Lightwave 3

What can I say about this week’s class?

I feel it was probably my most successful yet; I managed to do the assigned tasks, eat something and go home all in the one day and with minimal need to swear, threaten or break the computers.

The major focus figures with a low polygon count. Easy enough done following the instructions. The real treat is pushing the Tab key and smoothing out the edges on the figure.

The Boolean and bevel tool were the ones most commonly used, as well as the symmetry function for creating multiple things that look alike, in this case arms and legs.

We used the text tool I had limited success in bending it however but am fairly sure that I'll get the hang of the bending and stretching later, until then I had a word that looked like a tornado.

A few extras that I added to my polygon person I put in butt cheeks and a helmet. I'm not good around childish temptations and the symmetry function made it so easy with the click of a button or two and the dragging of the mouse.

Next week more work.

Lightwave 2

Ah Lightwave, what can I say, I think I am starting to get the hang of doing some basic things in the program. I still find a few ways to mess up the work I am doing but most of that comes down to not knowing all of the basics of the program.
This means I know enough to help Brendan out but not enough to completely finish my own work.

Today was frypan day the most holy day in the uni calendar... we celebrate with offerings of fried eggs, bacon pancakes and other assorted foods thrown for varying amounts of time until the food is cooked. This is not true for television chefs they only "cook" the food until it is pinker and bloody on the inside then the outside.

On a more relevant note the class started the kitchens today by making the frypan. It is fairly simple in construction provided that all the computer and program's settings are on zero or neutral (poor Tash had one with some crazy settings) Basically it is a disk that is stretched and bevelled into a bowl shape and a rectangular prism shape stuck on the side and shaped to look more like a handle.

Already I can see a lot of potential for me with this program but that also means a lot of room for some horrendous mistakes. Still I'd like to try and "sculpt" a dragon it may be a little too ambitious at the moment but if I can find a copy of the program and a computer to run it on it'd be nice to give it a whirl.

Well that’s a lot of text I'm off for another week.
Not to be confused with off because of expiry dates as I wasn't born with one unless you are some kind of super natural type person then you can just keep that information to yourself.

Till next time

Work placement 2

Not much has changed since last week.
There is still no where for us to go but we have been placed to the top of the list of people to place which is something good. I spent the morning reading comics then class started we talked about the skills we needed for the jobs we are aiming for a lot of the skills were interchangeable and others were specific to what we were doing. The last group activity was looking at possible job adds in the industry we wanted. After that left to our own devices I made notes for the graduation exhibition. Hopefully next week the writings here will be of more relevance

Work placement 1

This blog here is to keep track of my work done during my work placement class.
As it is week one and an assortment of problems have come up like the rest of the class we do not have our work placement job sites yet. As placement has yet to start the information in the posts will become more relevant and useful. Until then it is nonsense or nothing, as you can see I made my decision.

Lightwave 1

There are two versions of this week’s Lightwave class, the short version and the long version.

The short version ran a little something like this, welcome back, here is some new people to introduce and here is some work to do.

The long version goes for about 3 hours and is in real time, and seeing as I already lived through it I'm not going to put write that down.

Today we started on the 3D program Lightwave, it comes in two parts a modelling section and a filming section. It is one of the most complex programs I have seen, with the use of both mouse buttons and case sensitive hotkeys.

So far I can see a vast opportunity to make some real stuff ups, the main thing to remember is after finishing with a tool to press spacebar otherwise the last shape will stretch to where the mouse last clicked.

Assessment project 1 is to make a surreal kitchen; it only has to be surreal so we do not get too stressed out about the fine details. So far the best idea I've got is a zebra skin teapot I'm sure things will improve as I learn more of the program.

Seeing as I've nothing more productive to write on the subject today I am signing out catch you next time folks

Filler 6, 7 and 8

Filler 6 through 8 went out drinking and never came back in time to be posted.

Uni has started back so regular posts relevant to the my lightwave class and my work placement class starting very shortly.

Gotta go back and start paying attention to what work I'm supposed to be doing now.

Filler 5

As the title suggests more filler

This toilet wall
With all it's wit
One would think
Shakespear himself
Came here to shit

Stick around the quality of these things has not even come close to touching bottom yet.

More filler next week.

Dont worry uni starts back in a few more weeks.