Fourth Week Blog Post for Project

Project Blog Week Four:

This is my fourth blog post for my modeling project, I have decided to make an animated toy shop scene which hopeful will act like a Pixar short film. On my previous blog I mentioned that I would first create a train as I had already made one for a practice task. I thought I would use this example as a starting point and create traditional carriages such as a passenger carriage, a freight car and well wagons or well cars as they are sometimes known. The first carriage after the engine is the passenger carriage, this was made by creating a series of sections on top of one another to form a box shape, I then added two windows on each side by applying flat planes to the box carriage, which gives the impression that they have been painted on. Then I moved on to the second carriage which was the open top freight car, created using sections to form an open box shape, I then added black sphere shapes to fill the car. My last two carriages were well wagons or well cars, for these I formed a cuboid shape then narrowed the top face dropping it down to create a low sided carriage, these I then filled up with cylinder shapes. Shortly I will be animating the train so that it will move and hopefully creating a smoke effect to give the train a more realistic steam train feel.