Castle in MAYA

The scope of this project was to create a castle with four walls and four pole things and insert a door. I first started to make the pole things aka things that connect the wall. Not sure what I should call them. I used a cylinder for this and raised the top of the poles up so it would look as if it was a real castle. I had to use many different tools to get the top of the edges to stick up and have groves on them. At first I couldn't figure it out, so I asked a partner by me to help me out. I copied and pasted the pole four times, so I could have it in each corner. I then took the cube tool to make the walls. I only had to make one wall because I could just copy and paste the other three. I had to use the face tool and then change the subdivisions so that I could make the ridges on the walls as well. I copied and pasted the other three. I had to figure out different buttons to rotate my walls and get them in the exact position that I wanted them to be in. Making the door was probably the easiest part of the whole project. All I did was make another cube and raised up. Then I positioned it on the wall where I wanted a whole to be for my door. After that I went up to one of the tabs to bullion and then I hit difference button. That got rid of both the cube and where I put the cube on the wall. I then added a texture to both the walls and the poles. I did that by selecting all the walls at once then right clicking and go down to add new and then select lambert. After I did that I went to the channel box where it should say lambert. I changed the color texture in the tab there. To get the actual color to appear on my screen I hit the number seven on my key board. 

  Technically, I learned how to bullion new objects to create a door. I could use this in the future when creating different objects. Maya helped me expand my knowledge to learn new things. By learning different programs it will help me be able to understand and try new things for a new program faster. My teamwork worked out because I got help from others and also helped other people with certain things. Project deadlines weren't so good for me. It took me a little longer to do this and I feel like the teacher moved on too fast, but in the real world I have to suck it up. Next time I will know the keys better, so I should be able to finish on time. 

  Next time I would figure out how to add a brick door instead of it just being blank. I would also try to add some flags on the castle and maybe a knight guy. I would not do my poles any differently because I think they came out perfect. The experiences with maya will help me in the future to create more things in maya or in any other software like maya. I generally thought this castle could have been better. I think I should just look over shortcut keys before we learn a new software program.

Below are screenshots of my castle!!!

Hammer Time

The scope of this project was to create a 3D model of a hammer and a nail in Maya. The process of this hammer was a lot of steps. I first made a small cube to the raise it up. I created the hammers handle. I then tried to make a hammer head. I messed up so many times before I decided to look at the directions. The actual hammer head flat part in my opinion was the hardest to do. I couldn't get it to look round. I finally realized all I had to do was change the vertex to make them look all around. I then had to add a texture to the handle so it wouldn't look boring. I wanted my floor layer to be purple due to the fact that my favorite color is purple. I created my nail without looking at the directions because I just wanted to wing it. 

  Along the way I learned a lot about the vertex, face, and other uses to make my objects look different. I had some troubles doing this project and I wasn't able to fix every little mistakes. The handle was kinda cricked and way to tall. I got the height down I think. My collaboration skills with working with others went well. I helped my neighbor create her hammer head by teaching her the different steps she should you. She also helped me by explaining how to add a texture to my hammer. I didn't quite get this one in on time because of the fact animation itself just takes me longer than most kids and I wanted mine to look normal.

  Next time I would make more nails and maybe add a table if I had time. I would also redo my hammer to make it straight looking. I would do my hammer head the same, but it would take me a lot less time making because of the fact I know how to do it. I would use the knowledge of how to create different lights and put them into different positions for my next project. My general thought of this project was just okay, I'm not too found of animation.

  

Below are screen shots of my hammer and nail with different cast shadows!!!

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         In this video I interviewed Darby Christiansen on how her 2016 summer went.  Darby's summer was packed. She went to mutiple places but her favorite was her trip to Japan. Darby went on this trip with her father. Her father has been to Japan multiple times and decided to take his daughter over the summer break. Darby says "this is trip I definitely will never forget." She had to go on about a 13 hour plane flight to Japan. From there she and her dad had to take a train to the place where they were staying. Darby explained to me that the food is very different and not what she expected. Darby knew some Japanese before going, but she quickly picked up on more of the language while she was there. I asked Darby what her worst memory in Japan was and she told me "do not go on a subway in the middle of the day!" Darby did in fact get lost on the subway and couldn't find her dad for a while. Darby also told me if she could take anyone to Japan with her next time she would pick her best friend in Texas. She and her seemed to have a really good friendship until she moved to Olathe, Kansas. On Darby's last day in Texas, her and her friend rode her bike up and down the streets at about midnight. I discovered that Darby loves to listen to music and draw in her free time. Darby would rate this trip with her father 100/100. Wow! 

My experience with writing my voice over went really well. I put my name at the beginning and spelled it out for my viewers. After that I had to say who I work for. I did end up having to take multiple shots of my voiceover because I sounded like a robot in just about all of the clips. When I finally got the clip that I wanted and I put the voiceover at the beginning of my interview so that my viewers knew what exactly what I was talking about/ what was going on.  

Filming was different than another video that I would be filming. Instead of creating a story board all I did was come up with about 20 questions to ask Darby about her story. I then figured out a order to ask the questions to Darby. Next I decided to find good lighting throughout the whole school. I picked the perfect spot and started filming. I still had to get the 6 shot system in my video (6 shot system is in my last post). Filming the different positions of the interview was tricky. After filming I edited the video.

In this video I really like how I added clips from Darby plane ride to my video. I also added clips from the subway. I like how I did this because it is different from the rest of my classmates. Also, instead of having clips that just said the question and then have the interview people say their answer... I had my questions as a voiceover. All in all this was a great experience to be able to learn how to interview people and edit in a video.