Starting a Fresh

My new blog.
Let's begin with where I am and what I have started. Currently I have 3 projects on the go now and  an essay on where I will fit into the world of work, I'm think Japan or Norway, anyway more of that later. Today's blog will be on my first piece of completed work: The Solar System. I have spent a good few hours (8 in total) creating materials and understanding movement within this animation. I now understand IK and FK in 3ds Max which I never did before, I've incorporated all the things I have learnt this past month like lighting, materials and forward kinetics. Once the animation is finished rendering I will upload onto my blog, but here is a preview of whats to come:

What I have done is made the base, arms and tripod a reflective metal, used a few omni's to increase the suns rays and make the surfaces more reflective. Along with this the main source of light is definitely the sun so setting the opacity to 100 and adding a omni light into the middle, it depicts how the sun's rays would really hit the surfaces of the other planets. (I also researched into what colours the planets were.) Overall I feel my 3d skills have drastically improved since the beginning of this piece. The things I have been studying are finally coming together.

I will also update the progress of my other 3 projects 'Fantasy Olympics' (thinking cow hurdling) The Still life project, in which I will be reflecting how we groom children for destruction, and finally 'The Chess Player' I have so many idea's flying around for this one I don't even know where to begin.