Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Why do you change the settings on maya?

When we change the settings so that the shape that we make is set to the other shapes you already have. I think the multiple edge loops will give you more than two loops on your helmet. The number of edge loops will give a number of four loops on the helmet. The auto complete will not stop the looping from stopping immediately.

Monday, March 28, 2011

What did you learn today?

The first thing I learned how to do today was how to use the Append to polygon tool. By using that tool we connected the shield to the jawline. We did that by going to edit mesh and clicking on the append to polygon tool and box. We also used the split polygon tool. We used that in our mask by going to the split polygon tool and using the vertical and horizontal splits. This also creates the vertices for the mask.

Monday, March 21, 2011

My 3D figure

I chose a picture of sunglasses to make my figure. I chose sunglasses because when I was little I used to think some sun glasses were just so fabulous and beautiful and you could just hide behind them whenever you wanted. I think the hard part will be to get the exact measurements and making the thin part of the glasses just perfect. I hope that when I complete the sunglasses it looks just like the picture

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Animation Journal

3 things I learned: The first thing that I learned how to do was how to bridge two things together
The second thing I learned how to do was I learned how to extrude a shape
The third and last thing I learned how to do was to combine both shapes such as the helmet and the jaw together so they are considered one shape.

2 challenges: The first challenge was remembering to save it each time and to put the name to save it by.
The second challenge was trying to bridge the jaw and the helmet together because I had to get the exact amount of lines which is five and making sure I had all those or else it would not bridge.

1 resolution: I finally selected all the amount of edges and got the jawline and the helmet to finally bridge together

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Where are you at and what is the problem?

I am trying to bridge my jaw line and the helmet together. The problem I am having is that the border edges are not connecting, the help line is saying that I do not have the right amount of edges selected. I have to have five edges and I already do but for some reason just the edges will not connect. I hope that I can get the edges to connect by tomorrow because I really need to finish this helmet.