TARDIS

Today in class I helped Anthony with his new program and while I was doing that I worked on making the Tardis.

Rendering the Rover

Today during class I started figuring out how to render and animate the rover. I set the animation so it is on a glass pedestal rotating around. Then ill place the voice over that rotating rover.

LEAVES

Today in class I was trying to learn texturing. The video tutorial I was going was how to model a tree then texturing the trunk and the leaves.

1st and 2nd Quarter Overview

During 1st quarter I was assigned to work on a Scivis project along with Anthony. We were told to model a Mars Rover, come up with an interesting true story for it, and then set it into a video. I had not been looking forward to the project because I had never done texturing or modeling before and I had to stop making the robot that I had been looking forward to working. I had completed the base model for the Rover but I got stuck after that because I didn’t know how I was supposed to go into more detail in the design, I did not and still do not know how to texture or animate the rover either. During the second quarter I hope to finish the project so I do not have to continue working on the rover. I will need to figure out the different ways to texture projects in Maya and I will need to learn how to animate different objects as well since I have had no experience in animating projects yet. During second quarter I also want to start on another project, maybe go back to the robot and make a proper finished version of it since I was never able to before, but I am not sure what will be assigned and if it will be something with a partner again or not.

Rover 'Spirit'

Today I completed the bases for the solar panel so I need to put the textures for it on next class