3D Modelling 2nd Session

The second session was interesting to try to progress from the first, but I think the enormity of the size of the programme is beginning to sink in. After the initial excitement of the first lesson the more there is to learn the more there seems to be to learn. It is always difficult to learn something so complex on only one day a week and to not have the continuity of the following day to progress. So my mind was trying to remember last weeks actions before moving on to next. But that can't be helped and everyone is in the same situation.

Building the chair I think was supposed to be done in one day, but it was clear half way through that it was going to take longer than one day before we got to start to change the chair into our own design. This is because it is sometimes difficult to follow what James has said if you are looking at your own screen and having to turn round or if you are sitting far away from the screen.

One wrong move at some point, which you haven't noticed and you don't find out till much later when it matters, and sudddenly it is all wrong! I kept duplicating more sections than I needed and then later found that sections wouldn't knit together. James teaches using alot of keyboard instructions for actions and because I haven't been using a computer more than two years and am not used to these I find it confusing. I tend to use the menu bar icons and drop down lists instead and will probably stick to these where I can.

The rendering section seems a huge section to understand and I am not sure I get this bit yet. The lighting is very complex, and I know that I have never quite understood lighting in rooms anyway. Ambient, natural, low, light bulbs, ..... there is an enormous amount to learn about in creating the atmosphere of your scene.
I do hope it starts to sink in soon! But it is fun.