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THIS BLOG MAINLY CONSISTS OF NOTES I MAKE WHEN LEARNING SOFTWARE, ALL COMPILED IN ONE PLACE - HOPEFULLY IT MAY BE HELPFUL TO YOU TOO!
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Image Making- Illustration
I had to produce two illustrations based on newspaper clippings for my image making module in university- we were allowed to use any...

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Mar 27, 20111 min read
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3D Studio Max: Class Notes: Rendering an AVI
Set up a scene- for this example we will use the same one as before- some simple blocks on a plane, with a single spotlight. The...

Michael
Mar 23, 20112 min read
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3D Studio Max: Class notes – Simple Lighting
1: Set up a basic scene in max, or open an existing model. Choose the lighting tab in the create panel. 2:Place a Target spotlight on...

Michael
Mar 23, 20113 min read
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CD Covers
Our latest brief in image making was to create two CD covers for a band using the photos and mark making experiments from earlier in the...

Michael
Mar 21, 20111 min read
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Photography: Culture
This slideshow requires JavaScript. For the series on Culture, I tried to suggest that no matter how much you try to paint over the...

Michael
Mar 21, 20111 min read
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Photography: City
This slideshow requires JavaScript. In creating this collection of photos for my image making module, I wanted to focus on the many...

Michael
Mar 21, 20111 min read
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Soldier Illustration Research.
Research images for soldier illustration. I wanted something with a photographic, journalistic feel so I looked at existing photos of...

Michael
Mar 21, 20111 min read
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The Marlboro Marine
Photo by Louis Sinco Doing research for this weeks project- we have to illustrate a newspaper article regarding female soldiers on the...

Michael
Mar 21, 20115 min read
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‘Poster for Tomorrow’ Project- Final designs
These are my 5 designs for the poster for tomorrow design contest based on the theme of ‘The right to education’. I did several...

Michael
Mar 20, 20111 min read
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Wine Bottle Project: Updated Final Submission Images
With the font updated, I had to go back and edit my original images for hand in- the new versions are shown below: The box: A billboard...

Michael
Mar 19, 20111 min read
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3D Studio Max: Class Notes – Flat Plane Modelling
1: Draw a plane in front view with one height and width segment. convert to editable poly. Choosing the edge selector, hold shift and...

Michael
Mar 19, 20111 min read
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3D Studio Max – Class Notes: Making the shark swim.
1: Open the Shark that we made previously and select it with the mouse. Apply an FFD 3x3x3 modifier, then right click on the shark and...

Michael
Mar 19, 20113 min read
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Lego Anime Project- Initial Concept Pecha Kucha Presentation
Pecha Kucha final

Michael
Mar 16, 20111 min read
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3DS Max Extra Practice- Chair
This was done from an online tutorial. The only problem I found was rounding off the corners of the metal frame- using the fillet...

Michael
Mar 14, 20111 min read
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3DS Max- Anthropometrics Exercise
Should have had this uploaded weeks ago- apologies! The figure on the left is scaled assembled to my own measurements- the figure on the...

Michael
Mar 9, 20111 min read
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3D Studio Max – Class notes: Making a Shark
1: Create a box 100x30x30mm, and set it to have 3x3x3 sections in the parameters box. Convert to editable poly. Choose the ‘polygon’...

Michael
Mar 9, 20112 min read
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3D Studio Max – Class notes (Making a lego mans arm)
Making a lego mans arm: 1: Make a box, 5x5x5mm, convert to editable poly and apply mesh smooth modifier (2 iterations) to make it into a...

Michael
Mar 8, 20112 min read
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Expression Form- Progress
For this project we are tasked to design a small sculptural piece measuring maximum 50x71x100mm, representing 3 keywords. The words I...

Michael
Mar 6, 20111 min read
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Wine Bottle- Final Design Solution
***THESE IMAGES HAVE SINCE BEEN UPDATED****

Michael
Feb 27, 20111 min read
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Local Gig posters
These are a few of the posters I’ve produced for local bands playing in Ballymena and Belfast. Not particularly professional looking, but...

Michael
Feb 26, 20111 min read
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