Week 1: Lab 2 Exercise 3

 Primitive Robot

 Process

The original robot.

The main step of creating the robots is simple, we just have to drag out the shapes we need and scale it then shift and move it around to match with other parts of the body.

As this is my first Maya model, I have a difficult time to create the original robot and it takes me some time to create it. But after I am used to rotate, move and shift the position of the shapes, I saved a lot of time in creating the modified robot! 

MKT-01 Modified robot.

The new name of the modified robot is TSW-07. The TSW-07 was designed to look after elderly at home. It can think, it can help the elderly in their daily life.  TSW-07 has a dream of opening a school to recruit other robots and train them to become a helper for the elderly. The different between the original robot and TSW-07 is, TSW-07 is much bigger in size which means it is more stronger than the original robot. TSW-07 have to be stronger in order to help the elderly. 

TSW-07 companion robot 

TSW-07 companion robot that look like TSW-07. Just a smaller verison of TSW-07, acting like a little brother to TSW-07. 

Week 1: Lab 1 Exercise 3

• Prisons are meant to be scary, powerful looking places, while Toontown is meant for fun and childlike enjoyment – how is this reflected in the lines and angles of the buildings?

The lines and angles of the prisons are mostly in fixed shapes. Despite the prisons and Toontown make use of the same shapes – triangles, square, rectangle, etc, Toontown display it in a much funnier way. Toontown make use of thicker and fatter lines – to make it seems to look like in a fairy-tale world while the prison shapes are all fixed straight which appears to be more boring and strict.

Also, the prisons use the same shapes throughout the building, there are no much different. Where as Toontown use thicker lines and thinner lines in the building which is more interesting and not so dull-looking.  

• How does the sense of scale reflect the different purposes of the prisons and Toontown?

The scale of the prison is large; it reflects of how lonesome the place is where there is large amount of space that enough for individual people to do their own thing. The scale of Toontown is much smaller than the prison; it allows people to all gather together, to appear to be much friendly and lively. 

The scale of the prison is large, but yet, there is still a lot of spaces, there people can all spread out. The scale of the Toontown is small which do not have much empty space, that people have to squeeze together. In another words, it means prison = more space, little people; Toontown = little splace, more people. It is contradicting, as it ought to be more people = more space, little people = smaller place, but it is totally opposite.

With little splace, more people, there is more bonding as people will all squeeze together and just have fun. Whereas more space, little people, everyone will have their own individual space to do their own things which means less interaction with one another.

Week 1: Lab 1 Exercise 2

Week 1 Exercise 2: Sketch a collection of primitive shapes.

By sketching the robot model, we are able to see it more clearly in a 3D form. This will help us in create the robot in Maya as we are able to know which shapes are we going to use to shape it. The exercise help us to learn to think in 3D which will be a great help to us when we are using Maya!