𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟_𝕄𝕒𝕩𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕘

Throughout half of  semester 2 in 3D Literacy, I want to reflect on my work and exercises within these 6 weeks of 3D modelling along with the assignment 1 and Maya.

At the beginning of this semester, when all us were starting with 3D modelling and introduced to the Maya software, I felt very nervous and unsure as it was my first time creating with 3D modelling and animation as I always preferred the 2D. While 2D is hand-drawn in a sketchbook or on Krita/Photoshop software, 3D still required concept and references from the internet. Throughout these weeks on working on assignment 1 and doing exercises it was starting to feel natural for me as I went along with the UV maps, textures and creating models which I thought looked complicated. Watching the lecturers tutorials gave me the help I needed to go though each exercise and help with my assignment 1 project.

Although there were drawbacks to 3D modelling as well as finishing the final project design, that I have learnt for myself during this course. For starters, it was very time consuming when it came to the modelling stages, mistakes were made with the edges or faces as it became frustrating to fix and get right and finally it also took up a lot of storage space within my laptop desk.

For my Assignment 1, we were introduced to 3D modelling at the start of semester 2 in 3D Literacy. We were instructed to create one 3D model, using UV wrap, texture and render the model which would be either a windmill, magic staff, treasure chest, sword and shield, old well, sci fi helmet or a cuckoo clock from our choosing. For me I created at least 5 models for this assignment as it was tricky to pick one of them, however I narrowed it down to the windmill model adding the treasure chest I have done. Here are shots through the process and references I used:

I also added in a treasure chest model with references that I added to my main project

It was an interesting experience with 3D modelling using Maya for the creation of the model and using substance painter for the colour and textures. I used textures such as rust, iron raw damage, grass texture and ship wood for my models creation.

Full version found on sketchfab

Windmill model assignment 1 – 3D model by LaurenMaxwell3 (@LaurenMaxwell3) [570f45f] (sketchfab.com)

In 3D Literacy week 5 we had been introduced to maps and sketchfab. Here they showed us about exporting textures while demonstrating on substance painter with the floor and can model. After that they had introduced us to sketchfab and we were able to create our accounts to post our 3D models with textures online.

I also tried modelling the can and floor during class to get the gest on sketchfab and completed the two exercises down below with the sword and the hard surface model.

This week we were introduced to adobe substance painter and how it was used for textures and importing Maya models and exporting the textures to Maya in render. Our lecturer Mike talked about the layers applied to the model and presented us videos to follow to complete the substance hammer for our homework for this week.

It was a bit difficult as I was new to substance painter but watching Mike’s videos helped me out in the end.

The left is from substance painter and the right is from Maya on render mode.

Here is my work on assignment 1 this week.

This week in class, we were taught on Texturing and UV mapping. We had learnt on how to import textures using Photoshop with UV mapping using the tutorial videos on blackboard. We had done it with three models which involved a six sided dice, coke can and a hammer while using UV mapping.

For homework I selected one of the images and made my model with UV mapping it was difficult at first but I was able to adapt to it.