After completing the bouncing ball task we were then shown how to make a simple chair or desk using the extrude tool. We where then to produce our own attempts at modleing a piece of furniture. Most of the furniture in my house is pretty boring, I wanted to try something that was a little bit more challenging- I ended up writing an entire tutorial out for myself.
I decided to try model a bar, after reading through my notes multiple times, creating pieces of furniture was no longer something I really had to think about.. I could just do it. So I created a modern looking bar with shelves on the wall behind it, I added more chairs along the front and placed them into position. I also added hollowed out lights which hung above the bar. I was going to add bottles for the shelves and bar but I didn't have enough time- I really wan't to recreate this room and make it look better by adding lighting and rendering it.
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Next was the bowling ball. I thought this was going to be the easiest one but apparently not. I'm still figuring out Maya so trying to get it to roll the way I wanted it to was proving to be difficult. I also didn't get it to make 'thud' I wanted it to when it first touches the ground. I drew out how I wanted it to be but my animation ended up be very stiff. Last but not least was the crazy bouncy ball. Once I got the hang of squashing and stretching an object I didn't really find this a problem, I attempted two different versions. One were the ball just bounces back and forth and the other where it just keeps jumping up and down. I feel like these two are a bit more characteristic that the other attempts.
We where shown how to use the frames and our X, Y and Z axis to move the object. Once we got the hang of this we where tasked with creating three different types of bouncing ball. A tennis ball, a super bouncy ball and a bowling ball, and any other additional ones we wanted to do.
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