Ice Cream

       Who doesn't love ice cream? Except for those who are lactose intolerant, everybody does! For those of you reading my blog, here is some ice cream that I made. This was actually a simple project to do in Maya. All that you really need is a few simple shapes and some color.

       For starters you need the basis of the project. In this case it was an ice cream parlor, with a bowl and a cone. Next you have to make all of the basic shapes, which includes several spheres, a cone, 2 tori (otherwise known as the ring), a background, floor, and a table. The floor, background and table are all made of stretched cubes. In order to make the bowl you first need to take a sphere and cut it in half using a thing called difference. This means that you cover about half of the sphere with a cube and then go to Boleans then difference. That basically just cuts the sphere and gives a basic bowl. If you want a bit of an edge to the bowl You need to extrude the top a bit inward to make it look like a rim. For the ice cream scoop do the same exact thing but then add a cylinder to the middle. For it to actually look like a scoop you may need to use another sphere that fits in the scoop and then  use difference again and get rid of the part of the handle that sticks into the scoop.

       For the actual ice cream you just need to make spheres of different sizes and then use the 3D texture cloud to give it that texture. You can also add other things to make your favorite, for instance I made cookie dough. We also had to make a cone with ice cream in it too. I decided to have a little bit of fun and turned it into a neapolitan snowman. For the record, yes, I did want to build a snowman (Frozen, the movie). It was actually pretty fun making this project and I had a lot of fun doing it. When making the cone all you need is the cone shape and simply add a yellow color to it and add a bump map which gives it the pushed in look. I guess that is all I have for this project.

Until next time, this is Jake Smith.