Black Hole

12/2/15

Starting to work on getting the scene of the rocket breaking up, didn't get much progress on it though. Also working on the rover.

12/1/15

Re-rendering the scene to fix the spin that George didn't like.

Animating in the sky

Circle clouds spin animate yeah.

11/5/15

Working on some smoke, my current goal is to get a lower quality one that still looks nice. I'm thinking this is going pretty well.

11/3/15

Maya, as well as this whole computer in general, has been extremely frustrating. Everything is slow and bogged down, even if Maya isn't running.

10/20/15 Rocket Stuff

This class was a nice touch up for the parachutes and getting them all done, then I set up the batch render. It'll require a little bit of compilation before giving it to George, but it'll be given to him before the end of the meeting.

Emailed Goerge

Rocket Rough Animation

Got a solid animation up for the launch. It's still missing some more details and better lighting, but this is just a nicer rough draft. Specifically, this is an image from the animation because I can't directly upload large videos to blogger.

9/9/15

I got to do some updates for the whole class to fix mental ray, so that was fun. I had set up an HDR in the scene I was making for the rocket take off, but rendering didn't work with mental ray. After that, I fixed some stuff and got a nice looking render in to give to George.

Photoshop Image

Doing some research

Final: Hubble Space Telescope

Final renders of the Hubble Telescope

Rivet, Rivet

Got some rivets textured onto the base, but as of current I plan on making them a bit smaller. I ran out of time to do this today, so it'll likely be the last part of my final. Lookin' pretty good though.

Hubble Texture Progress

Textured on some solar panels.

Hubble Texturing

 

Hubble.

Hubble In a Scene

Put Hubble into a scene with stars, the Sun, and Earth.

Coloring Hubble

Look at all the pretty colors.

Nasa Warp Drive

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/04/nasa-is-it-on-the-verge-of-discovering-warp-bubbles-enabling-dreams-of-interstellar-travel.html

http://www.iflscience.com/space/warp-drives-mars-and-back-time-lunch

These links should help explain what has been happening.

HUBBLEHUBBLEHUBBLE

Getting some more progress in. It's going.

moar hubble

More progress, should be ready to start texturing soon.

Hubble. More. Progress

There are a lot of really tricky shapes that are surprisingly difficult to model. But progress is going.

Hubble Progress. Still

More progress with details.

Hubble Details

Starting to work on details for the solar panels.

Hubble Telescope: More Progress

More general progress on the Hubble's modeling.

Hubble, making progress

Getting general progress done on modeling Hubble, I do have  a few questions about what I should do, such as level of detail and such. I'm getting progress on the generic pieces and not going too far detailed to afoid having done it for nothing.

Hubble

Getting progress

I'm getting there.

Photoshop Rhino Zebra

Had to start over on the zebra because of something. I'm not really enjoying photoshop that much and would heavily prefer to do projects in Maya. I realize that it can be an important skill but I just can't do it.

Have not really been posting.

I didn't know I still needed to do this stuff. As of late, I've been working on the rocket, but progress is slow because it takes 4 minutes to render one frame.