The “Floating City” animation class project I was helping produce.

I wanted to give my ruins a bit of a mystic look, so I added a light ambient light from the side and a teal directional light to give it that blue look.

I don’t know when or how my original bump was removed. I added it back, but it doesn’t have the same shadows as before. I’m sure if I mess around with it some more I’ll get it back.

For my sake and no one else’s

I finally got myself set up with Maya on my computer, and had a great mouse courtesy of a friend. When I’ve been working in Maya in the past, I just felt really lost, so I decided the best thing would be to just sit down with the tutorial and work my way through. I got partially done with the temple it was teaching and realized I was getting a little close to my deadline.

I am still finding the mapping and textures a little confusing. The paint tool was really cool. And the sky ball thing was strange. I still haven’t quite got that down. But now that I have myself set up on my computer, I’m sure that will change. This is a lot of fun.

First off- I really need to get Maya on my computer so I can mess around with it more in my free time. I would love to work on these projects and add more detail now that I’m getting into the flow of the program.

Secondly- everything is newly made except for my boolean, which is work done to my previous robot.

1 - plateau -  loft 2 or more curves to create a surface - technically, I made the top planar also

2 - urn - revolve a curve

3 - wall - extrude a closed shape along a pat

4 - robot parts - Boolean some primitive objects together

5 - star - make a 2d shape planar

Yay! Quincy gets generic color!

Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to the later lab times during the week. I was planning all week how I wanted to make my robot look, but could not figure out how to change the color for one specific object. I was able to change the figure as whole minus the head.

I think maybe it’s because it’s the only thing I named? Or maybe it was my live object? I’m not sure. But I ran out of time. I think with a little more time to work with it, I could have given it some very interesting color.

I obviously used my 2D robot as inspiration. Quincy takes form! I had a lot of fun learning how to operate the system and once I got into the flow of things, it became much less frustrating.