First Steps

Some first practice Models I did

A friendly hello to everyone who follows this blog. I guess it's been some time. I'll try to update this more frequently once I start modeling on a daily basis, so by any means, the slow start does not mean that I will only post once every two weeks. 

Well let's get straight to business, I'd say. These are the three very first models I did on my own in 3ds Max. Remember that I'm starting off, so these might look kind of... bad for quite some time. Still going to post them here, though, to document my progress, as said earlier in the other post.

This fighter jet was made for a task that I downloaded from my university's student portal. The task was to model a Fighter Jet with no more than 200 Polygons. As seen in the second picture, I succeeded in that. Took me quite some time to get used to all the tools though, believe me. I made this maybe a week ago, but didn't want to post just one model, so I waited until I made more.

Work time on this jet: exactly 1 hour. Though I did this around 5 times, so you can multiply that hour by five.

So this is... an hourglass, obviously. I modeled this roughly after an hourglass I had lying around here while I was looking for something to model. The glass wasn't too hard to make. I just made a cylinder, put a FFD modifier on it and played around with the settings. The stuff around the glass was pretty easy too. Just some cube and cylinder primitives.

Work time for this hourglass: roughly 3 hours with breaks here and there.

And last but not least by any stretch of the imagination is this table lamp I modeled after the lamp I use on my table. For this, I did not care at all about Polygon counts, as you can easily see. It has 5700 polygons exactly and none of those is invalid (5 or more sides) because I fixed those after I was done with modeling it. This was a real pain to make after quite some time because I kind of used the wrong tools at the wrong places. Work time on this: 6 hours. Yes. You read it right. 6 hours for a table lamp.

Well, that's it for now. Not a whole lot more to say here, only that modeling is extremely fun even at my early stages, not knowing which tool does what and such. I'll do another post once I've done some more stuff that might even look better. Might be tomorrow or in 3-5 days. Not another week though, I can tell you that for certain. 

'Til next time!

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo