During week 8 we were tasked with creating a tower after designing it in Photoshop. Using images off the internet, I created a design including images of chess pawns, a factory, a line of pipes and the CN Tower which is located on the border of Canada and America.
In Photoshop I arranged the images around the factory building in a steam-punk like manner with the pipes and bottom pawn representing oil pumps and the CN Tower and pawns at the top representing power silos/coils or lightning rods.
Firstly, in Maya I began by importing the photo and creating a cube to base around as the lower area of the tower. This was then followed by a smaller cube placed on top with one taller and three smaller cubes surrounded by cylinders to give the appearance of fuel tanks. Then, I added a triangle positioned in the middle of the square to create a central tower that would act as the peak of the structure. On this tower I added two spheres, one on-top of a layer of cylinders that, paired together, give the appearance of a steampunk lightning conductor.
Once I had finished with the main tower and spire, I began to add pipes by, firstly, adding cylinders at the bottom of the tower to show extractive pumps connecting into pipes made from more cylinders. These pipes then connected to the rest of the structure such as the fuel tanks. These adjustments improved the over-all design of the model by making it look much more steam punk and gave the impression that the structure was somewhat used to create or store fuel or electricity.
Once I had finished with the main tower and spire, I began to add pipes by, firstly, adding cylinders at the bottom of the tower to show extractive pumps connecting into pipes made from more cylinders. These pipes then connected to the rest of the structure such as the fuel tanks. These adjustments improved the over-all design of the model by making it look much more steam punk and gave the impression that the structure was somewhat used to create or store fuel or electricity.
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