First rendering of chosen design

After a lot of debating of which design of my sketches to go for, I finally decided on these designs:

I decided to go for these designs because I love how the main use of the cutlery is part of the animal design itself instead of being a separate part. The cutting part of the knife on the crocodile are similar to its teeth, the curve of the spoon resembles the tongue of a frog and the points of the for resemble the ears and horns of a giraffe. So I thought it was a fun way for children to enjoy their meal times by looking forward to using their animal shaped cutlery.

Also I decided to start working on my Amazon tree frog spoon. I wanted to take on the challenge of making this spoon because I wanted to see how far my ability of creating this kind of shape was going to be difficult but I didn't want to go plain and boring. Creating the frog shape did prove to be a challenge as there was a lot of scaling, rotating and extruding to do to form the body, legs, toes and head. I also changed the colour of the frog and tongue by using the material editor, selecting the layers that I wanted and using the colours of a tree frog and pinkness of a frogs tongue to bring my design forward. Since my first attempt of creating the cursviness of the spoon was a hard task for me to do, I managed to follow through on organizing the vectors to create that perfect shape, or close to what I wanted it to be. I am very pleased with the outcome of my spoon because even though there are many things I would change, I took on a challenge of creating a hard shape on 3D Max and did the best I could do. Here are a few screen shots of different view points and a final rendering of the spoon:

Unfortunately, while I was rendering, the blue colour at the sides of the frog turned up black.

Sketch Ideas and Working with Cutlery

These are the designs that I have been working on over the past month. They are all of the possible options that I have considered for the theme of my cutlery. Even though there a very little features of the cutlery itself, the animal shapes and designs have helped developed my final set immensely. I have enjoyed working through the variety of designs that I am able to work with and looking forward creating my unique 3D model on 3D Max to see what the outcome is like. Here are a few of my sketch designs:

In our tutorial class, we started on working on how to create a spoon. I found this task to be quite difficult because it involved a lot of scaling, extruding and moving vectors to make sure everything was in proportion. Getting the shape of the spoon itself wasn't as bad, because I was used to working with extruding and scaling shapes to fit the form of what I wanted, but whenever it came to using the front port to balance and place all of the vector points in order to give the spoon the curve that it needed it was difficult for me to proceed on. So I decided to leave the main prep work to whenever I would be working on my actual spoon for the cutlery set. Here are some screen shots of me working on the spoon:

Manikin Building

Today we had a speed drawing assignment. This test involved the class drawing from a random object and from which ever perspective they were sitting in we had to draw in certain amounts of time. I liked this session because it helped with my speed in making drawings and loosen up which could come handy in rough work sketching.

In our second class we began working on our anthropometric manikin drawings on 3D Max. We were meant to section and separate each individual part of the body, move the pivot points to each of the main moving point of the body, scale and then attach the body together to form as one. I found it difficult though to scale the body to my measurements since there wasn't an online tutorial to follow through for extra help. So I compromised with what I knew and was able to do and rotated and connected to form as one body. Here are some screen shots of the manikin: