As we have been quickly delving deeper into the galaxy of 3Ds Max, we are moving far far away from editing by hand. It’s true! Technology is advancing and so will we! No more painstaking tweaks to individual vertices, trying to get at least a mediocre bend or twist. No more spamming control z to undo hundreds of miniscule mistakes. No longer! Now we have modifiers, the new and improved way to model! Pick from hundreds of unique modifiers all tuned perfectly to your every modeling need. It’s right there in the modify tab. Intimidated by the multitude of possibilities on that scroll-down menu? No need to worry, just press the first letter of the modifier you’re looking for on your keyboard and it’ll jump right down to what you need, it’s that easy!
What’s that you ask? What kind of things do modifiers do? Well well well my friend, that’s no simple question! Modifiers do all kinds of things! Want to spice up your rectangle by giving it a nice curve? Just use the bend modifier, and get that curve 100% perfect, all the way down to the decimal. How about adding a corkscrew to that shape? Try the twist modifier! Wan’t an editable poly without permanently converting? Well there’s a modifier for that too, it’s the edit poly modifier! Oh but don’t feel limited to just one modifier, no no no! There are hundreds of modifiers, why not use them all? Modifiers can be stacked up just like normal layers! Feel free to pile them up as high as your heart desires! So what are you waiting for? Go! The modifiers will be there waiting for you! *taxes not included, individual pieces sold separately*
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Covid-19 has drastically changed all of our everyday lives. I have a feeling the quarantine hasn’t affected me as badly as others. I live in a big household and generally get along with my siblings, my parents work online so that's not an issue, and I have the resources to easily do my schoolwork. I’m lucky that I have these things, but I still miss my friends. Because everything is closed, I’ve been going on a lot of hikes with my family. I really love being out there where you can't hear the cars. I’ve also gotten into more random projects than I would normally. They’re mostly crazy art projects, for example, I’ve started creating a miniature room out of a cardboard box, and drawing little fantasy houses on all of my Jenga blocks. The rest of my family has also found new hobbies like coding, baking, and gardening. I guess one good thing about the lockdown is that it gives people time to find what they like and who they are without having to focus on the rest of the world. COVID has forced us to take the time to focus on ourselves instead of other people's opinions. After the pandemic is over, the world will be more connected. Everyone, at least in the current generations, will have shared this experience, no matter their background. Even though it is terrible and so many people have and will be hurt by it, the pandemic has brought the world closer to a global society. I drew this to represent how quarantine feels to me: overall:
It’s been a while since the stay at home order fist went out, I'm actually not sure how long it’s been, the days are starting to blend together a bit. While we’ve been away, we've started on 3d modeling, yay! The program itself is relatively easy to use as long as I stick to the tutorial and don't accidently close all of my toolbars. We’ve started out working with box modeling and primitives, which are just basic shapes that we combined to make some simple objects like a pencil or a snowman. The tools used for them were pretty self explanatory, move, scale, rotate, and so on. Navigating the 3d space with the mouse was a bit tricky to get the hang of, I'd end up creating something that looks great from one angle but as soon as you move around it becomes misshapen and pulled apart. Luckily we learned lots of neat keyboard shortcuts to help navigate. More recently we’ve looked into ways to further edit our shapes using polygon modeling. Polygon modeling allows you to edit the individual vertices, edges, faces and polys of a shape. To do this we used a variety of different tools including extrude, bevel, bridge, and more. These are what really allow you to get into the detail of your model. Our first assignment was a tutorial on how to make a tank, it was all done using just one box that we edited and molded into an actual object. I’ve seen a lot of artists that work in 3d digital art, and it’s pretty amazing what you can do with these softwares. I hope that maybe after quite a bit of practice I can also create 3d art on my own.
Weeks after school was cancelled and the quarantine began, the grading period has been resurrected. At first this online learning system was hard to get used to because all seven teachers were doing things their own way and yet somehow setting zoom meetings at the exact same time. Now that i’ve settled into my own at-home school schedule it’s a lot easier to manage the work, which isn’t a ton anyway. It’s been strange to see how different some of my teachers are when they're not in person. Teachers who I would have expected to be very active and concerned about their students barely post anything at all, while teachers who I would have expected to be more distant have suddenly become way more sincere and post almost daily. DDA is definitely the easiest (and funnest) class to do from home. While it’s hard to not be able to ask questions just by raising my hand, the class was already almost entirely online. Because we aren't able to do things in person, a lot of classes have cut back or simplified the work they give us. What makes DDA from home exciting is that it's so hands on. We still get to use the programs and make our own things instead of just doing review or reading a passage.(it’s also a bit easier to focus without Hao and Billy - don’t move my seat though!) I can’t wait to start 3D modeling, it’s something i’ve been wanting to do for a long time. Apparently 3ds max only works with a windows pc, turns out I have a windows pc! So yay! I get to use 3ds max! First I just have to figure out how to get it to work…
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Because of the new Coronavirus, school was canceled in order to prevent large numbers of people in one place. I’m both glad and upset about this. On one hand, Yay! No school! I get to stay home all day with my family and my dog! On the other hand I have no idea if this online school thing will work out at all, I have a strong feeling that I will be incredibly unproductive. I also don’t know how we will continue in this class. I've tried to download Premier Rush but it keeps telling me that I need an update for my computer even though there are no new updates available! If Adobe rejects my laptop all together I could try to download it onto the family computer but i’m not sure I want to because now i’m holding a bit of a grudge. Other teachers have said that these first two weeks are a period of only “supplemental” learning with no actual grades, I'm wondering if that applies to this class as well. I’ve already gotten a sense of which teachers will be giving large amounts of work and which ones are taking this time as a holiday, which I fully appreciate. Even though it’s only been a few days I can already tell that I will miss in-person teaching. My teacher's sound a lot different in writing than they do in person, much more thought out, sincere, full paragraphs that they would never say to the class in real life, I'm starting to doubt whether they were the ones who wrote those words in the first place. All in all this online learning system is a work in progress but I’m sure we’ll get better at it as time goes on.
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AuthorMy name is Xiomara Colopy. I am a student at DSA and am currently taking Digital Design and Animation 1 . Categories
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