So, the first assignment is to create three models based on vehicles, ships etc. from the Star Wars Universe. My initial thoughts when we were shown the picture of the incredibly detailed Imperial Star Destroyer were along the lines of, "Oh god that thing is huge, how am I ever going to meet that kind of standard?" The answer is I'm not, not yet anyway.
Our first task in week one was to learn the basic tools and interface of 3D Studio Max, which was easy enough, as I've done a couple of weeks of Maya tutorials in my own time, I may even post up the two models I made during that time if I feel it is relevant at all, which it might not be since we're working in Max.
After learning the interface we were given an exercise to make a simple model of a house, which was easy enough, once I figured out where to connect the edges to. Here's the result of that...
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| House exercise |
The exercise after that was to create a castle, and here is my first attempt, which is still incomplete when this blog is posted, but it's further along now.
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| Castle Work in Progress - first sucessful attempt. |
The Upper keep is just a scaled down version of the lower one, before the door was added, and the walls were extruded out. You can't really see it from this angle, but there are stairs leading to a doorway from the side walls into the keep. I'm proud of my idea to do crenellations on the walls, and my friends like them too. I thought the flag was a nice touch...
On to the Star Wars stuff! I was toying for ages with ideas of what to model, and it stalled me from posting for a few weeks. Now though, I have a concrete idea of what to make for my three models, and a storyboard to go with it!
But first, a research board with images for my first ideas for modelling on it:
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| Research Board |
After much deliberation, I couldn't think of a reason to put the AT-AT walker on Tatooine with a Sandcrawler... What a shame, it would have been cool... Anyway, the models I'm going to make are the Jawa Sandcrawler, R2-D2 and the X-34 Landspeeder owned by Luke Skywalker.
This is the storyboard of the animation I'm planning to make using them, each scene is numbered so I'll briefly explain each one below the picture.
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| Storyboard first draft |
1 - Camera is above the Sandcrawler, you can see the landspeeder a short distance ahead.
2 - Camera pans down to the side as the Sandcrawler rumbles to a stop by the X-39 Landspeeder.
3 - The side exit of the Sandcrawler is focused on by the camera as the door slides to the side.
4 - The ramp extends out of the side of the sandcrawler.
5 - The camera pans in further as R2-D2 rolls out onto the ramp and descends.
6 - The camera pans around R2 as he reaches the bottom of the ramp to bring the landspeeder into view
7 - R2 begins to rise upwards next to the landspeeder
8 - R2 hovers over the top of the landspeeder as the camera slowly rotates towards the front of the landspeeder.
9 - The droid descends into the seat of the landspeeder.
10- The camera lowers so it is facing directly towards the front of the landspeeder, as it begins to accelerate towards the camera.
11-The camera rotates to face the rear of the landspeeder as it goes past.
12- The landspeeder zooms off into the distance while the camera stays still.
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Hopefully I can fit all of that into 30 seconds...
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