Saturday, May 21, 2011

IN3D Project 1 (Story, Shape, Design)

Story



A rat named Mickey was racing around a track on a mousetrap car. While he was concentrating, he accidentally turned to his right twice and saw a beautiful doe cheering for him. He lost his focus and stopped the car.

Mickey walked out of his car and stared at the doe. He couldn't get his eyes off the doe and so he approached her and asked for her name, she looked down and smile. "My name is Minnie", with a soft sweet voice. Mickey fell in love with her ever since then.

Mickey and Minnie have been dating for two years now
and one day, they went out to celebrate Valentine's Day. Minnie thought her boyfriend had a surprise for her on the special day but Mickey did not even remember that it was Valentine's Day. Mickey did not know that his girlfriend was expecting something from him.

They were walking by the track and talking all night long. Two hours later, Mickey was still talking and that made Minnie really disappointed. Minnie just kept quiet throughout their journey home. Mickey tried making Minnie laugh but it did not worked and that was when Mickey realised that Minnie was acting weird. "How can I forget, it's Valentine's day !" Mickey suddenly remembered.

Mickey walked Minnie to her door and kissed her forehead. He then rushed to the nearest couple shop and bought her an 'I Love You' cushion. Minnie received a shocked text message from Mickey and ran back the last place they went, at the track. The moment Minnie reached there, she saw a red carpet and candles aligned in a straight row. She was astonished. Mickey was on his knees and looked into Minnie's eyes and said "Minnie, my dear, I will always love you no matter what happens. Everyday with you will always be a special and memorable day for me". Mickey stood up and gave the cushion to Minnie. The track was where the story of Mickey and Minnie began.

Shape

After drawing out the components of Mickey, I decided to split it into 9 parts:
Head - Sphere, Cone
Nose - Sphere
Eyes - 2 Spheres and 6 Cones
Ears - 2 Cylinders
Arms - 2 Cylinders
Fingers - 3 Spheres
Body - Sphere and Cylinder
Legs - 4 Spheres
Feet - 2 Cubes and 2 Spheres

After trying out the previous exercises, some of the techniques that I will apply is:
Bevel - The feet as I'm using Cubes and I do not want it to have sharp edges. And also the cylinders.
Extrude - Extrude out fingers before adding spheres.
Align - Align parts of the body so that both will be at the correct positions. Like the ears, hands and legs.
Revolve - The cone-like shape of the nose.
Blinn/Lambert - Adding colours after everything is done !

Design (Pictures/Wireframe sketches)

Front and Back view.




Left/Right Side view


Top and Bottom view


Wireframe Sketches

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