3dsmax - the work is continuing

Maybe it starts to be looking as 'something'...

3dsmax - Continueing with more objects

I created the floor plan of the first room (walked around and measured everything). Then I made the floor plan in Adobe Illustrator and imported it in 3dsmax. I encountered a weird error but saving the ai file as Adobe Illustrator 8 solved the problem.

So here's my work in progress...

3ds max -creating objects

It's time to work on objects I will want in my scene. So well here are two simple objects - a chair and a table.

Final Show - website

For my final show I should have some printed drawings and photos.
There should also be a stand with my website. The theme of the site is Japanese Subculture. Each link talks briefly about one topic and shows some of my work.

I started working on the site and this is how it looks like so far.
It talks about Cosplay, Music Games, Para Para dancing and Manga.



One more station should be there, my and Pavel Belan's videos should be shown there.

3ds Max lesson no.2

Learning how to map using Unwrap UVW.

Using Unwrap UVW we can generate a template for our textures and then we can create the textures in Adobe Photoshop for example. To try how this works I quickly created a rectangle with subdivisions so it could look like a DDR platform.

I then created the texture and used it via the Material Editor.



We also learned how to blend textures. For that we did not use the Standard Material but Blend Material which allows us to use two different materials (can also be a blend material or any other). We used a mask to let the 3dsmax to know where and how it should blend the two textures.



I used the very same mask that I used to generate the terrain.

Where this 'project' took me?

Even though it might see that I did not learn much nor it showed much in my work it's not as it seems. My drawings improved a lot and I learned a lot of things I use. Some better, some worse.

After finishing Leviathan I decided to collect everything I learn and try it out on a series of images. I started sketching a Legend of the Five Rings characters.

The first was a Unicorn clan rider.

The second one was a Mantis clan girl.

A third one in the same row was Togashi monk.

In these images I came really closer to what I wanted to do in my Personal Project. I did not manage it on time but this is what I was aiming for. It is still far from perfect and far from being any good in general. But I will work on it. Thank you George, Pavel and others that supported me. I'm progressing slowly on my own though.

Sweet Dreams

(if you won't see the flash, just hit F5)
Yesterday the school semester ended. One of the submitted assignments was supposed to be a Professional Sound Production class one. I just could not come up with anything and couldn't really record anything.

Yesterday I tried. In the end I came up with this...Could be worked on and it's not finished yet...