Oh god.

Trying to teach myself how to rig my whale without a proper tutorial is not as fun as I thought it would be. If it was a more human character, maybe it would go better. No matter, I shall preserver, for I have still learned much.

Whale Blubber!

The rough painting is done. I decided I liked his eyes magenta (or whatever the color is) with the color I made him. I think it looks snazzy.

Baloo!

The whale now has a name. I dub thee...Baloo.

I just finished the UV map, after just learning it. Took a while, but I think I have the hang of it in 3DS Max now.

WHAAALE!

He's coming along! He's just going to be a simple little model, but he's coming along! :)
The whale is finally all one model now, and welded together, so no more symmetry. I figured out how to parent/child stuff and how to group stuff today too, in 3D Studio Max! Learning is always awesome!

Tomorrow I'm gonna UV mapping and rigging in 3D Studio Max and see if I can get my whale all ready.

First model in 3DS Max

I made a whale! He's still a little rough, but he has eyes and stuff. Nothing's better than learning from experience and teaching yourself, huh? :P

I learned something!

I learned a little bit of actionscript coding! :D

I made a storybook that's about 12 or 13 pages long and it works! I put it up on my deviantArt account since it seems to be the only place I can upload it online in my usual places. Everywhere else just gets links to it, like Facebook, Tumblr and the blog. For my first bit of actionscript coding, I think it turned out pretty well. There are of course some places where I could fix it up some, but now I know how to do it, so it'll be easy!

Here's the link to Doodlebook #1

I'm also still learning 3DS Max. I'm recapping all the stuff I learned previously, and making a help sheet for when I'm stuck and can't remember shortcuts and how to do something. Sometimes you just need a reminder.