Motivational Workshop - Action Jackson

Yesterday we had a workshop from a company called Fix Up UK. we had this guy talk to us about life and how your brain tells you that you can't do something, when in reality you can. He showed us this by putting up a big collage of pictures and images, he then read a story that related to the images, afterwards we all remembered all 24 of the images and it showed me that i can do it even if my brain says i can't. I think that Action Jackson was brilliant because he encoouraged us all to work much harder and that if we work hard enough we can acheive our dreams

The bottom four icons are the finished ones i have made by myself

our task was to create five icons based on the four themes- Horror, Fantasy, War, and Sci-fi and another one using a model we had made in 3d max. For my first icon i drew a rocket with smoke behind it, i edited it on photoshop and added a lichtenstein effect to the colour, for my second icon i drew a charatcer in manga and gave him a sword i also edited it in photoshop and added a gradient background of green and blue because these are colours that are used in fantasy. For my horror icon i drew a picture of a skull and a knife, i then added a blood effect to the knife and coloured the skull a bright white. For my sci-fi icon i drew a picture of a droid and changed it to avoid plagiarism,i then added a gradient effect to the background. For my last icon i simply imported a render of my robot i had made in 3d max i then cropped out the background and added a gradient background.

 This is a professional example of an iphone app icon. This icon is for the game angry birds, it was designed by rovio mobile, this icon is much better than mine because it is a much better quality and is professionally designed to suit the product, this porduct also relates to the game because in the game you start off using this red bird.

Today in 3d max we  learnt how to use textures and also how to use the UVW mapping on 3d max, which is a  process called unwrap UVW by highlighting the faces one by one we made an area for putting the photo onto and print screened it on to photoshop. we then made the textures we wanted to make on the house using images from the internet

My Boat

Corridor Using Lighting

Today in Class we made a corridor using lights. To make the corridor first we got a box and converted it into an editable mesh, then we deleted the top and side polygons to make it look like a drainpipe shape. We then clicked on a button that said "show normals" which made the outside polygons visible in the render but not the inside polygons, but we needed it to be the other way round so we clicked flip this then made it so the inside polygons were visible and not the outside polygons. After that we created a cone which was going to be a lampshade we then placed it on the top of the roof and created a spotlight coming from it, then to create more lights we simply cloned the lights untill we had enough lights , some of us then changed the colour of the lights to make them our own.

Spot Lights

 Today In 3D Max we made some spot lights, we first made a simple plane in the top view port and then we clicked the tab that said "lights", we then clicked the button that said "Spotlight" and made one in the Front viewport, after we hade made the light we played around with aspects of the light such as, decay, fall-off, and colour of the light. We also experimented with shapes to see how the light affected the shape.

My Swimming Pool

I made a swimming pool using a cylinder and some boxes i edited them to make the pool and also a ladder.