Blog #38

Today I finished my prior work page on my e-folio. I am adding a do not push button on the home page so that I can have a final animation for the e-folio. I have made everything from tutorials and it is looking pretty good. I am definitely proud of my work.

Blog # 37

Today I finished the door that is going to be in the closing animation. I am also finishing up my prior work page and after that I am going to add the final animation in at the end of my e-folio.

Blog # 36

Today I worked on the ending effect on my e-folio! It's going to look so awesome, and I think that the animation will look nice with the rest of my e-folio. Can't wait to finish it.

Blog # 35

Today I worked on a door animation for my e-folio page. I still need to finish my social network buttons.

Blog # 34

Today I finished my resume and actually got it linked up to my page. I am now trying to figure out how to make a self destruct button and animation for whenever my e-folio is done. But I am not sure if I am going to use adobe after effects or flash. I will probably end up using both to finish it. : )

Blog # 33

Today I was working on making unique icons for the social networks that I use. Twitter looks pretty cool and I am still working on the Facebook one, I think it might be a little bit harder than the Twitter one. I am excited to see what the will look like on my pages so yeah!!!

Blog # 32

Today I worked on my Academic Resume for the academics page of my e-folio. I am trying to find a way to link the pdf to my page. Hopefully on a full block day I will be able to figure it out because I will have more time.

Blog # 31

Today I added information to my academic resume and worked effects in photoshop for my e-folio pages. Next time I will be adding more information to resume and pages.

Blog # 30

Today I am working on an effect for my slides on photoshop. I think it will look pretty cool when I get all  the final things added to the pages.

Blog # 29

Today I finished my education page. Now I am working on a photoshop tutorial on how to add a sci fi effect to all my pages.

Blog # 28

I am still working on my e-folio all I need to do is add the rest of my information to the education page and I will be done with that and the home page. I took longer than I expected for me to get stuff ready to be put on the page but I added all the AS and figured out how to connect all my pages using buttons and make it run more smooth.

Blog # 27

Today I worked on my education page for my e-folio. I took off all the info and figured out how it needs to look. I also typed up a list on word of all the classes I took in high school to add to my education page. Tomorrow I plan to work on my academics page or my prior work page.

Blog # 26

Today I added some information on my e-folio education page. I just typed what I have used during my high school career, I don't think I am done with that page but I am not sure if I need to add more information or if I need to add  more.

Blog #25

Today I finished my home page and have now started making my education page which I am going to add information to next time. I know in my last blog I said that I was going to add info to my pages, but then when I went to go add the info I didn't have a page to add it onto. So next time I will add my information. :D

Blog # 24

Today I added effects to my buttons and made sure they look good when the user clicks on them. After I am done editing all of my buttons I will add all of my information to the different pages that I make.

Blog # 23

Today I finished editing all of my buttons, and adding them to my e-folio. Now all I need to do is figure out how to edit there over, up, and down stage. After I do that I will start adding my information to the e-folio which will probably take a little while depending on how fast I can think of what I need to put on there.

Blog # 22

It was a short block but I finished added the button and name to my e-folio with my custom Carbon Fiber Background.

Blog # 21

Today I finished my button and will add it to the e-folio on Friday (which is tomorrow) even though it is a short block. I need to finish my title for the e-folio and import to the file so I can figure out what is wrong. :D

Blog #20

Today I worked on the e-folio and got the background and the title done. After I finish adding small details to the buttons I will start adding information to the pages of the e-folio.

Blog #19

I have finished the background for my e-folio, it looks really good. Now all I need to do is add a couple of things to my buttons and then I will start putting information on my e-folio.

Blog #18

Right now I am making a background that will go with my button. I haven't finished the button, but the background will not take as long as the button has because there is less steps. I think that these to combined will make my e-folio look pretty stellar. haha

Blog #17

I am really close to finishing my button for my e-folio. I like the way it looks and hopefully it will fit well with my design on my e-folio. I guess we'll find out next time. :D

Blog #16

Today I was still working on the button that I talked about last time. It is given me some headache but I am slowly figuring it out. It looks pretty nice so far, and it will look good with my e-folio. Well hopefully by Thursday I will have that button done and can just add it to my project.

Blog #15

Today I worked on the button design that I am going to use on my e-folio. It is pretty cool looking so far, even though it is not finished. I probably will be working on it for another 1-2 block periods, and then I will add them to my e-folio page.

Blog #14

I have been gone for three school days; 2 days of this class. But now I am working on my efolio using Flash Professional CS6. Hopefully I can get things to work right, I haven't used it since last school year.

Blog #13

Today I was working on my E-folio in Adobe Flash Professional CS6. I took a small break from the 3ds Max, so that I could get what is required out of the way. Next time I will probably be working on flash again trying to come up with a cool design for my E-folio. Well that is pretty much all I have to say about that....talk to you guys later.

Blog #12

Right now in 3ds Max I am in process of working on a low poly object. The object is the thing that companies use to wax the floor. So far it looks like this....

I don't know what the name of this strange device but yeah it is going way smoother than the last project. As long as the texturing goes well then I will be a happy camper.

Blog #11

The Barrel was giving me trouble. I had the shape and everything; I did what the book said and for some reason the software won't let me add the textures to the shape. I am now moving onto the other object hopefully it will go smoother than the barrel. :)

Blog #10

I finished the barrel but everytime I try to put on the textures, the program doesn't do what the book says will happen. Since the book used last years version I have no idea what is going on and it is really frustrating. Although it is my fault for choosing a book that used last years version I still wish that would have chose photoshop.

Blog #9

Today I tried to make the barrel dimensions match that of the book. This program is hard to learn and now I know why game designers get paid big bucks.

Blog #8

I have made a small barrel and I am abut ready to start adding textures after I finish the dimensions and get them correct. I am happy to learn this program, but since no-one in the class knows anything about 3D Studio Max I have to sort through all the problems myself.

Blog #7

I have finally put the mesh on the box, and I am now working on the environment to go with the box. I am moving slowly but surely. Yay!

Blog #6

I am still trying to apply the mesh to the box and it is not working like the book says. I am just a tad bit upset that the software doesn't work like the lesson tells me. Oh well I will probably figure it out sometime.

Blog #5

I am still working on that box I mentioned in my earlier blogs. But now I am going to put on the meshes, which will make it look like a packaged box in a video game. I am so excited to work with this program; I've wanted to learn how to make 3d models for games for awhile now. And now I finally get to do it!!!

Blog #4

I have received my book and have started on the first tutorial. I am currently making a box using 3ds max. I will be applying a mesh to it, which will make it look like a cardboard box. So I am slowly but surely learning how to use this program, although I think the book I have is for an last years edition of the software. I sometime have a hard time finding the menus and other things I need for this project.

Blog #3

I got my new 3ds Max Modeling for Games book. I am going to try to learn how to make some characters using the basics/advanced skills. I am excited to see what I will be able to make in 3ds Max!!! I am also thinking about using Photoshop CS6 to texture my creations that I make in 3ds.

Blog #2

Yesterday I learned how to make a cube and a teapot. I haven't learned much other than that; it's not the easiest program to learn. But with time and research I should be doing well, and that requires determination.

Today I will be teaching myself how to make other shapes and explore around the program and learn some of it's tools and how they work.

Blog #1

Today I am going to teach myself/research about how to make 3d models using 3D Studio MX. I am so excited I have been wanting to learn this stuff for quite some time now!!!! :D I have never worked with this program before so it will be a challenging process; I will just have to try and stay focused on the task that I have at hand.