Hello Again! Week 2 has come and gone and I have some wonderful updates. There, that should draw you in enough to read everything I type. It has been a good, but fast week. It would seem to always be the case when a bigger project is given but at least it was a busy and productive week. Time flies when something is due!
We started the week off strong on Tuesday in Modeling 100 with Joe. Learned some more valuable XSI tricks and started on our journey to create an interior environment. Something I am familiar with but with a bit of a difference for me. We can use as many polygons as we wish! No need to worry about keeping the mesh clean or anything like that, just an exercise to learn to model hard surfaces in XSI. Even with the no restrictions restriction, I wasn’t able to bring myself to go as crazy as I could have. The assignment isn’t due until week 4 so I still have plenty of time. Here are a couple screens of what I currently have. I deviated quite a bit from the concept I found but when given freedom, take it.
Next up was some good old classical animation with Brett. I gave you a taste of my magical drawings brought to life last week and I intend to do the same this week! Unfortunately you will have to wait until Monday to see what I have done. I didn’t get a chance to re-record my animation after some changes but I will be able to get it going and post it on Monday. I will make it an edit in this original post and keep it a surprise until then. Don’t get your hopes up or anything. I haven’t yet finished my first, full length, feature film.
Here we are! The animation to end all animations!
Wednesday was an easy day. A day of learning and simply applying. We had Scott for 3D Animation 100 and Chad for XSI 100. Scott got us bouncing a ball through a hoop in XSI and then posing Mr. Wile E. Coyote. Simple exercises but we got to mess around with a rigged character so it was good, but only because we didn’t have to rig it. Nothing to show here though. Some simple poses with a character I didn’t make or rig isn’t a whole lot to brag about. After Scott came Chad. Chad gave us an excellent lesson on materials in XSI and then told us we were to apply some of these materials to our environment scene in Modeling 100. I will be applying these on Monday as well as I wanted to have as much of my environment done before I went at it.
Thursday was a lesson in Production 100 with Scott and Digital Imaging 100 with Peter. Scott gave us a lesson on lighting in XSI and Peter showed us how to make our own Frankenstein using bits and pieces of things we find on the internet. ITS ALIVE!
Last class of the week is Life Drawing 100. We had a nude, male model this week and I produced the same unfortunate drawings I did last week. I have promised my mother that I will show her some of them but no one who reads this blog will ever see these insults to our wonderful models.
A good week! It was nice to always have something to work on especially because it was something I am used to working on. We managed to use the theatre room as well this week for a viewing of “Fight Club.” Such a sweet movie. Once Saturday night rolled around I was good to go for some serious gaming. I busted out about 5 hours of Fallout 3 so I am still moving along in the wastelands. Also, it would seem I have brought some Saskatchewan weather along with me. Some major snow the last couple days so I am going to chalk another one up to Vancouver because I am sure that if I ever leave Vancouver, it won’t be fickle and try to get revenge on me! Vancouver 2, Saskatchewan 0.
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