Lighting and Rendering (Fall 2012)

Previous experience: 2 months
Duration of class: 4 months

Project 01 - Hallway Scene [9.19.12]
Leaning to apply textures to an object

Project 02 - HDRI [9.24.12]
Understanding HDRIs and trying out shads

Project 03 - Boiler Room [10.03.12]
Working with lighting more, Nurbs

 

Project 04 - Roof Top Scene [10.08.12]
Image based lighting, focus on lighting with color

Project 05 - Train Scene [10.16.12]
Creating shaders, working with light fog

Personal Progress:

Start of the semester [9.19.12]

Revised at the end of the semester [12.06.12] 3 months later, Video Link

Final Project - Create your own scene [12.06.12] Create objects, use found obj, light it, and render push-in Video Link

Created: Desk, Hutch, Binders, Composition Notebooks, CDs, Post-its, Stack of paper, Mouse-pad, Crown molding, working Window, Chair mat, cCrkboard, oh yeah, and the Working Filing Cabinet (with folders)! Other Objects and Textures found online. Bump maps created and applied. Shaders found on CreativeCrash. Created and composited an Ambient Occlusion.

Beginning 3D Animation (Summer 2012)

I started this class with no prior knowledge of 3D animation and the software used.

Project 01 - (Missing)
Objective: to create an abstract cityscape using basic, geometric blocks and to become familiar with the Maya interface.

Project 02 - Bioform
Objective: to create an abstract object, and to become familiar with the basic elements used in modeling

Bioform - Abstract Model beginning modeling, leaning the basics to extruding	Bioform - continued basic 3-point lighting used to highlight object

Project 03 - Final: Automaton
Objective: to create an animation using the basic modeling techniques; blinn and ambert matirials; basic lighting; and parent-child constraint.

The final specs to Archy and Fly's designs.
Complete design and creation, 2012 by Alexandra M. Guerin

Archy watching his fly friend
His curiosity is shown without facial expression

The Breakdown: Archy sees a fly go by.  He is happy and dances. He notices that he has wings too. He tries flapping the wings, but doesn't fly. He becomes sad.

Folding Forms

Assignment: 
To use and understand shape-tweens. The 280px square must be filled with #999999 from the start, and returned to the same color at the finish. You must fold all four corners, make two cut-outs, and fold the corners from the cut-outs (You don't have to fold all the cut-out corners). Each fold must take two seconds and hold for a second. Each cut-out must take a second, then hold a second.

Exquisit Corpse: A Chain Story (#6)

  Link to YouTube

This was my first animation that was made from a drawing and my first lip-sync. The process required drawing a self-portrait caricature and scanning it into the computer, where I then used it as a guild in Adobe Flash. In the end, I created all the elements in this animation all by hand, before scanning.

Starting this animation off didn’t go very well. The problem was in my drawing. I was using a drawing that could be a lot better, so I scraped the animation and started over.

After recreating the self-portrait and also drawing out the other elements, I was able to start the revision on a better foundation. A few things that I should fix would be the sauce that the aliens leave behind. It could be more gooey and less like a line drawn across the paper. Another fix, would the fuel line that falls off the rocket ship. It really should be more detailed and look more like the fueling line of a car, less like a panel falling off.

La Machine

The first stand-alone assignment for my class. The assignment was to have 5 animated items; one ball, one with a hinge, one that spins, the use of squash-and-stretch, and an open interpretation. The set-up is in black and white, with the use of one other color.

Logo Design

"Standard: a line of simple, functional, high quality, clothing made regionally in the USA."

The Big Idea Project

CRIT:
I found the critic to be really confusing on this one. When making the project, I was going to make it so that the outside had a bunch of ads wallpapered, and on the inside have it be blank. The idea was an interpretation of how I felt bought advertisements. As I was making it, I was told to change it into a trap, sending the message that advertisements are a trap to consumers and to leave the outside blank wood, as if it were a rabbit trap or something. As we did critics, I was then told I should have wallpapered the outside with ads, which completely threw me though a loop.

In the end though, I felt that the ads were better left on the inside, because a trap needs to be plain, since you want to throw off the person that it is a trap. I think the plainess of the outside really works with the deception of "Trap." You don't expect it to be one, but it is. There should have been more ads taped to the inside though, to give a more cluttered appeal of advertisements in our society.


photos are by Dana

Inflatopia

In the beginning of the inflatables project things weren't turning out so well because we were trying to make things way more complicated than the structure needed to be, but in the end things went really well. We felt pretty good about the shower stall and the fact that it could hold more than 4 people but not a lot of people wanted to enter it (a few did but not a lot) and even though most people didn't enter the shower everyone that walked by wanted to draw on it which made it a big hit we thought. The wind was a big problem because even though we had things to weigh down the shower, if there was a big gust of wind the structure would try to fall over. Maggie liked her performance piece for the shower because she said it was nice to sleep in which is something we all really needed. In the end we ended up not using a lot of energy because we used a small fan instead of leaf blowers to inflate the shower.

[Thanks Lee.] :D

[Life Drawing] Best of: Weekly Drawing

[Life Drawing] Best of: Weekly Drawing

Wash Lecture Assignment #3 - Autobiography Mapping

CRIT

 We didn't do a critic on this project, which I am eternally grateful for. I wasn't to thrilled with making an autobiography, and I hadn't a clue how to make my life into a piece of work. After viewing other people's work, I realise I could have just focused on one part of my life and not my life as a whole. Before seeing everyone's work though, I struggled with the idea of an entire life in one sculpture. I just didn't know how to put such massive information into one thing, and I really didn't feel like opening myself up that wide. The artwork widely reflect my struggle and displeasure in the project.

Some advice given to me, was to make it filled with more words. The floor of the structures should be filled with more questions about what makes an autobiography. The words on the building floor should be screen printed on, so that the wood showed through.

Metaphor Projecty. Pink Razerblades of Hair

 

CRIT

There wasn't an individual critic for this project, but what I originally saw after I finished the project, was that the neck looked to be broken. Not in the physical since, but what the form looked like. I had made the neck too small for one thing, and there is an awkward curve to the neck, not the angle a real neck it is supposed to have. The cranium is off as well. I forgot the outward  "shelf" like part to the head. The hair was also off to what I had envisioned. After failing to drill a hole in the box-cutter blades, I simply hot-glued them onto the wire structure. The form of the blades looks more like a helmet, I am told, than actually hair.

Overall, the artwork is nice to look at, but it lacks the certain element that would make it more interesting to look at. I believe that making it larger would help the blades fit into the form better, or to find smaller blades. The neck needs to be fixed, defiantly, and the smaller wire should be condenser.