Day 9: Merge it!

Hey everyone!

It was a very long day indeed...so I just played around a bit with the eye sockets (still not quite happy but good enough to let it be for now) and I´ve duplicated the mesh to make an entire body...well, not too bad, more tweaking tomorrow.

Day 9: Merging a body

Day 8:It´s a head!

Hey everyone!

It was a long day and I´m very tired...still I worked a bit on the hand and dared to duplicate my head mesh...Well, as usual I´m not 100% happy with the complete head. Only now all the mistakes become obvious and there is still a lot of work to do, before I consider the head as pretty.

However, not too bad for freestyle modelling without a template, I´d say. More tomorrow :)

Day 8: It´s a head!

Day 7:Modelling and attaching the hand

Hey everyone!

Today I continued to model the hand and eventually attached it to the body...I know, I know, it´s not the prettiest of them all, but I do remember my teacher in July saying that the hand is one of the trickiest things to model.

I did my best to try and achieve an animal-like hand, which is humanoid enough to animate it easily. I still have to figure out some meshes which went crazy during the merge to the arm, but that´s something for tomorrow.

Time for bed. Good night :)

Day 7: Attaching the hand to the body

Day 6: Body/Arm/Tail/Hand

Hey everyone!

I´m really tired already, so just a quick brush-up on today´s progress: I refined the body, got something that looks sort of like a tail :D and started modelling the arm and the hand.

The hand is still very very rough and too big. Looks like one of these gloves you get in hockey stadiums... :D

Day 6: Modelling the arm and the hand

Day 5 - Head/Body/Tail

Hi everyone!

I continued today with refining the head (still not quite content with the eye socket though) and working on the body and the foot. And I attached the tail! As the tail still needs some modelling you can´t see it on this screenshot ;)

Hope you had a nice Sunday! Tomorrow/Today it´s time for a fluffy tail and arms!

Day 5 - Finetuning head/body/tail

Day 4: "Me pasan cosas raras y no las entiendo" aka Modelling the head

Hey everyone!

Today I had a moment of "Me pasan cosas raras y no las entiendo..." ("Strange things are happening to me and I don´t know why...") and I had to laugh, because I said this sentence many times during my intensive course in July.

As I don´t have a teacher to help me now, I had to figure it out by myself and luckily it wasn´t a big problem, which messed up the head´s mesh. Seems like I really had duplicated some faces and forgotten about it, no wonder everything went crazy after inserting a new loop...but after deleting the double faces everything worked out smoothly.

In your face, Maya! Frankly, I´m a bit proud - figuring out mistakes by yourself is a good feeling, especially since I haven´t done anything in Maya until recently.

Anyways, this is as far as I got today with the head of the rabbit. The eye socket looks a bit weird, I think I´ll go over that tomorrow again...

Day 4 - Modelling the head

Day 3: Modelling continued

Hi everyone!

Started with the head today and made quite good progress until I wanted to start with the eyes..when I tried to insert some loops Maya went all crazy and the new loops I made weren´t smooth. Maybe I duplicated a face somewhere and forgot that...?

Anyways, I hope I can fix this tomorrow (or later today ;) ) so I can continue and work on the eye socket of the rabbit. Plus I tried out a new idea for the tail, but it looks a bit awkward I have to say :D

A screenshot of today´s progress:

Day 3 - Troubles with the head and a weird tail

Next challenge: 1 horita de Maya cada dia! Day 1+ 2

Hi everyone!

In case you´ve forgotten: There is this amazing TED talk where Matt Cutts talks about his 30 day challenges and how they changed his life. Inspired by this I already tried out one challenge, namely taking a picture every day.

For those, who don´t know the video, have a look at it here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html

After being flaky in summer, but still finishing my challenge, it is now time for my next challenge:

1 horita de Maya cada dia! 1 hour of Maya everyday!

Why am I choosing this as a challenge for me? And why did I write this in Spanish as well?

I did an intensive summer course for an introduction to Maya (a 3D animation software) in Spain this year. Shamefully I have to admit that I haven´t done anything after I´ve returned from Barcelona. I´ve had a bad conscience for months, feeling that I had wasted time and money for pursuing my dream of becoming an animator and not having the grit to pull through.

Thus, I have decided to put an end to these nagging thoughts of shame. Time to learn, to improve, time to do my homework and design the conejo (rabbit ;) ) I promised to my teacher in my course.

Let the games begin! Day 1 and 2 have already passed (and I didn´t only spend an hour, but about 5 in total already - totally forgot how much fun this is :))

Day 1 - Doing a character from a tutorial

Day 2 - Decided to model my own character - a rabbit

Being flaky...but still: FINISHED the challenge! Day 23- Day 30

Hello out there!

I know, I know...30 day challenges are meant to be completed in 30 consecutive days...but then everything happened so quickly, summer arrived, I was travelling the entire time, my GoPro was broken and took ages to repair etc. etc....lame excuses, I know.

However, I tried to finish the challenge by taking jump pictures in the various places I went to in summer. And believe it or not, I got the 8 missing pictures now! They are a journey through my summer...Barcelona, hiking, going to Tirol, Croatia and more hiking. It was amazing. Enjoy the tour :)

Day 23 - Prater/Vienna (35 degrees)

Day 24 - Barcelona

Day 25 - Croatia

Day 26 - Hiking in the Karwendel

Day 27 - Walchsee (Tirol)

Day 28 - Hiking in the Karwendel 2

Day 29 - Achensee (Tirol)

Day 30 - Hiking to a summit (Großer Mahnkopf)