The Brief: Initial Thoughts Week One

The Young Mans Christian Association is a charity based in Chelmsford town centre that provides support and entertainment to children of all ages, three months right through to sixteen years old. The YMCA has been running since 1844 when it was formed by George Williams in the churchyard at St. Pauls, London. This lengthy history should not be lost due to lack of awareness or a certain stigma that currently holds at the Chelmsford division.

The brief proposes we create an advertisement that will be posted to primary and secondary schools throughout the Chelmsford catchment area and viewed during assembly times. It must, therefore, be entertaining and accessible to all audiences from ages nine to sixteen. The brief must raise awareness of the variety of programs available at the YMCA and create a new image for the charity that encourages a more positive, cheerful and welcoming experience.

The modelling technique in 3D Studio Max is almost a foreign concept to me. Previously the only 3D modelling undertaken was the creation of a hidden enchanted room inside an old pub; which clearly uses very different modelling techniques to the formation of an organic creature such as the human form.
However, although this is going to be an extremely challenging project it also will allow a broadening of my current working knowledge of 3D Studios Max that will be hugely beneficial.

The first steps tutorial (cg-india.com\tutorials\3dsmax_tutorials_organic_modeling.html) giving guidance on how to make a head in 3D Max was incredibly useful. The first steps were to take side and front view photographs of ourselves and load them into Adobe Photoshop. Following the tutorial was a fairly simple exercise as the instructions were clear and the benefit to it being an online tutorial meant it could be paused and rewound as many times as necessary whilst the photographs were being manipulated in the first instance.