Apologies for not keeping up with daily posts on the blog recently, Christmas must have made me lazy or something. To make it up to you, I’ll show you what I’ve been working on for the last 3 days almost solidly. This is a 3D model of a German Tiger Tank made in 3D Studio Max for my modeling course at Portsmouth Uni. I think it turned out quite well considering it’s my first model with the software.

One thing I’ve noticed is that modeling takes A LONG TIME. Seriously. The turret and barrel took me about 5 hours and it’s not even that complex. The details on the back must have taken at least 8-10 hours because of how many times I redid parts after figuring out what I did before was horribly messy (it still is messy by professional standards). I’m sure once I get a handle on the UI things will speed up however, half the time I spend on trying to find the button that does what I want to do. Anyway, here are some high-res renders (click them!).

It’s also apparently been snowing a lot in the rest of England, reportedly up to eight inches (!) back at my house in Witney, unfortunately only a pitiful two down in Pompey. Why couldn’t it have snowed OVER CHRISTMAS, you know… like it’s meant to. Anyway, walking down to the cinema last night was fun, considering the pavements are like ice rinks. I also saw a car wheel spin for about 10 seconds at a crossroad, by the time he got moving the lights had gone back to red and the car behind had to wait again, which was amusing to say the least.

Oh yeah, and Happy New Year.