Is it a bird? No, its a plane!

Today I created an aeroplane in 3D Max.

I started by creating the body with a cylinder. I then selected polygons on one of its faces and extruded them and repeated it to give it its pointed nose shape. I then extruded some more polygons along the body to give it its wings. But before I did that I Tapered the model to give it its more rounded triangle look.

I continued to extrude and move vertex to create a wing and a tail fin on the plane.

After I created the wing and finished the tail of the ship, I then created a cylinder and copied it twice so I had 3 cylinders. I then moved the cylinders on top of the wing to so it looks like it has 3 engines.

The final stages were probably the most difficult - deleting half of the model by deleting the vertexes. I then copied the half and mirrored it so I could attatch it to the main first part.

Finally I selected vertexes and moved them close enough to weld them together to make a full soilid model - with exception to the back end of the ship where there is still a small hole.

Mr Roboto

Mr Roboto is alive!..... well, nearly alive.

Today, I started to build a robot is 3D Max using all that I have learnt about so far - box moddeling, using standard primitives and extended primitives. Editable meshes and modifiers.

The 2 images above show the head of the robot as well as its neck and part of its upper torso. Also you can notice that I extruded parts of it so that it looks like it has ears and eyes. The hardest part of making the model so far was when i was extruding the edges and ahd to get help whith adding vertexes and joining them up so it covered the holes.

Below you can see where I added a section on top of its head. I extruded two a point on its head and as the object was mirrored i also did it on the opposite side. I then added a Torus Knot in between teh two extruded points. What I forgot was that the object was mirrored and it added and extra knot. Luckily it turned out alright.

The two images below show that I created a cylinder and bent it before attatching it to the main body of the robot. Again because the object is mirrored, it created an arm on teh opposite side. I then created a pyramid and resized it so that it would fit on the end of the robots arms to make a type of hand/spike for it. I also extended the body of the robot so it now goes down to about its waist height.

To complete the model I would say I would need a couple of hours to finish it off. Nto because it would be difficult, but more because I still need to get used to all the controls and what the buttons do.

Wallpaper Evaluation

Wallpaper Project Pt.2 - Fonts

For this section I had to research different styles of fonts and download 2 different ones that I could use in my wallpaper.Once I had the basic idea of what I wanted to do (I will post the basic ideas I drew in my next post) I looked on http://www.1001freefonts.com/ for the fonts. This website has many sections - Gothic, Horror, Asian etc and each of those sectioons has different fonts within them.

Looking through the different sections I found there was many fonts I liked and thought there might be a chance I could use them. The following images are of my research on teh website, some of the fonts in the images do stand a good chance at being used in my wallpaper.

The image above shows a few examples of different fonts from the Gothic section. The first font show "A Charming Font" is my favourite font out of them all - including those from the other sections - and will most liely be used in my wallpaper.

The image above show example from two other sections - Horror and Greek/Roman.

I like the horror style fonts as it suits in with how my wallpaper will look - a gothic/horror theme. (Which I think is appropriate with it getting so close to Halloween :D )

I also find the Greek/Roman style fonts interesting too, particulalry seeing as how the fonts in the image are more in the style of the Norse so I think that is a mistake on the websites part. I have a strong interest in Norse mythology and history and find the font styles quite interesting.

Below in the final image is one last font from the Roman/Greek style called "YGGDRASIL" which when translated generally means Odins horse. In Norse mythology yggdrasil is The World Tree and is a central part in Norse mythology.

The final section of fonts comes from the section called Bitmap/Pixel. I thoguht fonts from this section would also be appropriate for the wallpaper because of their strong connection with media and games.

The Desktop Wallpaper Project

In this project, I have to plan, design and create a desktop wallpaper which will be used around the college.

I started this project by creating a collage showing 4 differant genres - Horror, Sci-fi, War and Fantasy.

I made the collage by cutting out the images out of games magazines, 3D CGI magazines (EDGE) and stuck the cutouts on a size A3 piece of paper.

After making this, I looked at the current college wallpaper and made notes about it looking at its key aspects - icons, colours etc.

The image above shows the comments I made when I looked at the current wallpaper for the computers in the media suites. I commented on the number of icons, how they are arranged and the colours.

Once I made comments about the current wallpaper, I went on the internet and looked at other wallpapers and commented on them. I looked at a total of 4 other wallpapers - here is a sample of what I did.

Bioshock 2 wallpaper

For the Bioshock 2 wallpaper I commented about how it is a "Unique take on the world of Rapture" and that it has a unique artistic style. I also commented that it woulnd't really be appropriate for the whole college beause of its content - blood and demented imigary.

Happy Tree Friends wallpaper

For the Happy Tree Friend wallpaper I commented on things such as - the colour scheme and howw it makes the text and icons stand out. I mentioned about icon placement and the best places the icons could go. How the character shown is from a web animation, whcich would be appropriate from media and games groups, as well as for other people around the college.

Using the comments I made from looking at the differant wallpapers I made a Brainstorm to gather more ideas on what I could do with my wallpaper.

3d Name

Today I created my name using 3D Max and used splines to create at pentragram and used Text to place my name in it. Once done, I joined both the text and the pentagram together. With both pieces joined I used modifiers to make the pentangle 3D from being 2D

3D Max - First time

Last week was the first time I used 3D Studio Max and in messing about getting used to it, here is what I created -

I was using the Standard Primitives to create basic shapes - Box, Sphere, Pyramids, Cones etc

Using these shapes I placed them as I saw fit to create my own landscape.


These are very basic renders of the 3D models I made. Below are my "artistic" shots of what I made :D





These images are the renders of what I created. They are my first steps in 3D design and modelling. Over the coming months we will see how my skills in 3D work improves and the things I create with those skill and tools.