3D studio light project

What I wanted to create was an imitation of an interrogation table. I applied materials to the floor (carpet from a website), to the table (stainless steel clip from a website) and I created my own glass material in the material editor maps for the lamps.

Week 8 sketch

Journal Week 8, blog two

This is Japans Largest lego city, circa 1997. I posted this because I thought it was relevant to the 3d design program that we've been working with. I know they are two totally different realms of creating, but the principle is similar. Someone had to have an idea and use their building side of their brain to make it real. Thoughts like: "How tall should that part be? How thin, how wide? What color? Next to what? Leading to what?" These are all some of the decisions an designer has to make. The effort and the strain and the computations are the process that makes an end product so magnificent, or even miniscule. Regardless, a lego city or a lamp, it had to be built.

Journal Week 8 blog one

"Where the Wild Things Are" was such an amazing adventure. It brought me back to childhood when the mind was fearless and the heart was whole and full of imagination. I remember reading the book as a kid and I honestly did not think they could turn it into a film. I thought it was too abstract to make into motion. However, they did an excellent job. The thing I was most astounded by was the incredible graphics. Those monsters looked real! It even instilled some fear in me. I know I've been wanting to become apart of the creative production of film and this movie confirmed it. I want to be the person with the ideas of how to turn a fairy tale into an adventure that costs 9 dollars to see and serves as a time machine. The producers of this movie captured something and what an accomplishment it was. Now my mission is to find a way there.....

Journal, Week 7, blog 2

Over the weekend I was listening to some techno music. I started to wonder if the soundwaves of the music had a color, what would it be? I think that music, promotes a mood. I also believe that every mood ignites a color. That led to my realization that not only is techno music amazing to listen to with your eyes closed , but that visual art is connected to music. I think the easiest way to understand this is through dance. The tango, for example, is red with high peaking sound waves and tense tones. The balet, Swan lake, would be blue with long melodies. In conclusion, I'm starting to see how all the arts are connected.

Journal Entry, Week 7 blog one

I was very inspired by the artist Trenton Doyle Hancock when watching him featured in the documentary Art 21. His art is one hundred percent original and unlike anything I could have ever even imagined. His work is provocative and disturbing when looked at up close. It's the stuff of dreams, or of nightmares. The thing that draws me in about this artist is his abnormality. He's able to put himself in his work and make it come alive. I think that is a necessary key with every artist; that they can't be afraid of what they might produce. They have to let their imagination unfold into something that can be appreciated by the rest of teh world.

Red and Blue Chair Sketch Up!

Sketch 6

My first attempt at character sketch.

Journal Entry, Week 6, blog 2

Here it is, the game that revolutionized it all. Pac Man opened the door to the gaming world. Something so simple as a cat and mouse routine entertained a generation. It's things like this that make me realize, "hey, they had to start somewhere"

Journal Entry, Week Six blog one

After class on Wednesday, I got really interested in Sony image works and CG animation. When I first watched Beowulf, I had no idea how it was made. Now, after learning the "pipeline" I know that they used actual actors to make the movie and then animated it all. It takes movie viewing to a whole new level when you actually realize all the steps it took to make.