A different Dimension

College is over and suddenly life has gone dull. And just dull is an understatement. Miserably dull. Spending 12-16 hours a day sleeping and the rest a few feet away from the television screen is hardly life. A few years back, I had so many hobbies around me that I couldn't fit them all in a day. But now, most of them have died out for whatever reason, and I am being forced to take up newer, more interesting hobbies. One of them is, 3D modeling. I always had software like 3DS Max, and Maya installed on my PC, but never bothered to touch them. The hold that Photoshop had on me was too extreme. Finally I broke free from 2D to enter the third dimension of the Magical Maya. I did this quite a long time back but I was a little too over-ambitious.

I attempted to design a car (a Bugatti Veyron!!) without even knowing all the tools available. The plan failed miserably, and I attempted a Dinosaur Head (what was I thinking!!??), that looked like a cross between a croc head and a dino skull. But I knew that I just couldn't do it. I chucked the whole 3D modeling thing and went back to making crazy artwork, posters, and editing photographs..

Now that time is abundant, I took up the issue of 3D again, and the patience paid off. Instead of attempting ambitious models, I started off with simple tutorials from a site called Highend3d. I searched a found good ones for designing tools like screw drivers, gears, etc, with realistic lighting. Using a more conventional approach I finally managed to learn something useful this last one week. The whole week passed by like within a minute. Feels like it was June 1st yesterday and 5th today.

I just played around with the lighting and stuff and got these images below, and clearly there's like 99.99% left to learn in the software.. but there's one thing I definitely learnt from all this, patience is everything. Both while modeling, and also while rendering, especially with a 2.4Ghz processor that took more than 30 min to bring out these images..






So that's my whole week in 4 images...