The Winter 2006 quarter is over. With only one week between quarters, I have little time to recover. This quarter brought 2 A's and 2 A-'s. Not bad. I will be a teaching assistant again next quarter, while taking 4 more classes. Busy busy busy.

Below are the jpgs from my Computer Rendering class. AutoDesk Viz 2006 was used to create the model and rendering. The images are from a loft project that I created while in Residential Design Development. The concept was a 10th floor loft in LoDo ( downtown Denver ). The computer rendering class only required one room completed, so I did not finish the entire loft. There are 4 areas; kitchen, dining room , living room and art nook.

The original project was created in 3D AutoCad. I was able to import the dwg files directly to AutoDesk Viz. All furniture was built by me, in AutoCad.

I hope to finish the project- just for fun, outside of school- and post those jpgs soon.

Kitchen

Kitchen view; you can see the dining room on the right and the living room on the left. The dropped ceiling panels are glass in this model. Great reflectivity!

Living Room

A second view of the living room from the entrance arches. The lighting failed in the lower left corner, but the fireplace looks good.

Living Room

View from dining room to living room, with part of the kitchen island and barstools visible. The fire in the fireplace turned out great, although the fireplace was supposed to have a rusted metal look. The loft is not completely finished, so you can see the skyline jpg in the background. It appears to be one large window.

Dining Room

This is the dining room. My rat terrier, Jet, is displayed in the art work on the wall.

Art Nook

Note the hanging glass shelves. You can also see the Denver Skyline outside the window. The dining room is just beyond the art nook table. My friend Howard's dog, Einstien, is the art work on the wall. Just beyond that is my dog, Jet, displayed as art in the dining room.

Camera 4

Camera 4
Originally uploaded by lonely moose.

This scene needed better lighting. Too dark in the upper corner. I was trying to show the "hat lamp" with light, but forgot to light above it. Still, some good floor reflections.

Camera 2

Camera 2
Originally uploaded by lonely moose.

Great table of art canvas on the left side. Lighting is good in this one.

Camera 3

Camera 3
Originally uploaded by lonely moose.

I like the mirror on the wall and the reflections on the door, floor and ceiling. All furniture was built by me...note the spikes on the chairs.

Camera 1

Camera 1
Originally uploaded by lonely moose.

View of couch & glass top table in alcove. Note the flowers in the vase on the dresser. Built those myself...you can even see the stems through the glass. I particularly like the reflections on the floor.

I just realized that I haven't updated this blog since the beginning of the quarter. The current winter quarter will be over in just 2 1/2 weeks! Time has flown by and as usual, I am swamped with work. I have continued to be a teacher's assistant for a level 2 AutoCad class. I have also been picking up some paid tutoring gigs from students needing AutoCad help. Both of these experiences are frustrating to some degree; most students I work with DO NOT take notes, they DO NOT save handouts and then they get angry when deadlines come up and they don't understand the work that needs to be turned in. This has generally been true for young and older students. Age doesn't seem to matter. The Art Institute is NOT a cheap school and the expectations are high. Interior Design courses are about $1100 PER COURSE .....PER QUARTER. My quarterly tuition bill for 4 classes is $4212.

My point is: If you are not serious about school....or if you are not sure about your major.....DON'T go to an expensive school. It makes more economic sense to flunk out of a cheap school. Anyway........


Moving on.....I am posting some jpg's of a project from my Computer Rendering class. We use AutoDesk's "Viz" software. It's really a combination modeling and rendering program. All furniture, walls, objects are made by me. After the solid object is made, materials are applied. Lights can be placed in the scene to make it render realistically.....THIS is the REALLY hard part. You can see that one of my 4 jpg's has particularly bad lighting. Each scene took about 6 hours to render on my home computer (PC), so I didn't realize that the lights were poorly placed until after the complete render....and I wasn't about to do it again.

Homework is calling...enjoy the jpg's.