Week 1: Lost Already

I have previous experience of Maya which I have been learning for another module that I am taking this semester, I also have experience of Pro- desktop which I used doing A Level design technology. I imagine Pro- desktop is simpler than Blender, but I am about 100% sure that Maya is more complicated, then why is it that I am finding blender so difficult to grasp? I believe its because some aspects of the tutorial appears to be useless like I dont even need to press that button to get it to work, and other things are not there, so what am I supost to do just skip past that process? Surely if I did that it wouldnt work!

I am supost to right click the image in red

























But it doesnt appear to be on my page, I am currently at a stage of 'stuckness', I am sure that once I get the hang of it it will seem like a piece of cake, but right now maya is looking easier, and right now I am unsure as to how to continue, I think I am going to search to find out a way to get the 'icon' onto the page, maybe I have a different setting as standard or something.

Right added a camera, was as simple as going on the add button at the top, I was clearly looking to hard, the only thing is my camera looks slightly different to the one in the diagram and when I moved it to the top it didnt put a bif dotted square around my house like in figure 15, but i'll just have to wait and see if it works.

Right so the camera appeared to have worked as when I rendered you can see the image, as if it hadn't it would have just looked black, however my house is sideways when rendered, i'm not really sure why that is, its something i'm doing to need to look into.

















Now that I have completed the house I want to try and use the same process with different shapes, without using the same tutorials, so that I can demonstrate these skills in action, also the more I practise the moment confident I will become.

In the process of practising I realised the camera was there all along and I hadn't even noticed it, however the second camera I added did the job just as effectively, but atleast I know where it is for future reference. When creating the house for a second time I found much easier ways to complete the task, most of the options were available with a right click option, and the tasks that wern't were already cemented into my brain, so it took me literaly 2 seconds to complete. However when completing the task again I still had the problem of it being displayed on its side when rendering, I am still cluless as to why, as it has not been created on its side in 'Blender'





As you can see the house looks slightly different, but is still on it's side, however I think it looks better as the room is more defined, and therefore more realistic than the first atempt.

Right I have just spent a rediculous amount of time experimenting and making new creations using the skills I have gained this week, and unfortunely whenever I go to render it flashes on screen then goes to black so its very difficult for me to report my progress with evidence, I have tried various camera views etc, and am doing the exact same thing as I previously was, so I do not understand why it has suddenly started to happen.

I managed to print screen thins image before it went to black:


As you can see I just played around with various shapes using the skills learned in the tutorial, as you can see this has also rendered on its side. In conclusion for this week I feel like I am starting to get to grips with the software but I still have a few problems to overcome, I hope I will learn why these happened and how to fix them as the weeks go by.