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.