Week 1 of IN3D

Exercise 2

Did a simple pose of a robot kicking a ball. I call it the 'Soccer-Bot'.

Reflection

Nothing difficult, just simply creating polygons, scaling, rotating, moving and duplicating them. I did a dynamic pose of my robot to make it look more 3D-like and to make it feel like it is moving or in motion, more towards a robot that is alive and moving rather than just a model that stands stationary at one spot. Soccer-Bot is made of duplicated rectangles for the limbs, a large rectangle for the torso and a cube for the head. And as for the ball, it is just a plain sphere without and texturing or rendering.

Exercise 3

The structure of a prison is built very low, and wide, which covers a lot of land area. The structure of the prison is low and wide is because to allow the tall watch towers to overlook the whole vicinity of the prison. A low and wide prison is also to prevent prisoners from escaping, as if the prisoners were to escape, they will have to run a huge distance to reach to get out of the prison. Hence, to allow a clearer view of the entire prison, the watch towers and prisons are usually built with straight walls rather than curve walls, to reduce to risk of having any blind spots where prisoners may use for their escape. In addition, the colors painted on the prison walls are mostly white, which symbolizes peace and repent which is exactly what the prison is built for; for the prisoners to spent their time in there repenting.

Some of the buildings in Mickey's Toontown are built with a lot of curves. These curves gives me a more cartoonic impression of the buildings and the curves also greatly elaborates and brings out liveliness in the building even though it is a non-living thing. Furthermore, the many curves in the buildings kind of remind me of smiles and happiness, as when a person smiles, his/her lips will be in a curved shape. The colors used in the buildings also help to bring out the motives of the buildings, which are happiness, childhood, cartoonic, and liveliness. These bright colors can help bring out positive emotions and make one feel happier just by admiring the shape and forms of these buildings.