Alien Guy 3

The latest steps I went through to create my Alien guy
were to create the skeleton, by using the join tool.
Ones I had all the bones I linked them together.







Also I created Eye balls and posisioned them on their place..
I only whish I had done them bigger, because I have the idea
that aliens have big eyes, but at least it has eyes.








And on the last step, I gave him a green color skin, and black eyes
and moved him a little.
Unfortunatelly I was never able to add the Ik handles and it was hard for me to move mr alien a lot becuase every time I tried it deformed. but I will keep trying, for now my Alien looks like the picture on the left.

My Alien Guy on Maya

Hi!, This is how my alien guy looks like, it is very skiny and it took me a lot of time, because I did it more than ones until I was more satisfy about it shape, I am still working on it, but at least it shape looks better than the previous Alien guy I had posted.

ALIEN GUY

hI, THIS WEEK i WORKED ON MAYA CREATING AN "ALIEN GUY", BUT STILL IS NOT FINISHED, THE NEXT PICTURE SHOWS WHAT i got and the diferent images I saw starting from the end to the beginning. the harder part for me was to find the different tools because I have a different version from the tutorial, and also, I got stuck some times because I still dont know how to use the software very well but It was fun

Modeller 32

With Modeller 32, you can create a version of yourself in a cartoon or digital version,

You can set up the software so you change the characteristics
of the initial character or you can upload pictures of yourself and
transfor a version of youself







You can see the color skin or you can change that.










You can also change the sex of your charachter and select a different race characteristics








On the next 3 pictures you can see how I changed the same woman playing around with all the different options the
problem gives you.

Sunday April 13th

TODAYS CLASS IMAGES where taken at splenda's world.

In this world we found a pool that had a diving boar from where your avatar could jump and dive. What I found very fund was the fact that you could select the way you where going to dive, and there where very profesional diving jumps. On the left you see my avatar jumping from the blue board.





On this image, my friend is just about to jump, all you had to do is to right click on the tip of the board and then click dive and select a mode.

MAYA

The homewor for todays class, was to download and check some of the maya tutorials. Maya is an

"Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution. Because Maya is based on an open architecture, all your work can be scripted or programmed using a well-documented and comprehensive API (application programming interface), or one of two embedded scripting languages. This, combined with an industry-leading suite of 3D tools, means Maya enables you to realize your creative ideas."

source: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=7635018&siteID=123112



Even though I had already experimented other similar software (3dmax), I found MAYA also very complex because you are not working with just one dimension, but to make your objects real you have to pay attention to every side, position, depth width and in many cases movement.



On the left, I was watching one of the first tutorials












3d buzz is a website that contains tutorials and forums to learn different softwares including MAYA








After I had read the basic readings I decided to start building something, so I selected a tutorial where you are supposse to build the image on the left.






I first started by building the base of the building









Then I created one little box and then a column and duplicated the
little box and place the copy on top of the column










I did not finish the tutorial, but I had already learned and experience how to start building, and this is what I got... I will
continue the next sunday

GOGGLE EARTH 2

Later on during our class, we had the opportunity to explore more Google Earth
and below you can see the other images I shot during my class










When you are navigating around the globe in google earth you see different Icons, that you can click and different information or files pop up. Some of the icons are linked to information posted from nonprofits that help those areas. For instance I went to Africa, and there are a lot of organizations such as WWF to help animals and others to help people that have their links to information to alert and inform the people about animals or people that live in those areas. I even found journal of a scientific that have been studying the monkey on the picture below -->





According to the pop up window, this person have been following and studying that monkey since it was born, and it gives you information about it and pictures.









I dont think geography classes can be boring anymore, as they use to be, I love to see the 3d image of the globe it is fun, very impresive and real.

The potential Google earth has is huge, not only for finding places, but for teaching, or for communicating.