2 Weekly Blogs and Sketch (OCT 12-18)

Item One: The fireside lighting in some of these screenshots from The Sims is pretty inspiring. Not only do they achieve this effect in a still frame but they have programmed it to respond to a virtual world in real time. The animation adds a whole other level to it. How would you go about creating similar lighting?

Item Two: I'm not sure about the fireside glow, but here's an interesting tutorial on making a light saber glow. I'm using similar principles in my lighting assignment: Check it out.

Sketch: I wanted to do something with halves of mismatched shapes but ended up putting faces on them.

2 Weekly Blogs (OCT 5-OCT 11) and Sketch

Item One:
I created this pawn in 3Ds Max:

Items 2, 3, 4, etc.:

Here are a few of the resources I used:

(I used the above picture for tracing)

I found some general information on types of lighting here, and I also glanced through several tutorials from this site.

Sketch: A wind-up toy that has just escaped the cereal box it came from...

Weekly Blog (SEP 28- OCT 4)

I was playing with Sketchup and created a mystical door to nowhere...

Weekly Blog and Sketch (SEP 28- OCT 4)

Item One:
http://www.3dsmaxtutorials.net/

This seems like a good place to start with 3d studio max. There are several simple tutorials for beginners (though I haven't had the chance to try one yet).

Sketch: Inspired by real life torture, I present to you... the Chair of Vista! The screen prompts you with the option to quit torture, but every time "ok" is clicked, the OS crashes and you have to wait for the machine to restart. Meanwhile, the seat of the chair is being slowly lowered. The lower back of the chair prevents the victim from slouching, but they eventually have to rest against the spikes and hold themselves up (as the seat lowers) to prevent asphyxiation. Yep, I just loooove Vista.

Red Blue Chair

2 Weekly Blogs and Sketch (SEP 21- SEP 27)

Item One: A friend of mine told me about this website. Miranda July is an artist who deals with both performance art and digital art. Her work is unusual and thought-provoking... mirandajuly.com

Item Two: Staircase Tutorial

We found this during the lab on Friday. Afterwards, I went through the tutorial and discovered a few things. To use the rotation tool the way he does, you have to pay attention to the angle in the lower right text box. Also, to get the '+' on the rotation and move tools, press the option key.

Sketch:

2 Weekly Blogs and Sketch (SEP 14-SEP 20)

Item One:

This is a compilation of special effects throughout the years, ranging from early 1900's to present day. The art has improved tremendously, and it seems there is very little we can do to better it...but that's probably what they thought back in 1933 when King Kong first came out.

Item Two:

The following link is just one page from an example of interactive digital media. The entire site (nobodyhere.com) is an interactive media maze with no apparent purpose. I find it inspiring because the creator uses interactive media in such random and abstract ways to illustrate his thoughts.

http://nobodyhere.com/justme/cards.here

Sketch: Sock puppets! For some reason, it keeps showing up sideways... oh well.