Year 2 - Week 5 - October 31st - November 04th

This week has been a pretty quiet week; we started out week 5 by doing a project that we did last year again: Imagineering a vehicle. This project for me last year didn’t turn out that great; I designed a car based on organic objects in nature. It turned out okay but I fully know well I could have done 10 times better if I put my mind to it. I ended up redoing this project again at Christmas, the final design I though looked better and I had drawn down a lot more ideas though I still knew I could have done better. This time round I understand perspective a lot more and using it in just about everything I do, I believe that anything can be drawn in perspective as some people don’t, I apply perspective to everything now if people like it or lump it. I’ve noticed lately how some people are submitting work on FaceBook were everything looks good and rendered and the perspective looks right as you first see the image but when you analyze it, it’s wrong... I won’t name anyone or post any images however...

I’ve turned into a complete perspective perfectionist, if the perspective I even slightly off I’ll rework it. Anyway this time round I have thought that the brief for my vehicle design can be (if I’m not mistaken) that there is no vehicle that can allow you to fully navigate on top and underwater as high speeds, thus I wanted to create a vehicle allowing the user to do so creating a submarine that can be used as a boat for fishing etc and that can be used as a speedboat also.  Doing so in which allows the user to travel though harsh vast waves of the seas without being in danger of getting thrown overboard or drowning pretty much, if you were to hit dangerous crashing waves you can simply turn the vehicle from a normal boat into a submarine thus avoid danger. It allows you to also explore the sea bed and nature within it at high speeds if you wish however on another occasion you can simply travel the sea in ‘speed boat mode’ or travel at a slow steady pace and use it for fishing if you wish. My initial idea was to allow it to do all 3 things giving the user more option when travelling on water. I think it’s a good idea and I’ve drawn down quite a few plans, this vehicle project I must say is 10 times the idea I had last year and I’m happy with how it’s gone, being more ambitious about it I’ve gone and made a white box model of it.

I thought it turned out really well, it took about an hour and it is really high poly may it be noted. I’ve drawn a lot of ideas and using perspective has really helped in the development, I’ve learnt that perspective does apply to everything and with it you can just about design everything. I probably do a blog in the near future about perspective and talk about my vehicle project more.

Not sure of a name for it.

In 3D we continued with the trash project, I have to say it’s way too easy, I’ve other things on my mind that I want to do and I also want to move onto the next project which is the... dare I say it? Self portrait project! I‘m definitely going to need more time on that as I struggled like crazy with the gladiator project, the rigging was a bitch to say the least, in fact the whole thing was thus I want to get on with it quick and forget the whole thing. I’ve got the trash done and unwrapped which took (and I am in no way am kidding) took 2 days... Just 2 days to make the thing, we’ve been given 500 triangles for it but I couldn’t think of anything else to do with it, mine is about 160 triangles, but what more can you do with boxes, they are just squares that take up about 10 triangles each! Maybe I’ll come back and improve it later.