Finally Another Post

Haven't posted in a while, but that was mainly because I didn't have anything that I was proud of to post. Well I finally have something That I am sort of proud of.

Our first project for this class is to design a product of some sort. We were given several design competition websites to give us some focus and ideas. I settled on one that was asking for products that would make us, as human beings live more "green."

I did some research and got really interested in electromagnetic induction. Its the same science that goes in behind turbines in a damn. I started thinking what I could make that a normal person could use day to day. Which made me think about bike headlights and how they are powered by the user riding the bike. Which led me to design a similar system but minus a lot of the bike (except the pedals). Which led me to the above image. It is a personal low volt power generator, which I will probably end up naming "Pedal Power" or some other catchy phrase.

Texture Madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I put a texture on my ant which is harder then it seems. To apply a texture you have to cut out and unfold the image much like cutting a box open so that all the faces of the box are connected but the whole box lays flat. Generally ending up in a cross shape. I know that is not a good explanation, but the best I can do with my frazzled brain right now.

Puppy Cube (& other such nonsense)

Today was our first introduction to texture in blender and we were making basic texture wraps for cubes. I decided to use puppies because it added a level of ridiculousness (as you can see above). :3

Final Ant

Well our teacher was not feeling well today so class was canceled. He left us with a guide on how to place our "creature" into an actual image. Above is my final product. I think it turned out fairly well. It was hard to get the shadow to curve around the finger just right.

Ant

Not done yet, but just decided to upload what I did in class today. On Wednesday we are going to apply our "creatures" to a background. Should be fun :3 !!

Weekend Homework

Managed to make this by myself!

Day 2

I think I am getting the hang of this!