Mitchell Whitney - Maya Progression

 This week, I have completed my models and submitted them for marking and I have successfully printing my PS4 Controller. I visited the Makerspace on Wednesday to send thew model to the printer and decided to print both a 140mm one and a much smaller 30% scale one. And here is the final model fully completed and cleaned up to the best of my ability.  The quality is quite good, however there are some imperfections that printing staff failed to notice during print and some created just by the removal of supports. The back of the controller is the only place that had contact with supports. Therefore, it took quite an effort to clean and get to a stage that is acceptable. Unfortunately, the tip of the R2 trigger is the part that was not picked up by the staff in the makerspace so it has come out crooked, I assume it was knocked by the printers nozzle. However, Alex did say it wouldn't be too hard to separate it then glue it back on, I just didn't have the time to attempt it yet....

 This week I worked non-stop to complete my second model in time for submission. The result is something I am very proud of, but I am worried about printing the model as it is quite intricate and will require a lot of supports. Unfortunately, due to the fact that i kind of got quite stuck in the grove of modelling, I did not take near as many photos as I did for the PS4 controller.  Firstly, I began with a normal square and began extruding out and following the references I had found. My idea was to make it as low poly as possible so when it came time to import in to meshmixer and create the honeycomb effect, that you could still view the inside. I cleaned up the model and exported as an OBJ and imported it into Meshmixer. I then began modelling the CPU using the live surfaces/quad draw tool. Unfortunately, I did not notice the polygon text tool within Maya before doing this which would've saved alot of time. I then used Nurbs Curves to create a natrual flowing line and copied...