The texturing exercise. I should have uploaded it a long time ago.

Here is the Orthographic views of mah Knife.

Story

The story for my knife is that when the mouse is racing around the track, there will be bobby traps where the knife hangs by a rope and swings to and fro across the track cutting anything that is racing down the track. The mouse is racing down the track when he sees the big knife swinging around, and tries its best to avoid the knife but it looks like he is going to be cut to pieces. The mouse tries to speed up to avoid the swinging knife, But the knife lunges down towards the mouse, But lucky for him it only shaved off a few strands of hair off the mouse racer’s back.

Shape

The most hardest part of making my Karambit Knife is the probably the curved blade. Maybe because the blade is curved and there are somewhat intricate serrations on the cutting edge of the blade. Second hardest thing is probably the hilt/cover of the knife, because it is made up of two side, and not as a whole body. The spine of the blade also has a circular gear-like shape with fairly fine teeth for the thumb to rest snugly on the spine of the knife. The textured rubber on the hilt has a crisscross pattern and has bumps and drops.

Research

There are a few ways to go about making my model. If it’s possible, I want to make the different parts separately and combine everything after I finish all the different parts. Since the most curviest part of the Knife is the blade and the serrations, I will priorities it’s research more.

http://www.stephenglover.info/creating-surfaces-with-curves-in-maya-2011/

here’s a link that demonstrates the process of making curvy objects coupled with several illustrations.

                                                          Here is the wireframe image.

E-learnng write-up

Multi-tasking gives you a false sense of having accomplished something. There is evidence that those people are actually worse at multitasking than most people. A study that found that self-described multitaskers performed much worse on cognitive and memory tasks that involved distraction than did people who said they preferred to focus on single tasks.

I feel that learning 3D is similar to learning Programing, it is something that is hard at first but after sometime, We get more in tuned to doing it. After a few practices, it get somewhat easier because we familiarize ourselves to doing things.

My current work style is very individualistic in nature, I try to solve things alone but at times when I cannot understand certain things, I seek my friends for help, and if  it doesn’t work, I will find my lecturers and teachers, but most of the time, I can solve most of my work problems. Sometimes, I also work in a group of friends, It’s easier to ask question and answer each other. But this method of studying and doing work is prone to distractions unless every member of the group is seriously doing work.

I think the last paragraph is trying to say that we as students chose to make learning hard by getting distracted but sometimes we’d focus on the lesson and we can get things easier.

I think lecturers should not try to focus on student’s work attitude, we as students should be responsible for our own attitude towards learning. Sometimes I choose to be distracted, but I do it at my own risk. But I’ve seen teachers that go an extra mile just to help their students from sinking academically.

First off, i make a simple box

Then i added subdivisions to the box.

Change to Vertex Mode

And moved the intersecting vertex close to the sides of the box

Next i extruded the top face of the box downwards, that will make a cavity that will really make it look like a box.

There you go.

Next I selected the top side faces of the box and extruded it out to create the flaps.

I used the rotate tool and placed the pivot downwards so it looks like the flaps are opening up.

next i choose the edge loop tool and applied the loops accordingly 

and i selected the vertex at the flaps and used the move tool to move the vertex out of place

I beveled and Smoothen it.

Voila!

The torn box was made from scratch and separated one of the flaps. so i can easily manipulate the flap.

Because the flap is not connected to the rest of the box, i can easily rotate the box to the desired angles

Reflections: the box extruding the faces is easy but when it comes to rotating the flaps, i remembered my first time, i got very frustrated. but as i keep on doing it over and over again, it gets easy

Washboard exercise

I made the grooves by extruding and beveling different parts of the flat cuboid

and the other parts are simply made up of Cuboids of different sizes

I leveled and aligned the cuboids in place

The grooved board and the back is put together

I copied a piece of the cuboid(the one in contact with the Grooved board).

And placed it at the opposite end of the grooved board

I then made another longer cuboid and placed it at the sides of the washboard.

And VOILA!

Reflection: In this exercise, the alignment part is easy, but the groove board is slightly harder, but it's nothing we all cannot handle. 

My train.

First I made a Cuboid, And short cylinders as it's wheels

and another cuboid for the train's Compartment

here is the basic shape of the train

from here, i shaped the front of the train

and added the top part and shaped it

here is how i shaped the top

and i took the same bottom half of the train and copied it

and i placed the boxes

voila!

Reflection: i feel that the train exercise is similar to the shapes exercise, but here we are required to move around the shapes to create the train

Shapes Exercise

First i made a Cylinder, cause it's simple and beveled it

then i made the cuboid

and beveled it

Next i made the triangular prism, which needs a cuboid first

and by moving the vertices, i made the triangular prism

there you go.

Next i made the smaller Cuboid, which is similar to the bigger one

here, im making the triangle with the arc it the botom

and for that, we need a cylinder.

I put the cylinder directly in the middle.

And used the boolean difference to obtain the desired shape

and thats it.

Reflection: I feel this exercise was easy and i only learnt one thing new from it, which is the bevel tool. Other than that, everything was like a revision to me