3D again

Okay. I only had like 13 hours of sleep last week from Monday to Saturday cos i need to have my work done. But i did put back in all the sleep on saturday night. I slept right after dinner which is about 8pm till the next day 11.15am. Quite a bit of sleep don't you reckon?
Then again on Sunday i had to continue with my work again. I have hung up my presentation board for Exhibition Design and the presentation is tomorrow. Quite nervous actually. The external examiner is a lady and she is quite a pain. Wow. But the good news is, Ben is coming to visit me on Thursday night itself. I have to meet him when he arrives at night.
On friday, i have another presentation on my business plan but this time it is a group work. I am doing quite well with that subject. The lecturer is really nice and he is trying to make it possible for us to get a HD for it. (High Distinction). He said why settle for a D(Distinction) when we can get a HD. Pray hard.
Somehow i feel my design ain't that good enough but HOng keep insisting that my Exhibition is so nice and structural. But i have to say, my rendering ain't that good. The thing is, i can't understand people sometimes. This is my first time with 3d max and i am not doing such a terrific job with it as i have not really explored everything. I asked Hong for his help and somehow it didn't turn out that nice. It's as if he doens't really want to help or maybe he's scared other's will turn out nicer than his. With my first 3d assignment, i have feedbacks from friends saying that it is not bright enough. It is not that nice. But he said it's good enough. Bright enough. On the other hand, he helped others and their work is like so much nicer. I just can't understand. The wonderful thing is, i need his help cos i am really not good in 3D and i am just learning. He has some experince in it.
Right now, i am doing another 3d animation work. I feel it's not so nice also. He keep saying nice. Somehow he helped others like so much nicer than mine. Maybe i am being too sensitive or being too negative about my work. I have no idea. But honestly, his rendering is nice but mine really sucks. and he complains to me that he's scared of his presentation cos his concept is not strong. But i told him is work is really nice. Then he said only the rendering is nice but the concept is not strong. Then i was like WHAT? meaning my rendering is not nice but my my concept is strong.
Honestly, when he helps me, he doesn't care about how it really looks. And keep telling me not to do this and that cos going to render very long, then say the lighting enough lar. This and That. But when he helped others, theirs is like SO NICE. The rendering i mean.
Well, like my mom always say, when you need people's help and when people help you, what more can you complain. When you want things done well, you have to do it yourself. Sad but it's true. I guess i really need to catch up on my 3D during the hols and learn some new programs as well. I wonder where i can learn and who can teach me. Anyone you guys know? or any tutorial books, website that i can learn? I plan to learn solidworks. Sounds easy and good to use.
Hai~!!! I don't know if i am being too kiasu that i think my work is not good enough or not the best. I guess i have been trying to be the best a little too much. Being the top in LUCT most of the time is killing me here. People here are so much more experience and they range from people younger than me to older than me.
I guess i am just not the type of person who just wants to pass like Hong. I really want to do well. I mean considering i am trying to get a scholarship to continue my studies. I am just trying to get at least all Distinctions and do better the next semester to qualify for the scholarship.
What do you guys think? Is Hong being a little bit selfish or am i being over sensitive over the matter?

Stress-ed........

Cheers.

3D pics

This is just another interior shot i took to show the skylight. I just like skylight.

This is the rendering of the interior space but in the draft rendering. We are given the floorplan and we have to furnished one room. I break open the wall and make the room larger. Got this idea from my homestay. Anyway, give some feedbacks.

I am suppose to render the wine glass in my interior space. This is the only high quality rendering. Everything in there is modeled in 3D by myself. I am quite happy with my first time 3D Max work. Of course Hong helped me quite a bit, telling me what light to use, how to make the glass, the reflection etc. Thanks man.

3D Modeling

I have not stayed up the whole night without sleeping for a long time. I really don't recall staying up the entire night in Semester 6 as well but i think i did. Haha. I stayed up the whole night last night to render my 3D projects. I will post it up here. I did high mental ray rendering on high quality and it took me like 3 hours just to render one scene. I dare not sleep in case my com hangs or something happen. I stayed awake and i have so many things to render.

Finally, everybody did Mental Ray draft rendering so i did that as well. We have to model every object and put it in an interior, and do a small animation. My animation a bit CACAT~! It is damn bloody slow to render animation and it was only like 4 seconds. I don't have Quicktime so i have to render the animation in the lab. I have to render 100 scenes and 1 scene takes like almost a minute. And it is only draft quality. WAHLAU~!!

PLs give some feedback ya? Or anyone can tell me where to improve would be PERFECT~!!!

Cheers.

I AM BACK

My deepest apologies to all for not updating sooner. Had no connection at home and now it is BACK. I couldn't find time to blog without connection at home. I have to do research and check my mails in uni. NO time for other personal portfolios.

Neways, so much has happened that i do not know where to begin. But let's make it short and sweet. I went to Phillip Island, hoping to see penguins but didn't. Despite the disappoinment, it was a good experience for me. Made me grew stronger spiritually. Thank you to my family for the support.

This week is quite an easy week as 2 of my lecturers cancelled class due to personal reasons. I had things to do though. I went for a seminar on applying permanent residency and it was very helpful. Now i know what i need and what i have to work on.

I went to Kelvin's house again on Monday for a house warming kinda thing. He just moved to a new apartment. It is very nice. Two bedroom with en suite bathrooms. Very nice. Walk-in-wardrobe. Beautiful view from the balcony as well. He is staying with Jo and Jo's gf. Both of them from Kunmin, China. Very nice people, my age. Teng fetched Hong and I there. They can cook. The cooking was good. Spicy, salty, all chinese cooking. It was a feast. Later on Hong and I talked to Kelvin bout Lim Kok Wing, about life, about studies etc. Then we played Monopoly and cards. Jo's gf discovered this new game and we played. It was a lot of fun. Took a few pics but it is in Hong's camera. Will get it from him asap.

The next day, i watched Casablanca with Paul. Nobody is free to accompany him. Considering i do not have class on Wednesday, i sat down and watched with him. He loves that movie very much and he adores Audrey Hepburn. The last time i watched Sabrina with him. This time Casablanca. The next one is Breakfast at Tiffany's. Casablanca is a Black and White movie. It was so boring i nearly fell asleep. It was during the war period and i hate movies like that. And the girl didn't even end up with the guy. Hai~! But it was a good break and a good to spend some time with my hostfamily. He is happy i watched with him and he thanked me after the movie. They are still ever nice to me.

And i watched Spiderman 3 with my MSF friends. (Multicultural Student Fellowship). It was really dramatic but rather touching towards the end.

Today, they have a meet and dine event in Pauline's house. Pauline is also my classmate in uni. It was good. I met new friends and they are all very nice people.

Tomorrow there is BLAST, it's the MSF event every saturday and the topic for tomorrow is Love VS Lust. Interesting topic. I will be attending.

I have more pics to share but i don't have them at the moment. It is in Hong's camera. Haha.

I guess that is all i have to say for now. Cant think of anything more for now. Will catch you guys again soon.

Cheers.