Surreal Room: Americas

Surreal Room: Americas

The lag that I have been talking about in my blogs recently has thankfully been fixed so now it's back to work on the surreal house. So far I have done a little work on the Americas room based on, as you might have guessed, the Americas. I would like to be further along but in the process of making the room I ran into some problems importing some .3DS files and that slowed me down a little bit. Though the beginning of this project might have been a pain, I find out more and more about the software as I go and it's turning out to be a huge learning experience.

Surreal Room

Surreal Room

This week I'm working on making a room in Archicad but not just any room. I have to make the room fit in with our current surreal projects. My idea is really the stairs in the center of the room going to up to Heaven and down to the other place, then I have the four corners, representing the four corners of the world or the four continents. In each room I'm going to put things that represent whatever continent that the room is representing. When I'm finished I think this could really be a nice piece  but for now this is a really good learning experience.

First Archicad Project

First Archicad Project

This is what I have made so far in my new Archicad software. It's not much yet but it will soon take shape. Rooms like the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen are not even close to being done yet but I just wanted to show what I have done so far.

House

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Bedroom 1

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Bedroom 2

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Bathroom

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Front Door

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Dining Room 1

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Dining Room 2

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Kitchen

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La...[loading]....g

La...[loading]...g

This week in graphics i have so far done nothing. Why you might ask? There are a few reasons actually. One would be because my main software (Archicad) will not load... at all. It won't even open my project. See when Archicad doesn't load I usually go back to photoshop but the lag is so bad that i can't even paint a simple picture. So I can't even use photoshop. Honestly I'm surprised that I can even blog right now. "I'm sorry I had to put ya'll in this position, vent to ya'll" as Drake said but there's nothing I can do. I'll try to have a blog that takes a tour through my current progress with my house by the end of the week but if I don't you know why.

Archicad

Archicad

I finally finished up the Dali piece and am currently starting to work on Archicad. I have been playing around with the software a little bit and I'm starting to get the hang of some basic things. I still have a lot more to learn but I've found a series of tutorials that should be able to guide me through my beginning stages. So I present to you my first little project in the making, a basic house.

Throwback

Throwback

Most people are embarrassed of their mistakes or things they messed up. But really, although it may sound cliche, you have to learn from your mistakes. Just looking at this piece, which is the first piece I ever made, I can honestly say it's terrible. I did make the can myself though. Anyways, most people try to hide their slip ups but I see it as a chance to better myself so I post it and let you see how far I've come. Just scroll down and see my latest piece.

Alternate Zebra Tree

Alternate Zebra Tree

I'm now working on this piece while is an alternate to my original "Zebra Tree". I'm still working on it but I think it's starting to look pretty nice. So far I've carefully selected and deleted the old background, added the background and created an atmosphere on the Earth. The hardest part was selecting the tree and getting the branches selected but it's beginning to work out nicely.