Week 4 | 123D Catch

Today Russel bought in the MV Agusta Motorcycle for us to capture photos of and to document. The latest task was to take as many photos as possible by circulating around the bike so that 123D catch can capture as much footage to create a precise 3d model.

When Shooting the Photographs
The idea is to shoot a loop of sequential photographs in small increments around the subject like the example below

Autodesk. "Welcome to 123D Catch." . http://apps.123dapp.com/catch/ (accessed March 26, 2014).

The subject must stay completely still and for the best results adding random scribble marks on or around the object before capturing the photographs will help in the generation of the 3D model.

 

 

I spent a few hours in class trying to generate the catch file. We were told that the more pictures (200+) to use, the more accurate the model will be. This wasn't the case. The software kept freezing after about 90% of the model generating and not only did the software crash on me but also on the other members in the other groups who were doing the same thing.

 

I attempted to generate the model using the 123D Catch web application online as opposed to using the downloaded software version which recommended no more than 70 images but the speed of the internet slowed down progress. Since the online 123D Catch application recommended no more than 70 images, I attempted that amount for the downloaded software and it was finally a success.

 

 



Week 3 | The Motorcycle: The last Suprematist Sculpture

Today we presented our back briefs and discussed how we think we should set up project milestones.

So what is the Project?

Russel Lowe, our Client and lecturer has designed a conceptual collage, involving two different motorbikes, the MV Agusta Motorcycle and the CB750 bike. The idea is to incorporate these two bikes into each other to form one bike. The MV Agusta Motorcycle will act as the front half and the CB750 will act as the back half however, the back half will have to look like a hand sketch drawing and the front will have to look as realistic as possible. The challenge is to replicate the given collage using Adobe Illustrator, however the given collage portrays pixels and Russel wants as to mimic the pixels using vectors.

The last Suprematist Sculpture project involves four main procedures:

               | Developing detailed images of MV Agusta Motorcycle
              | Modeling images into 123D catch
              | Retexturzing CB750 Model which will be given to us
              | Creating a banner duplicating the given collage with the two bikes

This project involves two team members and so myself and Andrew Thantrong were assigned to work together on this particular project.

In today's tutorial we had to present to the class a gantt chart which will guide us through the project to establish deadlines and establish the estimated weeks that we should be working on certain parts of the project.

 

 

Targeted CV: PDF links

COVER LETTER PDF
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70654800/Arch1392%20submissions/Marina%20Hanna%20Cover%20letter.pdf

RESUME PDF
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70654800/Arch1392%20submissions/Marina%20Hanna%20resume.pdf

PORTFOLIO PDF
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/70654800/Arch1392%20submissions/Marina%20Hanna%20Portfolio.pdf