The warm rays of the morning sun shine brightly into the room of a rat name Ratatouille. He woke up from his sleep,brush his teeth,clean himself up,have his breakfast and all ready for the ride on his mousetrap car.He jump into the mousetrap car and started racing around. After a moment, while he was enjoying himself on the race track. He notice a yellow school bus. To his surprised the bus driver has fallen asleep.He took a quick glance at the kids, They were chit chatting and playing among themselves. No one realized that the bus driver has fallen asleep. Ratatouille saw the bus travelling faster and faster and it was almost as fast as a deer. The school bus is going down slope and dangerously going to crash onto a lamp pole by the road side. He quickly jumps up from his mousetrap car and tried to reach out for the school bus. He got hold of the side of the window. Then he climb anxiously through the small window gap of the bus that is open. Luckily, he gets hold of the steering and steer his way back to the track. “What a relief!” he exclaimed. Ratatouille hole on to the brake and stop the car safely by the road side. He thought of biting the bus driver to wake him up. He ponder for a moment and he look at his watch. “It was almost 9” ratatouille murmured to himself. The children will be late for school. Therefore he decided to carry on driving the big school bus with the huge sterring and transport the children’s to school. Ratatouille smile (: I have save the day !
2) Shape
I have decided to choose a yellow school bus. Yellow school bus is a model that is very unique and special. This model can be difficult and challenging. As there are more parts compare to other chosen object by my friends. Especially the front view/ front part of the school bus and the part where the wheels are allocated. The shape looks a bit irregular or maybe I need to create two different shape together and snap it to point. The body of the bus looks quite straight forward to me. But I have not started modeling it. It might turn out to be a tedious part for the body too. Where the inside of the bus is hollow and it is filled with seats. So I need to think of what are the techniques to used to make the bus(inside) . Where else It is not really complex. This is because the techniques that are mostly taught in our lab session can be applied while I am modeling my school bus. As long as I can see it you have to model the parts out. Seats are also needed as the windows of the yellow school bus are transparent.
Small Components
The seats in the school bus is simple to model. I just have to create one perfect seat and then select the seat> duplicate as many as I want to. Maybe 38 to 40 seats. In order to make it look nice, I can use the techniques like beveling to make the edge looking not so sharp. The smoothness where smooth> changing the division to 2. The back light and front light of the school bus, maybe I can add some lighting on the lights of the school bus. I can see the steering in front for the bus driver to control the car. Including the stop sign, the wheels and the text on the school bus. All this small little components are simpler to model out compared to modeling the shape of the bus.
The numbers and types of primitive shapes
The numbers of primitive shapes are around: 10
There are different primitive shapes found in this school bus. Basically the more common ones are
* Cube
* Prism
* Square
* Octagon
* Rectangle
The polygon shapes that are needed to model this school bus are
* Cubes( Long one for the body of the bus)
* Torus, pipe (The wheels)
* Plane ( For the bottom of the bus)
* Prism shapes( For the front part of the bus)
* Cylinder ( For linking the wheels together)
Amount
* 19 + door and front and back screen panel.
* 6 wheels for travelling
* 38 to 40 seats
* 16 spot lights
* 2 door (One at the side, One at the back(The emergency door)) for the side door. It is split in half. Means its open in the middle ( gap)
Surface
The surface of the bus is smooth and with a shiny look/surfaces. I thought of using ramp to create the feel. The windows are also shiny but it is transparent. (Change the opacity). The wheel of the bus is rough with a rubber texture. There is a lot extrusion and Boolean use to make the bus looks real or come to life.
Technical Aspects
The techniques that I had learn using maya during the lab session is all relevant in developing and building my school bus model.
After thinking through, looking at my model, trying to analysis the different components and parts.
(Body of the bus) ( Front of the bus)
The long rectangular cube. The body of the bus is split into 10 parts ( I can use split polygon tools to split in proportionally) . The edge looks sharp using the edge ring tool> select the edge > bevel it> beveling. Extrusion or Boolean > difference can be use to create the windows of the bus. As it looks extruded inwards. Extrude and Scale manipulator can be use to make flap for the door as it looks like the flaps of the cardboard box we create. For the wheels created I need to use the align tool centering the position of the different part of the bus. I can also use Boolean > subtract or difference. This would create an effect like this. For the front of the bus, I can use extrusion for the front panel and Boolean subtract for the wheels. Beveling for the edge of the polygons to make it smoother rather than sharp.
I can also create UV’s types of UV’s mapping for the texture of the bus. Blinn>ramp can also be a choice for me to create the texture.
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