Thu, November 3, 2005
A Simple Car—4:37 PM
My homework assignment this week was to render a "simple car" to go with the wheel from last week. I struggled a lot with this assignment – I understand the new tools we're learning, but it's been very difficult to get their results to piece together into the car I envisioned in my head. So, I focused on the "simple" part and just did the best I could in the time available. Next week's assignment will be to refine the car, so I'll start fresh and add in all the details then.
Certainly I'm disappointed with this week's results, but I look at it as a learning experience. If I could do it all myself without assistance, what would be the point of the class? I have a feeling I'll learn a lot during the homework review portion of this week's lecture, as I ask tons of questions and try to figure out where I went wrong.
One area, of course, is "proportion." Rather than import the wheel and build a car around it, I chose to build a car of my own design and then add wheels to it. This turned out to be not so bright: the wheel is the only thing with any proper proportion, while the rest of the car looks like a bizarre hybrid of Cruella De Vil's hideous roadster and that crimson Little Tykes Cozy Coupe my mom calls the "Flintstone car." By the time I found this out, it was this morning and too late to start over and create all those surfaces again before tonight's class.
Thanks for your support. Try not to laugh at this week's renderings – just think of it as room for improvement in next week's bunch!
Joe Mulder — Thu, 11/3/05 5:37pm
And that we at America's Funniest Home Videos call "the most dangerous thing ever invented." Swear to God. Those and trampolines. We've seen the tapes. And if you ever got into one of those Cozy Coupe cars on a trampoline, I'm pretty sure that you and a 100-foot radius directly around you would be incenerated beyond recognition within seconds, starting with your groin.