Week 1

Photoshop

Task 1: Green screen Lady & Background

Images used:

Finished work:

Homework: Animal hybrid

Images used:

White turtle dove

finished work:

Week 2

Introduction to Maya

Maya Shortcuts:

Tools:

Q = select tool
W = move tool
E = rotate tool
R = scale tool
F = frame selection (centre focus on your object in the scene)

Other:

Ctrl+ g = create a group with selected elements
Ctrl+ d = duplicate selected element
Ctrl+ e = extrude
Hold X= enable snapping of selected elements to points on the grid while moving them
Hold J= enable incremental rotation for the selected element
Space bar = switch between views

Display Settings:

0= Default quality display setting
1= Rough quality display setting
2= Medium quality display setting
3= Smooth quality display setting
4= Wireframe
5= Shaded display
6= Shaded and Textured display
7= Use All Lights

Making Amphitheatre

Making the steps and Altar by duplicating and stacking the altered cubes

Making and duplicating pillars by the cylinder shapes

Making the top

Adding area lights

Final result 1

Final result 2

Week 3

Maya Basics- Extrusion, Building a Spaceship

Ctrl+ e = extrude

Extruding faces

Selecting faces and extruding up.

Scaling in and extruding up.

Spaceship

Making Cup

Fake news idea

Title: The Moon is ‘Splitting’

The Real Story

In recent years, thanks to advances in lunar exploration, scientists have indeed uncovered evidence of the Moon’s geological activity. This discovery has equated to a doomsday scenario of the Moon splitting in half.

The concept of the Moon “splitting” seems not to be an exaggeration or interpretation of the data related to lunar shrinkage. Fault scarps, as mentioned earlier, are a natural outcome of the Moon’s geological activity and they are indicative of catastrophic lunar destruction.

Materials used:

Tree

half moon 1

half moon 2

Combining moon 1 & 2 in Photoshop by masking and using direct selection tool and using one of the images as back ground.

landscape

Sky

Used Quick selection tool on this image to make pieces of the moon

The fate newspaper design

The process

Moon splitting final product

The fate newspaper “The Moon is Splitting”.

Bond Gadget

Idea

Insulin pen and syringe.

Wooden pen design

Material used:

Wallnut texture for the pen

HDRI Image used

Making the bond pen

Cylinder 5 equal subdivisions

Making a cylinder adding subdivisions with mesh edit -> insert edge loop tool . Adding a slight curve using division’s vertex points and using expand tool.

Adding a thin cylinder (2) at the right end using interactive creation

Pen round end

Adding another thin cylinder (3) to make the rounded end of the pen by selecting round cap option, deleting half of the faces, rotating and moving it to the bottom.

Extrude and adding subdivisions

Selected the 5 subdivisions vertex scaling it smaller, selected 3 middle vertex scaling slightly outward and middle scaling out again.

Resizing subdivisions

Adding hard edges

Extruding faces in and out to make the tip of the pen

Designing the Pen tip

Using boolean difference a-b to cut shape

Making pen clip by extruding

Making the pen clip by extruding the side faces

Pen clip bevel

Extruding beveled center faces

Making the cap

Adding a cylinder and usind round cap deleting left side round faces and leaving the right side round end for the pen cap.

Round cap

Making the cap and sizing it correctly

Mesh tool to add equal edges

Using left click assign new material to ai Standard Surface to presets to copper and doing this to the pen clip as well.

Assigning copper as material

Selecting the faces except the edge at end of the cap faces and using left click assign new material and selecting blnn, selecting the color checker box and clicking on file to add the walnut texture image and did the same to the body of the pen except the gripper part of the pen.

Using blnn to add walnut texture

Making the injection part of the pen that will be present inside the grip part and assigning ai standard surface, presets, glass to left side while the nib to be standard and the needle to be set as copper.