A 3ds Max journey: Daleks and Wheelie bins

Here it is, the moment I've been waiting for; learning 3ds Max, yay? When I joined this course I joined it thinking that 3D modelling would be my thing and that's what I want to do as a job and it would be amazing. And amazingly i still believe that, hah! This program is very confusing and to begin with I looked at it and wanted to cry, but within a few weeks I've gone from making a simple church out of a few boxes to building and texturing my very first bin. How exciting! Well, maybe not exactly what I thought we would be doing but hey i'm not complaining, it's so fun.
After having a few attempts at modeling a church I started to get a hang of things, until they threw this one in the mixer: "hey now you've made a church, go away and make a Dalek!" ...Urm what? scary at first, and especially seeings as I am not a Dr Who fan myself, but I got there eventually...

Yeah yeah it's not great, when I first did it I couldn't believe it and thought it was the best thing ever, but now i know better and it's just baaaad. But hey it was a first attempt and it helped me learn a lot about the program and how it works and all that technical stuff I now have a much better understanding about. It was a fun little project anyway. Then we got to move on to making a Wheelie bin, and i have to say I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

Yeaaaah look at that sexy bin. The model itself took me a few attempts to make before I was happy with it, but after my 10th attempt, I couldn't help but think, "yeah that's the one" ...but then it came to texturing and oh god I have never been so confused in my life. Luckily we had just started our Guru's and Grasshoppers sessions and one of the third years some how managed to explain what kinda thing I was supposed to be doing, so I just went for it and amazingly it didn't turn out too bad! I have to say I was quite proud of this, now on to modelling a house, oh god. 

Now that I have a taste for 3D modelling and knowing how much of a pain it can be, it's pretty safe to say it's still the rout I would love to go down for my dream job. Lame, I know.