whole group.

Week Seven

Friday

Today i got started on creating the microphone as this seemed the simplest of all the objects, to create this i used shapes such as the sphere and cylinders to form the overall shape. i created the actual shape of the mic using only one sphere, i selected a group of vertex on one side and the moved them, dragging them out created the shape i was looking for.

I created the microphone stand and the base using the cylinder shape tool, changing the size and shape to fit the object.

Finally i added materials to give the desired shiny metal effect, i created materials by choosing the colour and altering the glossiness, specular levels and the anisotropy levels to get the metal like effect, this makes the mic look more effective and realistic.

Week Seven

After the Presentation

After the presentation we then decided to get started on individual work which would all come together and form our final idea, my individual area to work on for now is the modelling of the instruments. The instruments will consist of an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, a bass Guitar, drum kit and a microphone. This will be quite a challenge for me as i still have quite a lot to learn in 3d Studio Max and my skills still need much improving however this will help me improve and i am looking forward to the challenge and the final result.

First i will start with creating the microphone then the Bass guitar, followed by the electric guitar, the drum kit and finally the acoustic guitar.

Week Seven

Tuesday

Presentation

Today we presented our ideas to the class and listened to what the other groups were planning to do. This was very useful as it allowed us to comment and receive comments from members of the class on our ideas and get feed back on what their thoughts were on our work so far. we were all present for the presentation and all shared responsibility in getting our ideas across fully to the rest of the class, i feel we achieved this very well and overall the presentation was good. we clearly presented our ideas to the class covering every aspect of our idea from planning to creating and even showed some of our work so far, we didnt however receive much feedback or comments from the class. looking at the presentations i figured that most of the ideas each group had come up with were very similar.