Reflection so far

Looking at all the modelling so far I have done i am pleased with myself and the knowledge I have acquired during the process. I have had assistance by other members on the team to start with but then was confident and capable enough to go off on my own and get things done. I am pleased with being able to contribute to the group and also that my work was of a good enough standard to be accepted by them with no changes being made. Myself and Deepa worked on the designing and modelling whilst Guy and Nathan worked on the texturing. Stephen has worked both in modelling and compositing aswell and although time was now running short we have all kept to our jobs quite well and I have enjoyed the whole process so far. Below we will see how my chandeliers look when they are duplicated and composited.

Chandelier Finalised

Now that all of the required parts were modelled it was a case of smoothing it all and then to combine the shapes as one whole object.

Chandelier modelling cont

Continuing the modelling for the chandelier we decided as a group to make the chain holding it to be quite primative and to relly on no support chains but instead rely solely on the main one. This was to get the primative effect of it being the 13th century.

Starting the modelling of the chandelier

Now its time to show you my modelling stage in Maya of the chandelier. i relied a lot on the polygon pre set shapes such as the rings and tubes and again was a case of combining them together. I didnt want the chandelier to be too straight and blocky so I also used circular shapes and cut the faces to get a semi circle ti hold the candles.

Examples of chandeliers

Again it was important that I looked at other examples of chandeliers in order to get my designs accurate enough. I wanted to impress the group and really put the effort in and so far was doing a good job of it. Here are some examples of chandeliers I looked at to give me inspiration for my model.

New task Chandelier

With the oragn and pods well away and sent to Nathan for modelling it was time to move on in our project to any other interior feature that needed to be completed. The team leader then gave me the task of modelling the chandeliers. These were gong to be used for the old church and provide the lighting and there was not much time to get these completed on our already tight schedule.

Final Touches to organ

Well the mopdelling was coming along and I was finding that I was not only building up my confidence but also my knowledge of the different tools used in Maya. I was enjoying it and worked well. The organ was neally fully modelled and now need certain final details to be addded into it.