Maya 3.3

Didn't do as much as I wanted to today, spend most of the day in town playing Warhammer, but tomorrow is Sunday and no plans, so I can work much more. I was going to do more tutorials but had problem with Projecting textures. In the video its Maya 2008, the interface was little bit different, there was no option for 2D Projection when you selecting colour for Material, so I had to do some looking around and eventually managed to find out that you can right-click on File and select As Projection, then it had all the options and stuff like in the video, so did some decals on my p-51 model and gonna watch at least one more before bed. Working on the DP-20 model too a little, just gave it some basic colour and later will give it more detailed ones.

Maya 3.2

To practice polygon modeling I have chose to do DP-20 Gunship from Star Wars, its fairly simple so I could quickly practice tools and will help me with refreshing memory on cylider textures. I was mostly worried I have forgotten all those shortcuts and quick ways of selecting menus, but I didn't =D From time to I did try to use PhotoShop shortcut, but otherwise mostly good. The whole model is mainly one piece, just the rear block, guns and some details are separate. Tried to limit faces as much as possible, not including the ones I didn't need. Textures will come tomorrow most likely.

Flash 2.0

Probably last post for Flash proect, at least for the university one. I have finished it and got my marks. Scored around 69% on all, which was kinda dissapointing, I was expecting more. I am still waiting for detailed feedback to see where I could have gone better with it. Though overall it was fun to work on it.

DPS 1.0

This this will be the last post for this. Should have made it much sooner though. The assignment is all finished, even got my grades. In all three categories me and my group scored 75 % or more which is pretty awesome. On my personal report I have scored 19 out of 20 which I really didn't expect, my report was even included in email from out tutor as example for everybody. I have been kinda slacking on it, so either I am really good or most of my class is really bad =P

Overall it was a good class, learned some good stuff that helped and also wsa really good to get used to know my group.

Maya 3.1

wow I didn't realize my pause was this long, lots of catching up to do. My hollidays didn't go so well, I figured I take a month break just to get some sleep and catch up on games, but when I wanted to go back to making stuff daily my PC died, so I been stuck on temporary one. I didn't do anything because I got caught up in doing nothing and well this PC is slow as hell sometime. Which is really, really annoying. I can buy new PC but in like half September, which is a bitch, but couldn't take it any longer and just had to start doing something. Its nothing big for now, need to slowly get back into it but will try to do something every day, I wasted too much time. Started with finishing that ship interior I been working on, played with textures for a while to remember stuff. Next I plan to refresh my memory with some modeling and also Escape tutorials, I have about two months on those left I think, gotta make best of it before SWTOR comes out, I can see myself sitting on that day and night.

Screen from progress on lower part of it:

Finished piece with wire-frame:

Finished piece with lighting. It was kinda hard to figure out, I am not reallyy good with lights. The main body doesn't even cast shadows because it was making it all too dark. I wanted the shadow to go behind the chairs, but this was best I could get.

And this is final piece, well hopefully. Its actually for a Star Wars browser MMO, will see if it will need some tweaking. Its a bit different from the picture above, had to do some final touch ups in PhotoShop as well as extend the cockpit window.

Maya 3.0

Been working on that cockpit image and did a simple lightsaber on requests, which made me realize I still need more practice with basic materials and reflections, I seemed to forgot a lot or at least took me a while to remember.

Maya 2.9

Um..wow...almost a month since last update. Bah, I did nothing for like 3 weeks, I mean like nothing beside some drawings for art assignment. But anyway, got tired of doing nothing so decided to give a go to make an interior of a space ship from Star Wars, well just the cockpit of it. Spend last night some time getting layout done and will work on it more soon.