Saturday, December 6, 2014

Week 14 Post

Saturday (2 Hours of work):
Today I worked on painting a texture onto the turning knobs for the volume controls on the amp. I had to figure out how to get he numbers onto the knob in a circular motion. It was a lot of work actually but I figured it out. I then tested it on the model and I think it came out pretty good.


Sunday (2 Hours of work):
Today I finished texturing all of the knobs and plugs on the front of the amp. It was a lot of work and took so much time but it turned out the way I wanted it to. Now I just have to finish the handle and bumpers than import the whole scene together. Then render a few renders of it.


Monday (7 Hours of work):
Today I worked on completely finishing the amp. I have now textured it all and its all done I just have to figure out how to put my whole scene together than do some renders. I also imported all of the objects together and made a turntable. I lit the scene and attempted to do a beauty pass  batch render. Well it was set to the wrong perspective camera and all the renders turned out sideways so I ended up just doing a few still renders to put on here. The next problem I had was getting the wireframe to actually work. I tried absolutely everything I could think of and tried to go off both the turntable tutorial and Justin's post on Facebook. It usually works but today Maya was just not letting it work. So for that I ended up taking a few screenshots to show off the wireframe. 








Monday, December 1, 2014

Week 14 Post

Monday (1 Hour of work):
Today I worked on finishing some of the knobs on the guitar and the guitar is now done. Then i started to work on building the guitar stand for the guitar to sit on in the final scene. I'm getting very close to being done with this project.




Tuesday (1 Hour of work):
Today I worked on finishing up the guitar stand. I had some issues with the curve tool to make the handles for the guitar to sit on but I finally figured it out. Since the guitar sits on it its not really visible to the person looking at the scene. Tomorrow I am planning on working on textures and hopefully soon finishing up my scene. 



Thursday (2 Hours of work):
I worked on getting the stand fully uved and I did just that. I got all of it UVed which took a while but its all ready for texturing now. I was thinking of making it a darker plastic color because it is not really going to be seen. The guitar is going to be resting on it.








Friday (5 Hours of work):
Today I worked on finishing all the texturing on the guitar stand. I found this great tutorial on http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/drawing/metal-texture/ about making my own metal texture in Photoshop. It really helped me get this great dark metal texture to the stand. After I was finished up with that I started working on the auxiliary ports to the amp. I am hand painting everything for this since that is going to be the easiest way. Its time consuming but I know it will be worth it in the end.