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Imagine, travelling by the sky, and suddenly you see a floating island! The island has flora and beautiful nature, untouched by human and nurtured by sun and warmth. The visitor (the plane) is flying circles around the discovery, bathing with this beauty in the sunlight.
Floating Island was my first experience with 3D modeling in such a complex platform as Maya. With the help of some sketching and inspiring works, the idea to create an island, which would float in the air, came to me one day. The most challenging part was to use an extrude function on the ground landscape, and it took me couple of attempts and fails to find a proper extruding form. The fun part was coloring and polishing the appearence. I decided to make the island look unrealistic in terms of chosen materials, for such natural pnenomenons do not happen in reality, unfortunately.
The result pleased me a lot, and helped me use the skills I obtained while working on the island, which became very helpful in the team project - creating a mini cartoon.