Recently I have been cooped up with the Computer Animation project. It took me 2 weeks to do the modelling of my Lamborghini Gallardo/Murcielago. Why I said is Gallardo/Murcielago? Gallardo doesn't have scissors door for it, while Murcielago has scissors door. So I merged both of their design together. Well, it was a tough job. Both of their door design wasn't the same. Gallardo was rather curved in, while the other was straight through till the back rim. Jinghui said that my Lamborghini going to be like a Tamiya car soon.

I am still thinking what to do for the 3 minutes of animation. I am not sure how will it be going on for Nelson's class, they have to do 4 minutes instead. That will be 5760 of frames to be animated. Not much to say for the rendering part, it already took me to 50 minutes to do a rendering of just 3 seconds. I am sure 3 minutes of animation, I will have to on the computer for the whole day.

Usually for this kind of 3D modelling project, teachers will tend to mark on either your rendering skills or how well you use your modifiers to design your object. Rendering skills will focus mainly on the lighting and reflection that is shone upon irregular surfaces. For modifiers, they check on how well you use them. The lesser shortcuts you use in your modifiers to complete your object the better it is, well of course be sure to check for loopholes. For example a line/gap in your joints, is a spot-on for them.

For those doing 3D Animation, you should check this video out. This has been the best modelling I have seen so far. He uses the template for Wall-E character. However it uses the 'bone tool' to animate the whole character. I have just learnt this tool today. Marvellous combinations in terms of modelling, materials, and detailed feature for the wheel tracks. Usually such tracks it tend to follow perpendicular to your shape, but for his it fully animates towards the environment of the 3 rollers. It means the tracks rolls on irregular basis, rather than a triangular shape.

Well, besides the tough work in hand. I do still play my Restaurant City! Even though now I don't appear in the top 7 list for me. Too many Level 27 friends in my list, making me to appear at ranked 8th. One of my friend has already over 1.2 million experience. I am not sure how Playfish is going to handle for this on the level ladder. The person might be in Level 46 if it was implemented. Now there is this grading system for the restaurant. So there will be new trophies to get! I have to rate 100 over restaurants. I only rated 40 of them. Restaurant City is a memory-eater, seeing the browser's process to use over 120MB of my memory.
Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 01:18