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...