Castle





Making the castle was my first challenge in using 3ds Max. As we had already played around with the different shapes available I had an idea as to what shape my castle would be. I started off with a basic box and then went on to add the turrets onto each corner. This proved more difficult than I first thought as I was so used to viewing my creation in one view and now I had four to consider. I found myself thinking that parts were in place and then once I'd changed the view I realised they were no where near! I think this may take some time to get used to.



Snowman

The snowman was my second attempt at 3ds Max. I found the snowman much easier to create, once I had got used to thinking about the subject in shapes it seemed to flow. The snowman was made out of two spheres, the torus shape was used for the scarf and for the base of the hat and the cone shape was used for the main part of the hat. Some animation was added to this in the form of snow. I was able to control the flow and size of the snowflakes and also change what direction it would fall from.  I felt a little more confident using this programme once I had made my snowman.