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by augustk

ANI 230 – Completed

Well I totally forgot to update this during class, but that’s okay.

IT IS TIME FOR UPDATES.

The class was about Maya so it was recommended that we download Maya 2015. I was a bit too lazy and decided that my installation of Maya 2014 would have to do. Here are a few of the things we had to make.

So our first homework was simple, but introduced us to Maya. We made a fan.

Simple Fan - Maya 2014
Simple Fan – Maya 2014

It had limitations, so it really looks bad. Luckily this is a course about low-poly modeling, so super-detailed isn’t what we aimed for.

Second homework was to model some animals, again with limitations.

Animals - Maya 2014
Animals – Maya 2014

I chose to model a snail, a T-Rex, a kiwi, and a human. I think improvements can be seen!

Next up was a shoe, and a lot of revisions.

Shoe - Maya 2014
Shoe – Maya 2014

Somehow turned into this after a lot of messing around:

Revised Shoe - Maya 2014
Revised Shoe – Maya 2014

Then I chose to model a guitar capo which proved an interesting challenge:

Guitar Capo - Maya 2014
Guitar Capo – Maya 2014

Skip a few and we arrive at our toy store assignment. It was pretty simple, with a animated camera flying around.

First revision:

Second revision:

Final revision:

Jump ahead to the final assignment:

GIMP was difficult to get working properly with the PSDs Maya exported, but it kind of worked. Oh well. That was the end of that class and I learned a lot about low-poly modeling. Nice!

by augustk

Updates!

Obviously I haven’t posted anything in a while. But it’s time for a change – and change is good!

I am now currently in three courses that are at least semi-relevant to this blog.

  • ANI 230 – 3D Design & Modeling
  • CSC 298 – Internship
  • GPH 321 – Computer Graphics Development I

In ANI 230, we’re learning Maya 2015. Starting with low-poly and now (it’s about midterms time) we’re onto animation with keyframes. I’m particularly interested in ray tracing, because we are building our very own in C++ in GPH 321.

As for CSC 298, it basically runs alongside the internship that I already have. Here, I’ve been working with a ton of Java stuff lately interfacing with a USB HID. Through this, I’ve learned to use Maven – let me just say it’s awesome.

Anyhow, I’ll be posting some images of the stuff I’ve been working on soon.

Also, I may move this entire blog to a domain/host I pay for now. Or maybe even use GitHub Pages and Jekyll, those look fun.

Oh and I read a few Android books, great stuff. Loving Android dev.