For my Spanish class, I was assigned to design La Casa De Mi Sueños, or "the house of my dreams," and label certain items within the house to learn Spanish vocabulary. I decided that I wanted to model my house in 3DS Max. This may have been a mistake as it took so long to render everything that it was barely ready in time, but I had fun doing it, and though I haven't presented yet, I think it turned out all right. I continued trying to use the mental ray when rendering as we had learned to do in Game Design, which may have slowed me down a bit, but did make my images and videos look pretty nice. There was some problems with the lighting though. There were random dots of light sort of like lens flares splayed across the rooms, and while the effect was kind of cool, it was not what I had in mind. I believe it had to do with one of the windows that I modeled distorting the light a lot, but I don't know exactly why that is. Now that I'm not hurrying to finish a project, I hope I'll have time to go experiment with it and figure it out. I reused some elements from an earlier living room I had designed in 3DS Max, but re-textured them to fit in the new rooms. However, I did create a lot of new models as well. I think I have improved a lot in 3DS Max just from the things that we've learned this year. The cloth modifier was especially helpful for making clothes to go in the closet and the blanket on the bed. Mostly though, this assignment was just really fun for me because I got to test out a lot of new materials and it was challenging to figure out how to design all of these different things in a house with the shapes inside 3DS Max. I think it gave me a chance to really experiment since the assignment wasn't based in the quality of my modeling, but instead in just labeling things correctly. This allowed me to take more risks, and I'm very glad for that. Plus now I have a pretty cool house model! If I did it again, I would budget my time better. Rendering took a long time on my little computer, so I wish I could have had more time to render out longer animations. Many small details that would be in a real house are missing, and while it wasn't supposed to be an incredibly intricate model, I do wish that I had at least put some more books on the bookshelves and added a towel rack in the bathroom. I may go back and make those changes in the future, but for now I think I'm going to let this project rest for a bit and work on 2D animation. I'll probably add some of my work on this project to my portfolio, but I think I may need to render a couple things again in a way that better presents my skills rather than in a way that's just good enough for Spanish class. Hopefully I'll be able to share some more pictures of it soon.
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