CMArt Week 4

Hello,

Week 4 in CMA we played around with the Magic Bevel plug-in, which surprisingly gives you a fair bit of freedom when designing (well compared to bandsaw form last week anyway). We made a surreal teapot using that tool, learned how to add some pre-installed textures and also played with 3D text.

First off, here is a screenshot of my teapot in Modeler, the handle and spout were created using the magic bevel tool:




This is the rendered version of my teapot with some lizard skin surface texture applied to it:



Next we played around with the Text tool in modeler which seemed simple enough to use, except that I couldnt edit my text on the fly for some reason which seems silly. Anyway I played around with the magic bevel tool on my text and added another texture. Screenshots show the progress in Modeler and rendered model in Lightwave:




So far it seems from what we've learned that creating a surreal kitchen should be simple enough.

In regards to another model for the end of the semester, I would love to do something like this:

Although we'll see how good my skills are before I decide to attempt it.

CMArt Week 3

Hi again,

This week we made a few other models to add to our surreal kitchen. They were a fork, spoon and cup (which I forgot to save).

This is the spoon that I made and if I remember correctly, I used the bevel/extrude (one of the two) to make the hollow part of the spoon. Also used the boolean tool to make the whole in the back of the spoon. Here are some screenshots of how the spoon came out:



This is the rendered version in Lightwave, pretty average looking but you get the gist of it.




Ok so after that we did a fork also. We were introduced to the 'Bandsaw' plug-in, which is a plug in that basically lets you slice/divide your object into several equal/unequal parts (such as the head of a fork). I did a couple of forks, one I just did by manipulating polygons and points by myself and one using the bandsaw plug-in. Here are the rendered versions of both:

My version

Bandsaw version

I think I like my version better of the two anyway. I also made a wine glass which I must have forgotten to save, but i've got the instructions written down somewhere so it's all good.

CMArt Week 2

Hi there to all.

As I had missed the first week's class I have had to jump in completely clueless as to what is going on with Lightwave and Modeler.

After the first half hour or so playing around with creating a bowl in Modeler I was completely confused, although as time progressed it seemed easier to use and understand (at the very basic level) so I am a bit more confident already in designing something half decent.

We made a few different bowls in class and the lit them up in Lightwave. Here was one I did:



Anyway, after my first class I still have no idea what I would like to create as a final piece for the subject, maybe a dream house or something? (boringggg) So we'll see as I learn the programs a little better.