Forgotten Posts

After reading through my blog I realised that I hadn’t posted my mood or research boards from a few weeks ago. I also hadn’t posted my hand drawn plans of the scenes and my SWOT analysis, so here they are.

Calendar:
Mood and Research Boards

The three months I have chosen to do for my calendar are July, April and December. I have chosen these months because these months represent more to me than any other months in the year. So I though I would have more ideas of what to create for these months.


April:
April reminds me of the Easter holidays and Easter time, with Easter eggs, the Easter bunny and April fools day. It also reminds me of start of summer and when I can start skating and BMXing again because the weather has finally cleared up enough for it to be dry and warm, so it reminds me of spending my Easter holidays going on road trips with my friends to skateparks that we have been wanting to go to all winter but couldn’t due to the great British weather.
So for my April scene I wish to include things like a halfpipe to represent skateparks, Easter eggs and a Easter bunny to represents Easter time. So now I have to try and create a scene that can incorporate all of these objects.


December:
December reminds me of Christmas, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, snow, parties and fires. I see December as a month or socialising in the warmth of pubs at home by the sea with big open logs fires, or a party round my house with friends and family and a comfy homely setting.
I want to make my scene feel homely and wintry, by creating a log fire, but somehow also creating snow something that shows its cold outside. Also I would like to include a fully decorated Christmas tree and Christmas presents.





July:
July reminds me of my birthday and summer. July is a happy time for me as when its summer I get my BMX out and go to the local dirt jumps and spend days there or days at the skate park, it also reminds me of going to the beach and having beers and barbeques with friends.
So within the month of July scene I wanted to include things such as;
A Birthday cake, banners, presents, the sun and things related to birthdays.




Hand Drawn Plans;
Unfortunately I have never been very good at art, but I had ago, here are my hand drawn plans of my scenes.
April,



December,


July,

SWOT analysis:

I didn’t do the SWOT analysis on the week 6 it was planned to be done on as I didn’t think I had done enough to any of my scenes for it to be very detailed or to have a lot to talk about, so I analysed my work on week 9.

Strengths:
-Everything in my scenes have been modelled by me, so the whole scene is my creation from scratch rather than placing one object in front of a background image.
-The detail within my scenes is good because I don’t like to do half a job or cut any corners on any of the objects.
-The fire in the December scene is how I had planned it to be and is very life like.
-Sticking to my plans.
-Use of time within this project as a whole.
-Backing up my work regularly.

Weaknesses:
-Sticking to timescales for each scene.
-Not having any previous experience with 3d modelling or the 3ds max program.
-Not having seen any previous examples of this, I didn’t know what the expectations of the project were.

-Hand drawing skills.

Opportunities:
-I could use personally taken images and use them as maps and material within my scenes.
-I could use different ways of creating objects within the scenes to make them look more life like.

Threats:
-I could lose my work at anytime due to technical failures.
-Once I had used the free trial of 3ds max 2009 I could not open my files on the lab computers because they had an older version installed.
-I downloaded a trial version on 3ds max and it was only a 30 day trial, so I had limited time to use the product at home.