manhole drain and a little ruffage

Alley set up

street and camera set up for now atleast

Shelf set up for making a Street scene

Bike :)

Untextured Render and with materials

fully rotating correctly

all organized and named

Text on both sides including the new chain guard :)

Kickstand

Break wires :)

Break handles

Breaks. they are gooood

Starting to add little pieces

Added another pedal and connected them MUAHAHAHAHA

Pedal

Added a blast shield

Made springs and cut holes in them

the bike is now almoast sit onable

I hate this screen.  Stop loading and let me work !!!!!

Fancy ish.

Sprocket redone and looks much much better :)  Just needed to select different faces on the inner wheel part

one back leg. built with a cylinder and lots of extrusions and adding of lines

Also learning how to build a custom tool shelf

Following my instructors advice I am working on something more simple first

Im Making a horse

This is going to be awesome

Starting a new side project

If this works it is going to be epic

Have a sprocket. It needs adjusting

Sprocket in place

made a crazy pipe thinger for the sprocket to hold the pedals.

Figured out what was wrong. I was selecting and deleting edges and not the faces like i was supposed to.

Having trouble with crazy smoothing. I will have to ask teacher tomorrow

Crazy bike sprocket thingermajig

Two Handles and end caps. Good stuff

I can ride my bike with one handlebar.  Wow that was a lame song reference. Oh well.

Front Tire :)

[Insert] key on Mac does not exist. so I looked and [Home] key seems to work

Hurray Back wheel

Made the wheel template

It can now hold wheels aparently :)

Creepy front handle thingamajig

http://m5designstudio.com/2011/maya-3d-tutorials/autodesk-maya-3d-2012-essential-shortcuts/

There are some. shortcuts. But not really the ones I want.     I guess this is a incomplete list or he is magic.

Made the front bendythingy using bezier curves. I like them alot. Had a little bit of trouble because the tutorial man uses some shortcuts and doesnt say what they are. I need a list or something

MODIFY> Center PIVIT  my new favorite menu item

Bike frame made from Nurbs curves and lofting. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Subdevision surfaces stuff

A goblet created using a curve and Revolve from the surfaces menu

Video 3 talking about nurbs and curves. very smooth

Video number two introducing Polygons and such

Starting Project 1.Introduction to Modeling in Maya 2012   seems like a good place to start

Starting

This Blog was created to document my progress thru 3d animation and interactive media design class. I will be posting screenshots and the like documenting my progress thru projects as well as final products.  I may not give much description but I will do my best to tell exactly what is going on.