Final few days

I spent last night writing my self evaluation. I wrote about which tutorials I found the most helpful and how I could improve my work in the future. I also wrote about my final pieces, and which images worked the best and which ones worked the least well. On tuesday I had a terrible day. I saved all my 3DSMAX files and got them ready for print, but things went from bad to worse when the printer kept printing single lines at the end of each print out, which confused me. I wasted alot of expensive glossy paper and printing credit trying to sort it out. The moment I got the printer working again and got organised, the printer started to run out of ink. I managed to get some print outs of my final tippy's elsewhere, but they are not very good quality, and I was not very happy with them. I managed to print two best quality tippy's which looked great, but the rest were a dissapointment because they appeared too dark and not as sharp as I would have liked. It is apparent from my images and 3DSMAX files loaded on my hand in disk that the images I created, are much stronger then they appear in the prints in my sketch book. I am going to spend today writing more annotations in my sketch book and messing around with rendering on 3DSMAX, in order to improve for my next project.
 

Lighting

Today we looked very closey at the effects of light. We had to find images from films or paintings that show good use of light to show horror, suspense, sci-fi futuristic and romance. Most horror movies conceal the identity of the character by hiding the eyes and features with unfamilar lighting, or conceal information in some way, sometimes by cutting out life forms completly. We learnt about the inverse square law. I noticed how a lot of Sci Fi imagery uses blue lighting or bright lighting to create a flat clinical environment. Suspense lighting is very suggestive, so the audience can wonder what is going to happen next. Romance was an obvious one, the use of red and warm colours was evident in the pictures I found and an interesting use of depth of field. An almost soft effect seemed to appear in many of the images collected. Eyes are oftern focal points in romantic imagery, as you can see a great deal of emotion inside of them. This is a complete contrast to the horror imagery, as people are scared of the unknown and consealing the eyes especially, makes the audience worry of the personality and temperament of the character. We then placed our tippy trucks inside a box and used different lights, like the spot light and omni, to create these topics. We added shadows and switched on absolute mass basis. I also learnt that the higher the sample range the softer the shadows and the lower the sample range the harder and sharper the shadows

Snow day, college closed!

Today the college is closed due to the great amount of snow, that covered east sussex over night. I decided that I would spend today, adding annotation to my sketch book. I managed to get some images printed for free, of my tippy truck being created. I also have a few showing the use of the omni light in an environment I created by dragging a box over the truck. I have stuck these in to show my work in stages. I might also add a few sketches of faces or people expressing the five emotions we have been asked to convey, to inspire some ideas of how to manipulate Mr Tipster.