Story board and final idea

The final idea they will be two groups ships moving towards each other.  One group will have a Star Destroyer and two X wing.  The other group will have three Tie fighters

They move closer and closer then will start firing at each other.  One of the X-wing manages to destroys one of the Tie fighter.

Suddenly one of the Ties fighter fires at other Tie fighter.

Animation ends.



Original Storyboard 

Week Three

Bezier curve tool

Bezier curve tool allows you produce  2D curves but with this specific tool you can have more control of the curve.  The reason is you can have more control on the anchors points which allows you to produce more bends in the line.  An example of bezier tool is down below.  It is used to make an wine glass.  

Once the 2D line is made.  I used revolve tool to convert the 2D Line into a 3D object. Down below you can see the result.  My first attempt making the wine glass looks more like  lamp then a wine glass.  I should experiment with revolve settings to see what I will be able to produce.  I could re do making the 2D line to see if it makes any difference.  The good points are the height of the glass, the shape of the goblet is okay but bottom stem is too wide and thick.

Captain Wheel Week 2 Part 1

Wheel 

I used the tool create primitive 3d Pipe tool to make the  the main outer shell of the wheel. I then edited the width and radius of the 3d Object. Making 3d models with primitives  can make it all more easier and can speed up the process of developing the  3d model.  

I pressed '3' key to see what the the model looks in smooth preview.  This can be very useful to see what the 3D model looks before we actually do any  drastic modification to the 3D object.
The next 3D primitive I used is the create 3D cylinder tool to make the first spoke.  I edited the width and length of the cylinder. 

Once I got the right size I decided to  duplicate  the cylinder to make rest of the wheel spokes.  This  was to make sure all wheel spokes are the same size.  This speeds up the process instead of making all wheel spokes one by one. It is more accurate too.

I used combine tool to make all the wheel spokes into one 3D object. This tool is very useful since it allows you to group multiple separate meshes together which then allows you move,transform and rotate them all at the same time.  If you need to move all objects together you will be able to using this tool.

This image could be improved by making sure all wheel spokes are the same size and dimensions. The spokes are not all rotated at the same angle, some of them are  in front or behind the line of the outer wheel.  The middle could have a little more detail.   If I did this again it would be a lot more accurate. I should make a more accurate wheel spoke template than before. Then I should duplicate it and try to make sure I don't change the sizes whilst modelling. To get the right angle size of the wheel spokes I should use the placement tool and type how big the angle will be and it will automatically place it.

Brainstorm ideas

 

 

• Ship moving around avoiding missiles and asteroids. Look like it trying to escape.

 

• Small group of ships meet another small group of ships and start firing each other
• Ships racing around (Pod Racing)
• Ship going back to their home planet while avoiding obstacles
• ships collide and crash 

Mood Board

1) If this ship was used in the animation, it looks like it could be used as a  leader for small group of ships.  It looks more heavyweight and bulky, this makes it look  like a ship  that would be charge. 

2) This ships looks light weight and is a lot more mobile.  It does look like it would be destroyed more easily since it appears fragile.  The fragile body looks like it would be a  lightweight ship which means it could move fast. In the animation it would be used as a ship that is very mobile and fast but  if it gets hit by a missile it will be destroyed.

3) This ship looks lightweight too but it has more weapons which are all part of the ship. In the animation this ship could be used if a ship needs to shoot missiles.

 

4)  Number 4 looks slower than 1, 2, and 3 but is a  heavy weight model.  In the animation this ship  could be a big boss or the leader of  a small  to medium fleet of ships.

5) This ship appears very fragile and the middle of the ship looks like it would be a weak point. The ship is built of a lot similar basic primitive shapes and it is not as complex as 2 and 3.

6) Number 6 looks very similar to number 1 but it looks  as if it has more weight.  In the animation it could be used to assist number 1.

7) Now number 7 is very interesting it is largest ship by far. It is  the  most heavyweight ship.  In the animation it could be used it to lead an entire fleet of ships. 

8) This ship looks extremely lightweight and it seems as if it has no weapons or very small weapons.  It does look like it would be speedy,  it could be one of the fastest ships.  In the animation it could be used if you need a really fast ship.

References

http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/fa9a603b-97c2-4196-b959-6e4e77f4cc35/8f0f4085-adfe-410c-8e60-7608ce1dfe59.jpg

https://img.rt.com/files/2015.08/original/55db22edc3618868528b457e.jpg

http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2016/star_wars/star_wars_saturday_11.jpg 

http://www.denofgeek.us/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/7/44/x-wing.jpg

https://img00.deviantart.net/e9cc/i/2011/303/3/2/starwars_and_wh40k_ships_2_by_dirkloechel-d39j5n5.jpg

https://imgix.ranker.com/user_node_img/50047/1000931279/original/millennium-falcon-photo-u1?w=650&q=50&fm=jpg&fit=crop&crop=faces

http://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/2016/01/naboo-starfighter.jpg?itok=KvVkziX7

http://cdn1us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/2016/01/outrider.jpg?itok=NnKAPCk4

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1a/85/8a/1a858ab71ea6e1fe603a52cb9ec760f4--star-wars-spaceships-different-types-of-ties.jpg  

http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/74b7b8a2-5016-4f79-8dc4-4f68af0db433/c0d955df-80bf-4eb5-840e-b2d8de6d6789.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/fd/df/14fddf0be5e2f747567c90dacfc6f7f2.jpg

Schematics https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot/sciencefiction/star-wars-rebel/x-wing.GIF

https://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot/misc/other/tie-fighter-2.gifhttps://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints-depot/misc/other/tie-fighter-2.gif

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/books/egvv/isd-eg1.gif