This project was our Final Major Project, on this project we had a choice of doing anything we wanted to show what we had learned over the 2 years to the best of our ability. I chose to go with modelling a car, something i hadn’t done before but something i’ve wanted to do for a while and it was also nice too have a challenge.Â
The first task was research, this is a very important stage of the project, especially for me as I’d never modelled a car before. As this was my first time modelling a car, I spent a lot of time watching tutorial videos about seperate parts of the model, e.g tires. Doing research is always a good idea anyway, as it allows you to discover what you’re going to need for the project and sometimes you’ll realise you need things you would have never known you needed. Overall I’d say research was definitely helpful for me, it gave me methods of doing things that i would have never thought of.
The next task was the proposal. It was pretty much the same as any other proposal, except as this was my FMP, i tried my best to get it to a professional standard. Getting it up to a professional standard meant really going into detail and making it so if someone  were to read your proposal, they could make the thing you have imagined.
Now the big one, production. After watching some tutorials before starting I figured I’d go start modelling my car. The car itself was harder to create than expected. Something as simple as the roof of the car, could be harder than you’d expect and that’s just a simple plane. Also, if the reference images were not lined up to near perfection, it could cause problems in the long run. I definitely came along some problems, some even caused me to just completely restart the project, even a couple of times. The first problem i came across was lining up the reference images, at first i was sure they had been lined up properly but after modelling for a good couple of hours, something just wouldn’t line up, so I started again with hope that I would lien up the images this time. Although I can’t remember right now, I’m sure there is a previous post which explains why I started again for a third time. Third time lucky as this was the attempt that made it too the end and in my opinion went quite well, I still had problems but that was always expected as this was my first car model. Now, texturing has never been one of my favourite nor best spots on this course and I think it really showed on this model, I feel like even if I’m happy with the initial model my texturing skills always seem to bring it down a notch in looks in my opinion. Something that was a huge, huge problem was I accidentally  extruded the whole car without realising which meant everything was doubled up and made everything much more hard work, i tried so many things too fix this and couldn’t and with the time remaining nd the progress i had made, i just chose to deal with the problem instead of starting again for the fourth time.
 Rendering as a whole i came across some problems which caused me to have to render to project THREE times, this was first due to a lighting error, which was actually easily fixed in 5 minutes. another problem with the render they for some reason refuses to fix no matter how hard i try was a piece of the model just being in the wrong place when i render it, I still have no idea what caused this and have sadly run out of time to correct it. That problem made me redo the render which turned out to be pointless as i tried fixing it but the final render still showed it.
My final conclusion for tis  project is that I enjoyed modelling my car but it was a challenge and definitely not without its problems. I would happily model a car again, learning from my mistakes and hopefully doing a better job next time and I will know about the problems that can happen next time. I am happy with the final result but feel like i could have done much better.
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