Self-Model -Post 2-

Nose Knows...

Finished the nose and attached it. Everything isn't as smooth as I'd like it to be, but everything is starting to look nice. I especially like how my nose looks.

Front view w/ gridlines

Front view of nose

Profile w/ gridlines

Profile

  

Low Poly

Quarter-Side View

     This is probably one too many pictures, but I got a little screen capture crazy. The profile looks a little wobbly around the jaw line, but nothing a little playing around can't fix. Also where the ear attaches, I need to smooth it into the side of the face.

Thanks for Reading,
    MELANIE S MESCHER

Interactive Design -Assignment 2-

Rain, rain go away...

    This week for interactive design we had to code a complex animating scene. I decided to do a raining scene, since it was raining tonight. When you move your mouse around the screen the little umbrella follows it while it is rotating slowly in the "wind".

Here is a screen shot

     It is a very simple code, but it took forever to figure out all the bugs I had with it. But it is pretty adorable. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading,
    MELANIE S MESCHER

Interactive Design -Assignment 1-

Basic shape design...

     For my Interactive Design class our first assignment was to create a simple design with shapes. We could also add small animations if we wanted. I did add some animation, but I don't know how to show the code on blogger.

     In this design, the stars rotate and the checkered behind the oval rotates the other direction. It took a long time to get everything positioned just right. Also to actually code everything took a little while. Here is an example of the coding of the animation.

function onFrame(event) {

star1.rotate(3);
star2.rotate(-1);
star3.rotate(2);
star4.rotate(3);
star5.rotate(-1);
star6.rotate(2);
star7.rotate(3);
star8.rotate(-1);
star9.rotate(2);
star10.rotate(3);
star11.rotate(-1);
star12.rotate(2);
checker.rotate(-1);

}

Thanks for reading,

    MELANIE S MESCHER

Self-Model -Post 2-

Finished a few features...

     I began to model the face to my reference of myself and have found out a few things out about my face. For one I have a very symmetrical face, also from what I modeled I don't have a very feminine face. However, it is just the first week so we will see how everything works out in the coming weeks!

Ear

Lips

       The only critique i have for myself right now is my neck muscle has too much definition. Overall I am having a lot of fun learning how to model faces on maya. Personally I think I'm learning pretty quickly.

Thanks for reading,

     MELANIE S MESCHER

Keyhole Commercial

NKtelco Keyhole Commercial...

Keyhole Commercial on NKtelco from Melanie Mescher on Vimeo.

      After my documentary NKtelco a local cable company took my footage and created a commercial. Isaac Sell did the editing of my footage and filmed the new footage of Keyhole Bob talking about coming to the Keyhole. Daryl Lawson and his band did the music in the background.

     I want to apologize for the skewing of the video, I think it has something to do with the file I was sent by NKtelco. So enjoy.

Thanks for reading,

    MELANIE S MESCHER

Self-Model -Post 1-

Beginning of a LOONG semester...

Reference Photo

   Okay, so this semester in my Computer Animation II class we are concentrating on one character model. I decided I am going to do a model of myself, because I know my face better than anyone else's. Before we start we began doing basic modeling techniques for human faces, so the model will have good edge flow. 

       

Full Face w/o nose and mouth

       As you can see, we already finished a good amount of the basic face structure. All that we have left to do in class is the mouth and nose.

Thanks for reading,

    MELANIE S MESCHER