The workshop activities for this week included making a flower vase and building a milkshake cup. The milkshake engagement began the day, and using a cylinder to extrude and scale the cup and lid was a simple process. The elements that I found most challenging were creating the straw using the Bezier curve and the milkshake liquid within the cup. The liquid was difficult because it should have been a separate component from the cup, but I kept picking the incorrect cup edges to create the liquid’s shape, which I had to do several times to finish. To make it more realistic, I also had to struggle moving the vertex on top of the liquid. It was challenging for me to manage the curves in the straw, so it took me quite a while to get it going in the direction I wanted.
I had to use the Bezier curve to create the flower stem for the flower vase, which encountered the same challenges as building the milkshake. I believe that’s because I haven’t settled into using it. The leaf was another place where I had trouble. After applying the solidify modifier, I spent a lot of effort changing the vertices and edges to make it perform more naturally on the stem. I felt that using a sphere to make the flower was the easiest part. I experimented with the vase’s edges and came up with a zigzag pattern that evoked a crystal effect, so I decided to continue with it.
After watching the tutorial video, making a Zubat for the homework assignment appeared to be straightforward. Up until the wing section, which was the bone part of the wing as well as the area I found most challenging completing the Zubat. After asking Mike for help I had repeated the procedures a few times for each part, scaling it to the size I wanted.
