Considering how complex the process of lighting, texturing, and rendering the animation was in class, I decided to follow as closely along to the class instructions as I could for this week. Overall I think I did well, although the process of aligning the texture on the ball properly still feels cumbersome to me.
This week I redid the bouncing ball demo that we had done previously in class. Overall, I'm happy with the way things turned out, especially since I feel that I made the bounce itself flow more smoothly than when I did it in class.
The model that I made for this assignment is a shield that is meant to resemble a gear. All of the shapes used are modified cylinders, except for the one in the very center, which is a half sphere. In order to make the gear shape, I created a cylinder with the right dimensions and extruded every other face of the shape.
For the first assignment, I made a model of an atom. I did this using primitive objects, specifically spheres and rings. For the rings, I had to change the size of the section radius in order to make them thinner, otherwise there would not have been enough room for the nucleus.
