Stop! And Read This!

        In class last week, we all talked about our egg projects and it was really cool to see how different people took the project. The ones that really stood out to me was the egg with the glowing lights and the musical one. The lights looked like a party was going on inside it and the musical one made me feel like I was in a strange dream where I had no idea what was going on in it. Really great ideas guys and gals!

        During the dicussion, we had talked about heading towards a traffic light and not wanting to stop what we would do. Like many people in class, I had not thought about the idea of us not even being in a car. Like the rest of you, I assumed we were driving a car and had no other option but to plow through the intersection and hope for the best. When you said "I never said you were in a car," I  almost fell out of my chair. In life there so many options and the ones we pick are the ones we are used to but there are always so many other options our there right in front of us.

        I started to think about this and how many things I can change in my life just by trying to look at other options that I cant see yet. I know they are there now and it will just be a matter of being able to see them.

Home is Where the Egg is

      Never in my life did I think I would leave a college class with an egg as my first assignment for the semester. Giving a college student complete freedom with an assignment is one of the scariest things you can do. The minds either have no idea what to do and sit in the corner and wait until the last second to put something together or they have a million ideas and almost turn it is late because they couldnt focus and choose one idea. (cough, cough...me.)

      I had many ideas. I knew I either wanted to do something serious or something funny that would make people laugh, like I dont know, draw Miley Cyrus's face on it and do a We Can't Stop video remake. (Just throwing nonspecific things out there.) But then I thought that wouldnt really help me learn anything new.

      I am very into Maya and 3D production so I decided to do a Maya based project. I thought about modeling the egg and doing somthing fancy with it but I thought that would be simple and boring. So I then thought of what the egg represented. To certain creatures an egg is their first home in the world. They are born from and grow within it, so I thought I would grow my Maya skills from modeling a house and challenge myself with a new rendering feature I have never tried before. I thought I would learn more from rendering with something different and out of my comfort zone. I am VERY happy with how this turned out and with how much I learned from it after a few (HA! Few...) mistakes.

And now without further ado... my egg project.

Finished project

Different times of the day

 

Non mentalray render with few point lights

 

First grass testing

 

Screenshot of full project

 

 

It all started with a little egg...
 

First Day as a New Thinker

        I was very excited to start this class. I have heard nothing but good things about it. I also have been in a creative slump that has made me feel a bit frustrated. In class I already had my way of thinking altered. I heard a few things that really stuck out to me and I had to evaluate life once or twice. When I heard "Thinking outside the box is a very in the box way of thinking" I was taken back a bit. I ralized that when I used to say that I felt like I was actually sitting in a box trying to look out but in reality I was in a refridgerator box reading the "how to lift safely" text. I think that this class will help my cut a hole in the side of the new Kenmore machine and and free me from its musty depths.