UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA

26/09/2012

To day Neil gave us sheet of brief introduction that saying what we going to do, according to that we have to split into two group's and research on the topic that Neil gave us, The topic was GAMES ARE ART & 3D GRAPHICS HAVE IMPROVED FILM  and we need to debate on the topics  first one was the games are art, I am in the group of debating that games are not an art other group was debating games are art, we have five students in each group, each of us have time of 2 min to make our researched work to present,before that second years represented there project again on power point slide show. second years got a project that need to aim on a specific market.

For the debate I researched about Games are not an art because games are not aimed at a particular person, and games are not a single peace of work, games can only play if electricity is there but real peace of art work can enjoy with out that, I explained it more in front of the group. Also I looked at what is art ? for me art is a language that silently speaking through the creation by the artist, all emotions can feel by looking at there creation but for the game its never going to give any emotional feelings.

From my research I understand that the 3d design industry is widely known around the world I can understand that one day I am also become a part of it. In this debate I researched everything about the subjects but next time I will research into more depth for the subjects.

UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA

27/09/2012

Today also start with a agenda that saying about what should be done by the end of the day, first of the day to continue the debate from the yesterday. We finish one debate about Game are Not Art, today again started the second debate 3D GRAPHICS HAVE IMPROVED FILM,after the debate we started again with our room design in maya, neil showed us a power point presentation about texturing and shading,after noon again continued with the room design and try to add some texture's on the design.
In the debate my team was supporting the idea that 3d graphic have improved the films.I suggested my opinion on the subject, 3d graphics are made the films that  will be hard to make in real world, With the support of 3d ( CGI)  films can only improve  in the future. Day by day 3D world is changing.Next generation will enjoy better 3d.I showing here a picture that from movie avatar, This picture showing 3d graphic aircrafts, and spaceships  that dose not exist in real world. Avatar is one of the major film for its 3d graphic improvements.

 

Planar mapping

After the debate we started to try planar mapping, cylindrical mapping, For this texturing techniques need to select the create uvs from the menu,I showing a picture here, I try to use cylindrical mapping all this mapping techniques are using according to what objects we need to texture

MAYA 3D DESIGNING

20/09/2012
Today in class we learn about maya more than yesterday, and start to make models with tools that Neil showed us yesterday , To day Neil told us how to color an object in maya using shader's, Started with Lambert shader, In maya i can see different type of shaders,but for now i am using only Lambert, and made a table from looking a actual picture. After noon neil told us to make a room in maya Neil selected our own class room for model.

I am showing here a screenshot of Lambert shader, From here I understand  how i can color and make texture on a object/ color

at the bottom I showing my table design i did it in class today, that different color's and texture's   are made by using Lambert shaders



I did use different type of tools when i made this table, for me i did use extrude to more for modeling also vertex, edge, face are the tools that commonly used today




Todays task was really good i will try again to color some object. I have looked at some tutorial on how to coloring in maya for more understanding on the task.

Today also the room design started I took some photos of the wall and desk and all colored items from our class room. I will look some extra tutorials on room designing in 3d.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beDHy7dvEBs - tutorial about making room

 This picture is an example of 3d texturing I can see the frame work in bottom picture.

I started room designing with polygon objects, I first start to make the desks in the class and the mac computers, chairs.

For me when I start to make the chair it was bit hard that time to make the legs of the chair but I looked at a tutorial about how i can duplicate object in circle way so I find out in edit there is a option called duplicate special wit that option I can do what I need.

This is the first bit I have done with my room design From now I have to make the wall and the floor.

I think that should be easy relative to the inside objects




The bottom Image is my final work but later on I have to add some texture to it to get more real feeling

MAYA 3D TUTORIAL

19/09/2012

Today class started with a presentation on 3D (what is 3d), second years presented this PP. This presentation is showed different type of 3D usage in the industry,like gaming , film, modeling etc. and talking about more deeply on 3d and neil start conversation. After that neil gave us  introduction to 3d software MAYA , Neil showed us the tools in maya and described how to use it. Then Neil gave us a pre modeled gun that need to fix it back as in real shape, this project used different type of tools in maya for example, moving, rotating,scaling. after the brake second years showed us there power point presentation on there project, that aiming on the different markets of new media, Second years need to create there on subject on this project.

This is the gun model that I fixed.Through this work I understand about the maya interface and how to movie around the objects. During the home time I looked at some basic tutorials in internet to find out how I can improve my learning about maya



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b575ihVFceM

The above youtube tutorial showing how to make a can I made a can in maya. This tutorial was very helpful for me to understand basics of maya.
                   

MATTE PAINTING

13/09/2012

Todays class started neil gave us a brief view about matte painting and concept art. In the class neil showed us a powerpoint presentation different points of how and what is matte painting and concept art. Then he told us to find a digital art or matte painting talk about it( i mean what is my view of point to the art) I did select a picture

This is a pic from matte painting.org web site.This pic is a final part of a digital tutorial. I like the  way that they used to create this image this is not a photograph this is actual digital drawing.After that neil started the short brief. We need to make a actual digital image in photoshop,The brief asking to create a destroyed city. I find out some images from internet some real city's

The image I showing above is very inspiration to me, I will try to draw some thing on to my own project. Idid look at some other matte paintings that have buildings destroyed in it. 
 I made a indesign research document for what is matte painting

http://mattepainting.org/

For my project I will use photoshop. There is many different type of softwares that can used for to create matte painting
corel painter
autodesk sketchbook

I started in photoshop with a main image of a city from real world (photograph of a city) I searched on google to get the wright image. I find out london city skyscraper image will suite for the project .

Later on I started to  do the destroyed city on this image also added some other images with buildings in it and made some duplicate buildings like we did before on the dubai buildings last day.

I going to show some images that will later  see in final picture

 This is the image of burj khalifa  from dubai. I going to make only a copy of the building from this picture and add it to my london city picture this will make a different new city look.

This is picture of famous 9/1 disaster I am thinking to use this picture to my work because this will make a feeling that the city is destroyed.





The bottom image is my final piece of work for this destroyed city project. i added a new road to it i drawn my self Inspired from the early matte painting.Also I did made a space Ship that flying through the city make a feeling of alien war.

UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA -1

Wed 12 sep.

I started a new module understanding the media with Neil Brewis. In this module to day I did mostly in photoshop. first Neil showed us how to recreate pictures in photoshop with different type of tools.We started with a pic of Dubai City buildings I have to recreate some of the buildings from the same photograph.




This is the first  image that neil gave us. I changed the view of the buildings my self with photoshop. neil showed us basic photoshop tools for copying, selecting ,deleting unwanted parts of a selected area.

when I was studying graphic design I had many experience working in photoshop, I try  my best to ad this experience to this project

I try to duplicate some of the buildings here. I know that photoshop has many ways to do this work,I think my self can do this building creation but I have to do some research, I did look at some Images in internet.On this my research was take a normal city site Imagine about how many building s can I actually need to duplicate

I am showing here my final image from photoshop

For me its a nice start to understanding the media.I think my work here is better because of my early experience. I still like to do working in photoshop but I know that I want to change it in to 3D soon
In this project I used clone stamp tool to duplicate the buildings into different places and make a  crowded city
I have looked at some of the tutorials IN my early graphic design days I going to add some reference to the tutorials.
http://www.photoshopstar.com/
youtube photoshop tutorials
http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-training-tutorials/279-0.html