Having just started working on 3D modeling in 3D Studio Max, I'm not really sure whether or not I'm going to like it. It's definitely interesting. Based on my limited experience, I think overall I'm going to enjoy it so long as my projects don't crash and burn. So far I've made exactly one thing. It's supposed to be an elephant. An elephant with really, really long ears, which I'll give the story behind later. My thoughts:
I definitely like having the ability to create my own 3D objects, which is something I've tried to do before in real life using clay and failed at, because I'm bad with clay. However, this seems like something I'll actually be able to do. I like how specific I can get with editing a single shape, without having to tack on other shapes. The program seems easy to use in general and there's a lot of different options. I'm already getting used to the controls, and I look forward to discovering the full scope of what I can do with the program. It seems really easy to make highly specific changes and pinpoint exactly what I want to customize. I definitely like that. I have noticed that it takes some getting used to, though. I was trying to turn the elephant's ears downward, because they were sticking up in the air before, and they kind of freaked out. They kept turning at really weird-looking angles and clipping into the head, and though I tried to fix it I could only do so much. I noticed that it was mostly when I tried to move them on the z-axis that they started behaving oddly. They ended up being really long, because any attempt to move them up off the ground made one ear go straight into the head and the other stick out to the side. I don't understand why exactly that happened, but I guess that once I get used to the program I'll be able to fix (or prevent) things like that.
0 Comments
|
AuthorI'm moving on to my 4th (and final) year as a Game Art & Design student at Durham School of the Arts. I'd like to call myself an artist, but I'm a programmer at heart. Archives
February 2020
Categories
All
|