Monday, 10 February 2014

Cinema 4D - Activity 1 Holes


 Firstly I got a cogwheel out of the free hand spline tool and then got a circle and scaled it so that the circle was smaller than the cogwheel. I then made the spline editable by going on the object menu.


I then created a extrude NURBS object, and dropped in both  splines to get an extrude of that shape. I then connected the two spline and dropped the new connected outlines to the Nurbs object . It then makes a hole.
This is what the final piece of the hole cogwheel looks like. As you can see there is a hole in the centre of the object.

Cinema 4D activity 2 Holes

 I started off by getting a sphere from objects and also getting a cube. This part was easy. 
I then make a Boolean object from the add array object menu and inserted both the sphere and cube into it. I changed the Boolean type to A - B. What this does is it will take the cube away from the sphere and make a hole into the object.
This is what the finished but looked like.  This is normally used for making shapes more complicated, or for when shapes need uneven surfaces like for instance you could use this method for using cheese.




Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Problems I Had With My Models

(Model 1) weight lifting bench
The weight lifting bench was really hard to do because I was new to cinema 4D so I was getting use to the tools and things and even though I did the wine glass and the pillar.

The first problem I encountered was the matrix extrude tool, to get the hooks to hold the weights on. I didn't know what it would do I just knew it extruded, but when I looked on youtube on how to it, I eventually after trail and error got use to the matrix tool and got to grips with it.

I also had trouble with the weights ' in the how to do it' blog is different because I expanded and made changes to them because I thought it made the weight bench more realistic.

(Model 2) - Running Machine

The first problems I had with my Running machine was the extruding the sides because even though I tried to get all the faces there was one or two that just didn't want to get picked so every time I tried to extrude it left the faces out so it didn't look smooth. I had to do this a few times until I got it right.

Another piece that I had problems with was the extruding on the screen because it was quite tricky to extrude it when it had a fillet onto it but after a few tries at it I managed to do it.

(Model 3) - Water cooler
The problems I had with the water cooler wasn't much because it was fairly straight forward, the only problem I had was at the end with putting the water into the water cooler to make it look more realistic. I found this hard because there wasn't a lot of materials to go off and I didn't know how to make it look like it had water into it.

If I was to do a water cooler again, I would add extra accessories to it for example cup holders and cups and maybe water coming out of the tap.

(Model 4) - Rowing Machine
At first I din't know where to start with my rowing machine, I tried a few different ways of how to do it but with no success.  But then I learnt about the bezier tool and made the shape out of that in the side view.

Another problem I had with the rowing machine was the extrusion were the screen sits on it. It took me a few attempts to get it alright but I ended up using the bezier tool.

(Model 5) - The File
With the File I didn't have much problem at all because it was quite straight forward. The only problem I had was getting the right size of a rectangle to make it look more realistic.

(Model 6) - The Multi Gym
With the multi gym there was a couple of things that I had trouble with. The first one was with the arc that helps the structure. What I had trouble with was to how to do the arc. I tried to do do two cubes and then bridge the it to make it come together. I then tried to do the bezier tool and do the side view, But at the end I did a cube and extruded to and rotated the object to make it look more realistic.

I also had a problem with the layout and the poisoning of the multi gym because of the picture I modelled it off, but after a couple of attempts I got the hand of it.

(Model 7) - Exercise Bike
With the exercise bike I had trouble with the extrusion to were the bike pedals where suppose to go. I tried it a few times but it didn't seem to work. At the end I realise that I had to click on the button to actually apply the extrusion otherwise it wouldn't work.

(Model 8) - Weight Storage
With the weights I didn't have much of a problem. I just need to remember to click the whole object instead of just clicking the face and to stop modelling in just 3D i need to use the other views as well.

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Gym layout ideas.

 This is a idea for a gym, which I may want my gym layout to look like. I like how it looks full but spacious. I also like how bright the gym is and the colours that they have used. What I don't like is how they haven't used any windows in the gym, or any mirrors what you normally see in gyms are mirrors everywhere you look especially in the weight lifting bit.
 What I like about this gym layout is how bright it looks and how they have contrasted the pink and white together. What I really like about this gym is how they have got a water cooler at the side and have equipment around the poles. I think doing a gym I would possibly have something like this because it makes the gym look different. What I don't like about it is the weird shape of the gym.
With this gym I like how they have a lot of mirrors on the wall. What I also like about this gym is how minimalistic the gym looks. There isn't much equipment in there but it looks good for a basic idea and thats what I like. What I don't like about this gym is it looks too upperclass. I like the box shape of the gym layout and probably do this type of layout for my gym.

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Application of 3D Modelling - Architectural Walk Through

Architecture is a main subject in 3D modelling because it's what the architecture want it brings his or hers ideas to life on screen and helps sell there idea to make it come reality. It is also used in architecture to get people when buying there house, the house of there dreams and making the interior of each room on what they want it look like so they can show the builders who are doing the structure, they can also change bits around on the software to how they want it to be.

This link is an example of how 3D modelling is used in architecture as you can see in the video it shows how it's done and how you can change bits if they want to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhXq8lAY78

Ideas From my 6 objects

This is were I got the image off Google images and this is the website it came off.


1. Weight lifting bench




http://www.bebodysmart.com/items.asp?Cc=B0006







2.Running Machine

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/sports/facilities/ethos/ethosfacilities/energiagym/energiagymequipment




 3. Exercise bike


http://www.sweatband.com/reebok-zr10-exercise-bike.html











4. Multi Gym

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/vlk-multi-gym









5.Water Cooler



http://www.edensprings.co.uk/water-cooler-rental-hire/








6. weight equipment

http://www.ecvv.com/product/4223745.html






7. File



http://www.gd-wholesale.com/wholesale-dir/a3391c/e3410f/file-folder-s-33.html








8. Rowing machine


http://rowingmachine-reviews.co.uk