February
12, 2004
Project Finished
Submittion of Project for Computer Science
3710. Included one rendered copy of the Lethbridge Teapot
and Two Different view of Vulcans Enterprise Replica.
Dallas Thomas
001075278
Submitted to: Dr. Steven Wismath Computer Science 3710
Explanation
I used Alias Wavefront's Maya for all both portions of
my Project.
For the Lethbridge Teapot, I used the CV curve tool in
Maya to first sketch one side of the teapot and then using
the revolve tool I was able to create a wire frame model.
All that was left was scaling of a few vertices to make
the lip of the Teapot and the texturing of the model. For
this I used photoshop to crop a picture of the teapot and
used this cropping as a wrap around for the final texturing
of the Teapot.
For the main portion of the project I finally decided to
model the replica Starship Enterprise located in Vulcan,
Alberta. The ship took a lot longer than I expected to model.
I can honestly say there were a lot of polygons used in
the final model. The model is based on three different picture
of the starship I found online, giving me views from all
sides of the model.
Once modelled I used a number of different textures to
add color and detail to the model - however I did leave
out some of the decals, as I was not able to figure out
the 2D painting in Maya with the time I had. My background
is and environmental background offered with Maya. The clouds
I modelled myself, with help of a very large tutorial I
got online.
The hardest part in regards to building each of the scenes
was texturing. I had a horrible time trying to incorporate
layerd textures and then once I figured that out, trying
to make the textures look not plasticy. I would also have
to say, the clouds I modelled for the picture of the starship
were not all that easy themselves.
There is a lot that can be said about Maya and there are
a lot of really interesting features. It is however a very
large program and quite difficult to master in three days.