3D studio max related post

Gonna use the blog to keep track of everything I'm doing and have done in the college, so here's the first 3d post.

Meaning to create a character with armour whom will be inspired by sci-fi and war games. The reason in general for choosing this as a project(apart from my obsession with such things)is I can create a character that looks very human but at the same time, can just be made with many simple geometric shapes.

As I haven't gotten photoshop onto my pc yet, I'm going to take note of words typed into google to find the ideal search results to help me build a mood board and help design a character. Once I have a design (probably created on photoshop by tracing a human to get the proportions right first time, then drawing clothing onto the figure) I will draw 4 sides all relative to each other. Then I can simply plot the images against a front wall, left, right and the other one......back I suppose.

All work to be done from home, giving me more time on 3d studio max instead of developing ideas in a sketch book (which can be done almost anywhere).

On the more exciting scale of things, I have found a new interest in cell shading (sp*) which has a cartoony yet 3d look. This might be worth pursuing.

KEYWORDS:
odst
carmine
link/windwaker
cel shading
tales of valheria
chronicles of vesperia
caste crashers
boba fett
steam punk (for lots of impressive designs built up with cylinders, rectangles and spheres)

New website post

Good news, my internets work again and my computer has been wiped and is now working at maximum efficiency. Now I can finally finish my work in a much easier fashion.

Here's a couple of screen shots of my home and animals page.

They are not finished, I will have a second navigation bar down the left (probably) and the animals are supposed to be links to other animal pictures of the same description. The home looks boring so I need to find a way to lighten it up.

Pardon the transform markings, they just happened to be on the page when I took the screen shot. and the pages aren't finished any way, they are merely to give a rough idea of the style my website will have.

Work is hard.....

Basically AOL sucks, the computer crashed and died recently and the internet (presumably the router) went with it, so work has been difficult without the use of it. Hopefully when everything is back online, this in turn will make the next unit much, much easier.

last post before production meeting

yup, production meeting is coming up so this seemed like a good idea. Here's like, some logo type things and stuff. Enjoy.

And the ball carries on rolling

yup, another post, it's 14:35 and another A4 page has been finished, very possible that I will cut up pages in order to spread images over a3 sheets ready for presentation. So, here ya go, slowly but surely this research will get done.

Time to get waaay more research done,

I guess i've been too picky with my choices of research images. So going to get several artists interpretations of wolves, deer and other animals. I also have Leaflets of animal parks that will make up possibly 1 A3 page and also a collection of maps which could work towards another a4/a3 sheet. A mind map also hasn't been started but I think it would be very beneficial to do so. So far, I have 2 A3 pages, by saturday evening, I aim to have a total of 6. And another 3 should be on the way over the course of the day on sunday. Hopefully all goes to plan.

(04/09/09 - 13:30)

Yet another page of moods

Here you go, there's another one here.

15:03 and I haven't done quite as much as I would have liked to.

Yeah, there's not nearly as much done as I had set out today, seems like the hours in college disappeared faster than I thought because even with me keeping my eyes pinned on the computer screen and working, I still didn't manage to achieve as much. At least the steps I've taken today have pointed me in the right direction for research, was pointed out to change what I was doing and start doing mood boards. Good advice.

Well, attached to this I have my list of websites that worked well and ones I hate with a passion. Hopefully I manage to piece together a website design that is similar to ones on the good site list. (Website url's included)

and more research. 11:45

This is really image research so making a logo should be slightly easier. I want to incorporate the wolf into the logo since the wolves seem to be the main attraction.

10.30

Got like, a little done, man... yeah...

Trying to make a stencil/graffiti style wolf with sunglasses so it advertises the main attraction and promotes their tag line where things are really on the wild side...... very original. Loving it.

Got some research to show but my cool wolf with sunglasses is in a strange file format apparently, I better stick to trustworthy stock photos now.

Goals for today, (03/09/09)

Guess I will type this fast as to give more time for this list..... yeah.

Meaning to gather more research in the form of mood boards, one for wildlife and animals, the other for various design techniques and styles to get some inspiration.

Next I mean to do roughs in my sketch book of the logo and try design some simple images that would be suitable for the website.

If I happen to do both of these, I will be going on to create roughs for the website after looking over the brief some more and figuring out what I'm doing next.