PROGRESS UPDATE

During the past two class periods I have been experimenting with the new motion tracking technology called Kinect Integrate Technology. This will let you track your basic skeletal movements and will record them for playback, allowing to make short movie scenes if needed. This will allow for people with a low budget to do some things that would regularly cost a large fortune just for the technology needed to preform these tasks. Here is a screen shot of the skeletal movements:

This is actually me in my skeletal form and is my movements that are followed in the orange blur movement and the rest is a very basic form of my skeleton. I am currently attempting to figure out how to make it so that we can record two bodies at one time to be displayed in the same frame. This will take some time to figure out how to do.

Twists-COMPLETE

This is a project where we took several extruded edges from a cube and made them go in many different directions. This was a easy project because it didn't require much work at all to do or complete. This was a very short timed project. Here is a picture of my completed project.

Phaser Preparation Phase

Today I began watching the Phaser videos so I can learn how to make the phaser. So far this is going to be only so I get an idea of what i'm modeling and how to do it. So here is a screenshot of the video just showing that i'm preparing for the next project.

COMPLETED Orange

Today I completed a Orange project where we had to color and assign a texture to the given orange. This was a easy project because it didn't require much work except for coloring the orange to a orange color. And to assign a material to it so it would have the texture of the orange. Here is a slightly pixilated picture of the completed orange.

Apple- Day 2- COMPLETED!

Today I've completed a apple rendering and this was one of the easiest of the projects that I've done. Here is a picture of the apple below. This was such an easy project because it was nothing more than changing many settings and attributes in Maya. I hope most of the projects that we do this semester are as simple or comprehensible as this one. This actually looks like a real apple to me and not something that can be made to look close to it but almost exact.

Made By: Eric

Apple- Day 1

Today I've started a new project with an apple that i have to color. So far this project will be very easy because it is simply rearranging the colors of the preassembled project. Here is a picture of the project so far.

Completed Helmet

Early on today I completed the helmet after attempting to get this program at my house but not being able to,  i was able to complete the helmet today by correcting a few small errors that i've made from the last few days. I am going to move on to the next project, here is the picture.

Helmet Day 5

Today I've started to make it so that the helmet can be merged with the mouth guard on my helmet. This requires adjusting the shapes so that they will fit together correctly and they would not have any faults. The following image is a screen shot of today's work and I've made it so that all of the edges near the inside are bent inwards to better fit the mouth guard.

Beveling

Today we learned that every object has a bevel. We learned how to use the offset tool to control how much the object is offset and beveled. So this project is a very easy and fast one that doesn't require much skill to do. This was the fastest project i've done and hopefully will remain the easiest and be a good experience to use later. Here is a picture of my first objects that are selected to show the edges.

Here is a second picture with the objects rounded to show the curves of the object.

Here is a new project where I created only four objects and made them beveled in only selected areas.

Here is a second screen shot showing the images without being selected.

This project overall was a very good learning experience with very little confusion or difficulty.
-Eric