Trying to make a chair in 3D (pain in the ass)

Today i decided to model my scene. First I will model the chair, then the boxes and beer bottles. After this I will move on to texturing. Started out with a box shape which widened to make the seat. I then split the box in two and deleted one side. I planned to make one half of the chair and duplicate it.

I began to bevel the sides to make it more realistic. After this I extruded downwards to make the legs. This was a bit of a pain because they didn't look quite right. After extruding again i decided to start over with the legs. I had seen a flaw in my initial chair design and I knew i needed to look more closely at more chairs. The image of my scene only has one decent view of the kind of chair I want.

With the new chair i made the front legs first and worked backwards. I decided to make the back legs and the back of the chair all in one piece. Trying to find the right look to make it feel like a 1930s chair was starting to annoy me.

I made the back legs too thin initially. I had to delete some lines and try again. This still caused some problems.

I then decided to take a break from the chair and come back when I had done some more research, when I will hopefully have a better idea of what I want.

The Book Came In, But I Read Slow

The book arrived on Saturday: express delivery courtesy of mom. I'm not the fastest reader in the world, and thanks to my dyslexia I'm not the best reader in the world either, if there was a competition for reading I would come in dead last. Fortunately this is a book and a subject that I am very interested in; I had seen the film previously but it wasn't a direct translation of the book, unlike the Godfather. I managed to reach Chapter 5 before I had to see Alan today but I know that we can do anything more until I finish the book, which could take a week or two. I don't want to fall behind in this project, I want to be ahead. So far in the book the main characters have been introduced and the first reference to how the trailer could open. The book makes reference to the St Valentine's Day massacre that Capone organised to get rid of the competition in Chicago. I did a built of digging about the St Valentine's Day massacre; The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the horrible deaths of seven people as part of a conflict during the prohibition era. The conflict was between two powerful criminal families in Chicago; the South Side Italian Gang run by Al Capone and the North Side Irish Gang run by Bugs Moran.
Al Capone was afraid of Bugs Moran, who’d been gunning for him for 5 years. In retaliation Capone hatched a plan to end the rivalry by killing him.
On February 14 1929 Capone tricked Moran and his men into arriving at S-M-C Cartage Co warehouse on North Clock Street with the promise of a crate of bootleg whiskey. Four of Capone’s men, two dressed policemen, would enter the building and kill Moran and his men.
The plan went off without hitch that morning – 5 members of gang, 1 follower and a mechanic that happened to be at the scene died in a hail of machine gun bullets. They were lined up against rear inside wall of garage and shot to death. Only one man was not at the scene – Bugs Moran himself. Bugs arrived late and saw Capone’s men go in and he fled when the firing started.
While he lay dying Frank Gusenberg was asked ‘who shot you’, to which he replied – in accordance with the Code of Secrecy (or the Code of Silence) - ‘nobody shot me’.
Capone, who was on vacation in Palm Island state Florida, could never be linked to the murders.
As side note – here’s a joke: when the police asked Frank who shot him in the left ass-cheek Frank replied no-one shot me in the left ass cheek. After this, when Frank went home his wife asked him ‘how was your day’, Frank replied ‘worst day ever, I got shot in the ass.’

Still Reading The Book

I saw Alan today, I was a tad late coming in because I screwed up my time, but he understood. I haven't found the book yet because no seems to have it around here, so I had to place a call to the old mother and she has ordered it off Amazon. When I told Alan this he wasn't too impressed, so we agreed to give it until next Friday, and if hasn;t arrived by then I will have to go out and find it. In the meantime we did discuss what type of trailer i should do, and I am going to make a game trailer, but a 'static-shot' trailer. Alan suggested i should look into The Shining's trailer and suggested that I use this as an influenmce. I did tell Alan what I knew about The Untouchables and that I knew Al Capone was one of the main characters in the book. I did start looking into the Chicargo mob, and watched a few documentaris on how Capone ran this mob. I also found a few F.B.I files on Capone and ordered a few more mob books that could give me some more insight into the gangster.

The Day That Alan Liked My Choice!

Today was D-Day on the book that I have chosen, there were a few books that I wanted to do but one stood out above the rest; this was The Untouchables by Elliot Ness. I spoke to Alan about the other books but he wasn't too keen on them as they were more documentary rather than narrative-based. Then I mentioned The Untouchables and he liked the choice. This book has already been turned into a film driected by Brian De Palma. We talked about what angles we could approach the work from; we agreed that it should take the form of a game trailer. We also agreed that I would use the book as a source rather than the film. All I need to do now is find a copy of the book, whcih shouldn't be that ard. I don't know what type of game trailer i will make yet, I need to read the book first.

1st Day of are 15 week project

Today we were given our solo fifteen week project, Alan gave us a brief description of what he wanted to see over the course of the fifteen weeks. He wanted us to pick a book and either make a game trailer/cinematic trailer or both. He showed us saome example of what the industry has made; for example the Godfather was a book and was then made into a film, then EA Games took the film and made it into a video game. This is the process he wanted to see and we had until friday to decide where we were going to take the project.

Friday came around and I had two very solid ideas; one was to do a WWE style pro-mo and combine green-screen with 3D effects and a backstoy of played-out mini-fights. The other idea was to do a mafia game trailer and base it around how Las Vegas was built. I took these ideas to Alan, he wasn't too keen on the WWE idea, so we went with the Mafia idea. He also liked the 'how Vegas was built' idea, but he said I needed to find a book to back up this idea. He says that I have until next Friday to come up with a book and have an idea of what sort of trailer i want to do, so i'm off to look at books.