Link of Cryengine

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21883462/Levels.rar

Hi Brad

I came back to China on the 19th of June, and I had uploaded part of the required stuff into my blog for EXP 3. I then decided to upload the link of the EXP 3 cryengine into my blog in China. However, China had blocked and restricted every foreign websites so that I had to use a special tool to access my blog and upload the rest of my assignment 3. I was told yesterday that there was no link under my "Link of Cryengine" post, I then realized that something went wrong.. So sorry for the delay but it is fixed.    I had also send this message to you by email. Thanks

Real Time Image Captures

      Concepts of each building are included in the "Sketchup Models“ post

Inspiration Valley -- The Qu Tang Gorge of China

Coca Cola Building and its Elevator (Red+White)

Facebook Building and its Elevator (Blue+White)

Elevator of Coca cola

 Elevator of Facebook

The Bridge

Sketch up Models

 Facebook Building (Power of this building can be revealed through the gigantic shells that are rotated along the levels. And the concept of connection of Facebook is shown through the rotational shells, and the little bridges connecting each floor to the elevator.)

 Coca Cola Building (The shape of Coca cola building shows the excitement which is also the feeling of what coca cola gives to people. The sharpeness of this building indicates the power.)

 Elevator for CocaCola building (The shapeness of the rotational branches which makes connection with the building also shows power.)

 Elevator For Facebook Building  (The stripes that connect with each other shows facebook's concept of connection and meanwhile, also shows power.)

 Inspiration of Bridge

 The Bridge

 The Dining Table Building (The Dining Table building's power can be revealed through its huge roofs of the two parts of the building. )

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36 Custom Textures

Two Point Perspectives

One Point Perspectives

Article Mashup

Facebook -- blue

Coca-Cola -- red

Take Two -- green

Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. By the time of its 50th anniversary, the soft drink had reached the status of a national icon in the USA. There is no other social media brand today that has the enormous global reach combined with the personal intimacy and immediate engagement of Facebook. Take-Two formed the publishing companies 2K Games and 2K Sports to manage a group of newly acquired development studios, and publishing deals with a variety of other well known studios. Today there are 800 million people on Facebook and of those, 350 million people connect to Facebook on mobile devices. Its image has transcended national borders and cultural barriers to reach almost everyone on earth. In fact, on a daily basis, there are 2 billions posts liked and commented on with another 250 million photos uploaded. This is a living map of human connections never seen before. Facebook allows us to connect to our friends, our family, and to the things we care about the most. Travel to the furthest reaches of the globe and you will probably encounter it on a clock or a sign. Today, Take-Two revealed it will take over one of the most successful and acclaimed PC franchises in game
history.


Facebook Reference:

“Leveraging the Power of Facebook,” Social Media Today, accessed May 24, 2012, http://socialmediatoday.com/lindamfisk/385515/leveraging-power-facebook.

Coca-Cola References:

"Beyond Seltzer Water: The Kashering of Coca-Cola,” American Jewish Historical Society, accessed May 24, 2012, http://www.ajhs.org/scholarship/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=270.

“Coca-Cola: The Power of A Brand,” Experience, accessed May 24, 2012, http://www.experience.com/alumnus/article?channel_id=advertising_marketing_pr&source_page=additional_articles&article_id=article_1172770548217

Take Two Interactive References:
“Take-Two takes over Civilization,” Game Spot AU, accessed May 24, 2012, http://au.gamespot.com/news/take-two-takes-over-civilization-6117117.

“Corporate Profile,” Take Two Interactive, accessed May 24, 2012, http://ir.take2games.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=86428&p=irol-irhome.

ARCH 1142 -- Montage It

 The Poster

The model took me more than 40 hours to design and make, even longer than making the Fisher House model for Model It. Once I chose ceramicist as my artist the first thing that came cross my mind was clay, and my model was highly influenced and inspired by the dry soil or dry clay. I considered every aspect while making this model, the artist that I chose is a Chinese ceramicist named Hua Wei, he is now living waterside where there is an ancient kiln and national heritage site near by, that was why I made my selection of these scenes where there are both kiln and water. Besides, Wei likes places with water because the flowing of water gives him inspiration and most of his sculptures have the sense of flowing water. Wei is also a person who likes to use recycle materials and that was the reason why I made my roof a slope to collect rain water. Through this exercise, my model making and photoshop skills were highly improved.

Week 1 -- Model Making

 

The dry soil gave me inspiration.

The initial sketch of my model.

Base of my model, used for products storage (left), and clay storage (right)

Front facade,  Exhibition room(top left), working room(top right), rooms for products and clay storage(base)

Back of the model.

Detail 1 -- Stairs

Detail 2 -- The window decoration, I purposely made the window decorated like this to connect the building with the traditional Chinese style.

Detail 3 -- Stairs to the exhibition room.

Week 2 -- Scenes

The scene that I used for my final presentation.

Week 3 -- Final presentation

The building sits next to a kiln and it is at the riverside, with a natural park on the opposite side.

Look out from the exhibition room, a part of river and the natural vegetation in the park can be seen.

ARCH 1142 -- Model it

The Poster

Bacelona Pavillion: This model took me around 15 hours to finish since this was actually my first time doing this kind of models by using balsa wood, I found it really challenging and frustrating while crafting this balsa wood at first but I got used to it gradually.

The site model of Fisher House: This is the most beautiful model that I made in model it exercise. I actually did one first with white boxboard, however, it looked too bad with no features, I then decided to redo it by using this fabric carpet-like materil. The soft and hairy surface of this material indicates the grass and soil of the landscape.  After finishing this model, I learned that everything needs to be managed and thought well before doing the model otherwise it would be too late to change after all; besides, cutting the fabric and pasting them in the way that I wanted was not an easy job, I spent a lot of time doing this and ended up with finishing this model on time, throughout this process, I had managed the fabric cutting and pasting skills as well. 

The Fisher House: I gradually got on well with crafting and pasting balsa wood and box board, I actually found it interesting at this stage, however, the Fisher House still took me around 30 hours because of its details in many places that need to be measured, cutted and pasted with extreme care. My crafting and measuring skills were largely improved after this exercise. I also found that I still need to improve my time management skills and be more creative.

Week 1: The Bacelona Pavilion

In class practice models.

Bacelona Pavilion by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Internal walls on the pool side.

Internal walls on the other side of the building.

The finished model of Bacelona Pavilion.

Week 2: Site model of the Fisher House

The Fisher House designed by Louis I. Kahn.

The site model of Fisher House, green carpet material indicates the grass.

The detail -- bridge

Finished site model of Fisher House. 

 The completed site model of Fisher House.

Week 3: The fisher House model (1:50)

Under ground floor of the building.

Upper Floor

Finished model.