3D
Modelling Evaluation
Finished
Product
Overall I am very pleased with my finished product. I first started out making the tables and benches that would be going into the Great Hall, then I thought that it would be a good idea to build the room around the tables then I knew how big to build the room and resize the furniture if I needed too. Then I started to create all the cutlery like plates and bowls etc. I did these all seperately and then added them to my table individually, grouping all the objects together so it would be easy for me to manoeuvre all the objects at once as I have quite a few of them over all the four separate tables. Once I had arranged all my plates, bowls and goblets I started or the decorating of The Great Hall, this proved to be difficult as I needed to find the perfect material for the walls and the floor, but in the end I think I found the perfect stone material for the floor and for the walls.
Overall I am very pleased with my finished product. I first started out making the tables and benches that would be going into the Great Hall, then I thought that it would be a good idea to build the room around the tables then I knew how big to build the room and resize the furniture if I needed too. Then I started to create all the cutlery like plates and bowls etc. I did these all seperately and then added them to my table individually, grouping all the objects together so it would be easy for me to manoeuvre all the objects at once as I have quite a few of them over all the four separate tables. Once I had arranged all my plates, bowls and goblets I started or the decorating of The Great Hall, this proved to be difficult as I needed to find the perfect material for the walls and the floor, but in the end I think I found the perfect stone material for the floor and for the walls.
Production
Skills
When
I think back to when I first started this project I thought I wasn’t going to
create anything substantial enough as I’m not the best at designing things, but
as we did a few little tutorials following the instructions to create all the
same thing, I was sceptical as I definitely thought that I wasn’t going to get
on with this project well, and unsurprisingly this is the only unit I have
really struggled with.
When
we were told we had to create a scene of some sort, a few ideas ran through my
head as to what I could create: The Great Hall from Harry Potter, Central Perk café
from Friends or Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment from The Big Bang Theory. And I
finally decided on The Great Hall from Harry Potter as I thought it was the simplest
one to create as it just required a lot of duplicating of one object as the
others would involve making lots of different object and knowing that I was
going to struggle with this unit and being a beginner with Cinema4D I decided
that it would be a massive challenge to try and recreate them scenes.
I
think that the main reason that I struggled with this unit is because I’m not
the best at designing things or drawing or using software that doesn’t work in
the way I expect it to work. It’s basically just experimenting with all the
different tools that the software has to offer before you find what you are
comfortable with to create objects with.
The
time management on this project hasn’t been a problem for me as I finished this
a good few weeks before the deadline for the project, I have been going back
and tweaking it here and there every so often and then repositioning something,
but overall I think I have done very well as it didn’t take me that long to
complete my finished scene.
I
think a reason why I have created what I have is because I was always asking
from reassurance from people and asking “Is it this one to extrude?” and “Can
you show me how to do this?” and other such questions like that, which I think
is always expected from a beginner, but seeing as everyone was in the same boat
as me, but others coped well during this unit as they clearly have patience for
the software unlike me, as I got so frustrated so many times at various stages
of the creation part, like when HyperNURBing something and it didn’t go the way
I wanted it too and then trying to rectify it and it does the complete opposite
of what you want.
Overall
it just wasn’t a good project for me and I really have struggled with this unit
but I think I know the bare essentials of what to do when confronted with
Cinema4D in the future.
