Fall 2005 - Timothy Thao - 3D Computer Modeling - Galleries - Desk Gallery

3D Computer Modeling
APCG 330 Fall 2005

Timothy Thao

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Timothy Thao		Desk Scene



	Me, Myself, in Darkness


	Inspiration The desk scene, everyday scenery for me, symbolizes the things I enjoy doing in my life; not just that, but what I experience everyday. Not much light in this scenery, but enough of it to see what is lying on what, and what kind of things is being settled down in the scene. This darkness symbolizes the atmosphere or environment I work in; dark places, but still able to see where things go. The posters and drawings lying around the room symbolizes things I like to do, such as the poster of “Metriod,” an okay game, not the best I played, but okay. As for the “Linkin Park” poster, I like the band and their music, keeping it sample, I like music. I’m also a “Lord of the Ring” fan, a killer movie; it’s next to the “Sims” poster. For the bass amp, I play the bass guitar for the band I’m in. Posters and drawings I’ve not yet talk about, just symbolizes the same thing as the poster “Metriod,” meaning I love to play games and sketch things that pop into my mind. Other than posters and pictures of my work, I tend to be somewhat a messy person and a person who prefers dark places than sunny places.

Objects	Arcanum CD	timothy thao
	Bass amp	timothy thao
	Castlevania poster	timothy thao
	Desk	timothy thao
	Glass cup	timothy thao
	Go away picture	timothy thao
	Lamp	timothy thao
	Lightwave book	timothy thao
	Linkin Park poster	timothy thao
	Lord of the Ring case	timothy thao
	Mario poster	timothy thao
	Metriod poster	timothy thao
	One last breath picture	timothy thao
	Room	timothy thao
	Take the best of me picture	timothy thao
	Sims poster	timothy thao
	Pencil	timothy thao
	Zelda poster	timothy thao

Textures

All textures and images were photographed by Timothy Thao.


	Problems and Solutions P: lying objects next to or onto other objects was a pain. S: I just move the objects to a different plain where the light wouldn’t be able to affect it by shadows; it only goes for some objects only. P: the glass cup was okay to make, but once it was but into the “Layout mode,” it was kind of hard to see the cup itself. S: I put the glass cup closer to the light so I could see the light bounce off the glass; making the glass cup more visible. P: the use of the light tools were difficult to use, because I didn’t really know if the light intensity was too much or not. S: the way I did it was to render the scene to see if the light looks good or not; and so I kept repeating rendering the scene; the sad put is that I’m still not satisfied with the lights.


	Time Frame All the making of the objects were easy, it took like 15 to 30 minutes. But when it came down to moving the finish objects next to or onto other finish objects in the “Layout scene mode,” things got ugly. It took me 30 minutes to 1 hour just to move one object to make it look nice without shadow being a problem. Another thing was the glass cup. I had to remodel the cup to see if I was modeling the cup correctly. It took about 1 hour. The sad part of this story was, I was doing it correctly all along. The last part was the lighting situation. I didn’t really know how much light (light intensity) is to be used for one of the lights. So, I played around with the light intensity until I felt like it looks okay; took me about 2 hours just for lights.


	References Howe, Arthur and Marshall, Brian E. LightWave 3D 7.5 for Windows and Macintosh. Peachpit Press. 2003

2005 Fall

Concept Design and Storyboarding

Applied Computer Graphics Program
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0410
530.898.5418
ranger@ecst.csuchico.edu

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