FINAL BLOG ENTRIES - Term 1 2010

Transferred over the final entries from the word blog onto posting, checking logical dates and headers etc.. Still keen to get to print the final renders today for my own portfolio and keen to get the website hosted with another company where speed may be less of an option.

Lovely to think everything was complete today but a final maths session of the year to look forward to later, hardly reason to rejoice. 

A LONG DAY

A demonstration in poor time management exercised here on my part. 

Having work still to do on the website & the carpark, both of which needed help from lecturers has left me fighting the clock & the attention of lecturers. Too much time stressing and too little actions led to trying to produce renders on a slow network approaching hand in. 

Wanted to match up the safety barriers in my final sketch design with the model but with my knowledge of Photoshop being limited & knowledge of Maya equally slow left no option but to compromise the 3D model design. Hence we now have polygon pipe work rather than intricate patterned barriers.

With no support today on the web I had to rely on my peers for help to conclude the website design & was not alone in our class. Final ignorance, I did not know how the burning of disks works on a Mac & just how long it takes. Next time my time management won’t leave me on the last train home!

FINAL CRAMMING!

Working to a Deadline.

Crammed a lot into a day thanks mostly to having to pick up the old man from the airport a 1:15am !

Pulling the pieces together for the car park, filling in any gaps and appling all the research into credible notes and research document now pushing 30 pages before final edit.  Steep pre-fabricated safety barriers instead of a Saturday night movie is not my idea of a week-end. Note to self – Work harder in the week! 

HATES THE No 74 BUS

Crammed extra classroom time today and looked at adding rendering to the carpark model.  Created the blinns with textures I downloaded and applied these to the model. Also added a sun&sky lighting as well as experimenting with Mental Ray Rendering which is ideal for Architectual visualisations such as the current brief.

Google SketchUp. The class I sat in on today were talking about a programme called Google sketch up. Looks ideal for this type of assignment as it is primarily a CAD type programme that is more user friendly than other programs. Looked this up on line & watched the brief youtube trailer.  http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsupro.html

Mental note as something to take on a trial.

Only days to go so another day of working late after the no 74 bus finally showed 

WEB SITE DEVELOPS

Understanding the Media

Continued to develop the content for the website. Used Illustrator to create a new artboard to include a new about me page and content for this page to include on the website. Agreed for the logo to feature on each page (top right) on the website as a common thread across all the pages on the site. For each of the areas I have decided to write on IE About/Philosophy/ Work again using the logo over the type face proved to be a good look to break up a page that could be text heavy.

Also, with Marks help created the layout for the page showing my work. This could with time be tweaked to have each layer offer a link to a different project where the appropriate layer active as you hover the mouse pointer over it.

Introduction to specialist pathway:

Revisit the car park

Focused on the central tower and covered how to copy the side to make the 4 sided image by joining the edges and bridging across the four corners to make the tower a solid object.