Thursday, May 15, 2014

My Ecomm Junior Final that is exactly 1000 words


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Friday, March 14, 2014

Final Blog/Update 5

I finished and the projects is rendering so the file will be posted when it is done. I had a lot of issues early on in my project once I started working on the boots. They turned out looking fine however I spent at least a week working on them because a few faces got moved to the wrong place. They also had a ton of edges that weren't supposed to be there and they caused a lot of the issues including the material assignment one where every time I would open the project about half my colors would change. The other problem would come when I tried to change or add a new color in which the boots would change into the color of the dress and the dress became the color of the skin. The project in turned out exactly how I wanted it in the end except maybe the headpiece which looks more like poorly made hair because I wasn't able to edit it well enough to get the exact shape I wanted. Making the skeleton had a few minor issues but I was able to get it done without anything big happening, however a few parts were made different than the tutorials from Lynda. The animation went well also, and I had almost zero issues other than the tail bending and fusing with everything else because I bound it as skin instead of making it its own object, but I was able to fix it. I think the project went well because I met all of my due dates, and the only thing I was late on was posting a picture of the background because I only had time to make the post during class and didn't get to take the picture of the test render.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Animation Update 4

The background is finished, but I didn't have time in class to add the picture so it will be added first thing tomorrow in class, I need to add a platform but it will probably be part of the final animation as opposed to the background since the character interacts with it. I pretty much learned nothing at this part because I have done this before.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Animation Update 2 & 3

This picture covers both update 2 and 3 in the picture because they both tie in with each other and it is easier like this because I am past this part since I am ahead of my due dates and I don't have a picture in-between or an older save. A few colors are still messed up but will be fixed in the final render. This part was probably the longest and hardest due to the materials not wanting to cooperate and the program changing stuff when I opened it. It was fixed by cleaning some stuff up.

Animation Update 1

This is the photo of the basic model. One of the colors are different in the render than in the scene for some reason but it will be fixed in later parts. This is from yesterday I just got so caught up in working since I just love work that I forgot to post it. I learned that Maya sucks sometimes and this part along with 2/3 took the longest because the materials I would assign didn't really want to cooperate.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Project Outline


·      Begin Modeling – Model the basic character
o   Blog basic model pictures
o   Due: March 10th
·      Details – Add details to the character model
o   Blog detailed model pictures
o   Due: March 11th
·      Add Special Parts – Fix the model to include the ears, tail, and paws, and dress.
o   Blog pictures of model with less human-like qualities and dress
o   Due: March 12th
·      Background – Add all of the background objects and the ground.
o   Blog pictures of the scene with a completed background
o   Due: March 13th
·      Animating – Have character "walk" and end in the "pose".
o   Blog final animation as a video file of the walking and ending in the pose.
o   Due: March 14th

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

My Personality Type

It is all mostly true however even if I try to be flexible I am not a lot of the time unless I am with people I don't know as well. I am rather quiet and contained when I am around people I don't know and don't share feelings with anyone unless I am extremely close to someone. Famous INTPs include Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, John Locke, James Madison, and Rene Descartes.



 I think the type was rather spot on for the most part, and was only really wrong about one thing. I think it is spot on with being skeptical, critical, and analytical. It was also right about Being interested in ideas and being rather abstract. It was really only wrong about being a being flexible and afaptable because I try to be however I don't really like it.

The personality type does give me a somewhat better understanding of who I am. It also make it rather obvious to me as to why I enjoy doing the things that I do and explains my interests. It also explains why I have such a cool exterior, which I very much have.

It clarifies my position on teams and in a group. I don't like being in the center or the "star" on a team. I would rather play a supporting role and do a small and less noticeable part. When the role matches up with my personality type it usually means that I can do a better job and finish it easily. When I am in a role that conflicts with it I don't do a very good job and it usually takes a while.

People in the past have thought I was a mean or cold person due to me being quite around them. Others have thought me to be rather annoying because they have only seen me around the few people I am actually really comfortable with. My sister and mother are both people I don't really get along with due to conflicting personality types and the unwillingness to accept each others.

I haven't really learned much other than how other people can view me and I view them. I already knew most of the stuff but I just hadn't really read it.