3dmax class day 1

I made a trash can. It's suprisingly easy to navigate, but I'm still bewildered as to how the turbosmooth modification makes decisions.

The way my relationship with renderers stands at the moment is like this: You input data by way of a model and make various codifications based on materials and form. Then you press a button and the renderer (renditioner?) puts out an image that is loosely based on your ideas and mostly based on looking cool. I know there's a stronger connection between the data you input and the results that come out, but so far each time I press that button, what I get is as suprising and magical as the first.

I'm scanning sketches and diagrams this weekend. My studio has started to slow down as other classes are getting more intense (and the other studios start monopolizing the lab computers for their mid-crits). I'm finally getting better at documenting my work as I go along, but it's a little too late for the work from previous semesters that have been destroyed without proper photography or scanning. Oh, regrets! I guess all I can do is try and rebuild (or is it restore? definitely not renovate..) them by December.

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any way you say it, it will never be as good as I imagine it was. nostalgia is boss. the future forever (in the past)

i've been in the computer lab for 22 hours, except for moving my car and getting coffee, just once each!
i feel CRAZY and i didn't even meet with my professor because i am so NUMB.
it's like staying in bed when you don't want to get up and do work. you can sleep for a while, but eventually you'll wake up and all that shit you were avoiding's gonna make your life HELL.
(basically i'm prolly not gonna get a good grade in studio this semester)
(and not because of anything else but my escapist attitude.)
(someone come and get me out of this seat it's so hard.)