This is the first post for project one in Viza 613. In this project I will be modeling a  telescope that will be used in my final animation for the semester. I plan to make a short animation that is set to the nursery rhyme “twinkle twinkle little star”. I want the animation to have bright colors and a cartoon-y look. I am going to try to find out more about setting up an environment in Maya.

Here are a couple pictures of my telescope in maya. I used some polygon pipes and a squashed NURBS sphere for the lenses. I threw on the bend deformer and tweaked it a bit just to give the telescope a slight curve to enhance the funny look.