HA8 Task 5 - Production

Task 5 - Production

Tuesday 5^th May 2015

I changed the background of my Sidekick drawing to blue on Photoshop using multiply and changing the opacity to 75%. I did this because you can’t see the wireframe on Modeller against a white background.

Thursday 7^th May 2015

I selected the disc tool and made a shape for the head. I then extruded the polygon to make it a 3d sphere shape. I surfaced the polygon. 

I then selected the box tool to create my models torso. I extruded the box to make it 3d. I then selected the points on the front of the polygon and rotated it to make it slanted. I then surfaced the polygon.

I then used a box polygon which I extruded to make the bottom half of my model. I surfaced the polygon and then changed the shape of the polygon using the stretch tool. I found this tricky at first because the shape didn’t match my drawing.

Monday 11^th May 2015

Making the model eyes. Using the pen tool I drew around the eye shape on my background drawing. When I had the correct shape I bevelled the polygon to make an eye socket. I then used the disc tool to create the iris and pupil. I then surfaced all of the polygons so I could see each individual polygon.

Tuesday 12^th May 2015

I used two disc shapes to make the arm. I had to connect the polygons. I did this by selecting the points and making a polygon. I had to change the shape and size of the arm to make it wider and larger towards the elbow and then thinner towards the wrist joint. I surfaced this polygon and then mirrored it to make two arms. 

I then started with a box to create my models hand. I added extra boxes and extruded them to make the fingers for my model. I found this very straightforward and easy to do. Then i surfaced the finished hand. 

Thursday 14^th May 2015

Hands continuation. I had to split each individual finger into three segments in order to create joints. I then used the bend too. This made the fingers bend round to show a clasped hand. I bevelled all fingers to make them look rounded. I found parts of this difficult because the polygons were going inside out and the fingers kept bending the wrong way.

Monday 18^th May 2015

To make the mouth on my model I had to select polygons from the head. I used multishift to make the mouth indent. I then moved the other polygons to position the mouth by selecting the points. Once the mouth was correctly positioned I needed to make teeth. 

I first tried the disc tool. I changed the number of sides to three to make a triangle. I then bevelled the triangle and then rotated it and moved it into position. Io then surfaced the polygon an mirrored it to make the other tooth.

 I then created a caterpillar track for the bottom of my model to show its form of movement. I started by creating two discs, I then cut them in half and selected the points to make them into one polygon. I then copied this shape and drilled into it. I then had to delete the inside of the polygon and extruded the remaining polygon out.

 This is my completed sidekick in Modeler.

Thursday 21st May 2015

I then loaded my sidekick into LightWave layout. I then chose different surfaces to apply to my sidekick. Once I had applied all of my surfaces I then used the camera at different angles and positions to take shots of my sidekick . This was able to show a 360 degree view of the completed sidekick.