CAGD 330 - Digital Modeling II

Blog Post 4 - Classic Car Progress 1 This week, we began the Classic Car Assignment. The car that I chose for this assignment is the 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. I absolutely love this car because of the front and back bumpers, and the overall curves that were very common in that era of cars. I was able to find fairly good reference drawings that were initially used to construct the car in real life. However, I do need to spend a bit more time collecting more general references that contain the car in most, if not all, of the possible angles. I simply used references from GettyImages for the time being. Creating the curves was actually much more difficult than I had anticipated. I needed the curves to be as accurate as possible to the real car, because the closer the accuracy of the curves, the easier it would be to create the base topology of the car with the curves as a reference. The placement of the curves is also crucial. If the curves are not placed in appropriate “high” or “low” p...

 Blog Post 3 - Car Presentation

Blog Post 2 - In Progress LEGO Assignment This is an in-progress report on my work for the LEGO Car Assignment. At the moment, I have a total of 12 LEGO pieces modeled, and I am currently working on the 13th. So far, the progress for the assignment has been fairly smooth. The project expands on topics that we have already been working on within class and for previous assignments, so there is not a lot that I am struggling to figure out at this point. However, I know this will change because I have yet to deal with the LEGO piece that acts as the axle for the car. The regular pieces, such as the 1x1, 2x1, 3x2, and 4x2, were very straightforward. Once I had the base 1x1 modeled based on the reference provided for the assignment, the other pieces were essentially modular and could be mirrored and duplicated from the base 1x1. The challenge only began once I needed to create pieces with unique geometry that deviated from the typical format of LEGO bricks.  The “Grab” 2x1 brick was cr...

 Blog Post 1 - Faucet Assignment The faucet assignment was a very fun learning process for our first delve into subsurface modeling. It taught a workflow that was very different in comparison to any of the other modeling classes which I had taken previously, such as 230, 320 and 373.  The first step was to make sure that the units displayed within Maya were accurate to the units which the reference was using. I used the measurement tool in order to make sure that the faucet would be proportionally correct and more accurate to the reference. Afterwards, each piece of the faucet was modeled one at a time, building onto each prior model until I had one fully complete model by the end of the project.  Each individual piece began with a simple primitive, which usually ended up being the cylinder due to the predominantly cylindrical shape of the faucet. The neck and hose portion of the faucet was blocked out quickly by using the EP curve function and extruding a cylinder along ...