Marie Antoinette

For my final Modelling project, I have to design a space for someone (a non-animated character) who is fictional  historical, real, etc....  It can be any space (bedroom, living room, some is creating a ship deck and someone else is creating a caves), anything.  The objects in the space must represent this person.  I decided to model Marie Antoinette's bedroom at the start of the revolution, right after she escaped through the door in her room.  I'll be posting my progress as the weeks go by.  So far, I've only modeled objects.  No textures, or even the actual space, yet.  But soon....  Because this is due in a month......

Silver cookie Tier (also modeled chocolate and macaroons to go on it) Professor loved this one! :b

Perfume Bottles

Cake Server/Slicer

Tea Cup and Saucer

Tea Pot:

Sadie

My second to last project in my 2D principles class is to create a model sheet for a character.  I created Sadie (my fiance names her :D).  I'll redo it, I'm not happy with it, but I'm posting it as a first draft....and my first character model sheet!  We have to animate the character we create as the final project, so I wanted her to be as simple as possible, and so does the professor....

My first Maya Models

It's Midterms, and I'm actually not that stressed out.  I do have to memorize the 12 principles of animation for tomorrow, verbatim, which I'm not happy about.  I've been reading them over since the first day of classes knowing that this is going to be the midterm and nothing has stuck!   Instead of letting us paraphrase, he is going to take points off if you miss a word or miss a comma or something.  Am I studying performing arts or animation??  I think this is a ridiculous waste of time, and I should be doing REAL animation work, but I have to do this today instead.  And on top of that, these principles are paraphrased everywhere in every animation book, everywhere online, everywhere! They're principles not scientific rules, so verbatim just means he wants us to memorize his version of them.  It's silly.  I'll just forget them after the test anyway. :/

I'm sorry for the rant.  Anyway, because it's midterms, all of my Maya models were due this morning.  They're below.  Everyone had to create the same models based on these awful Bosch paintings.  The only reason they were awful was that the proportions aren't accurate on the paintings (and Maya's all about precision).  So we had to guess half of the stuff on them.  But I learned basic modeling techniques, so I'm excited about that!!

Oboe:

Bird:

Eggie:

Giraffe:

Horn Guy:

Bouncing Ball Tests

Here are my bouncing tennis ball (top) and bowling ball (bottom) tests.  I think they turned out pretty well.  I made several versions of this, and this is a redo that I handed in for class.  This was the first assignment.  I was really nervous handing this in, but all in all, I think I got the basic animation principles down in this.  Let me know what you think!!  And thank you for looking!! :)