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Title: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Fozzy on March 26, 2010, 11:58:44 am

I have just been accepted onto a degree in interior and spatial design because of my computer skills i have picked up making models for Freespace YEARS ago. I will be learning a new program. It is called Form Z and i cant wait to start the course in September. So the moral of this story is if someone says to you "get off that computer, stop messing around with that stupid 3D modeling program and get a job", just say to them "I am aiming to do this professorially, get out of my room i am studying", lol.

big thanks to all of you who were around a few years ago, the skills i learnt really did help. :-)

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Deka1184 on March 26, 2010, 12:11:42 pm

Dude thats great to hear!  :D

Architecture student here, FreeSpace really helped me get a grasp on 3D forms in space and how they perform functionally/aesthetically. I can't draw as clear a connection as you can, but I feel that it certainly has helped me more than I would initially think.

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Fozzy on March 26, 2010, 01:13:12 pm

Yeah, I agree, the design course is engendered towards how forms occupy space and what makes them aesthetically pleasing. similar to what we do when we make a spaceship for Freespace. In fact one of my favorite designers is 'Zaha Hadid', i can imagine her structures occupying a Freespace planet quite easily.

so so cool...
http://images.google.co.uk/images?rlz=1C1GGGE_enGB348GB348&q=zaha+hadid&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=yvesS_2tCYb60wTy0fGNDg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Deka1184 on March 26, 2010, 01:16:10 pm

Wow, what an amazing articulation of form  :yes:

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Wobble73 on March 26, 2010, 06:33:34 pm

Quote from: Fozzy on March 26, 2010, 01:13:12 pm

Yeah, I agree, the design course is engendered towards how forms occupy space and what makes them aesthetically pleasing. similar to what we do when we make a spaceship for Freespace. In fact one of my favorite designers is 'Zaha Hadid', i can imagine her structures occupying a Freespace planet quite easily.

so so cool...
http://images.google.co.uk/images?rlz=1C1GGGE_enGB348GB348&q=zaha+hadid&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=yvesS_2tCYb60wTy0fGNDg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA

I see them more as Star Trek buildings/structures.

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Galemp on March 26, 2010, 07:56:46 pm

Also an unemployed architect here, congratulations on the new job!

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on March 27, 2010, 04:02:59 am

I'm curious, Fozzy. What models did you make for FreeSpace?

Title: Re: Freespace helped me get onto a degree course!
Post by: Fozzy on April 01, 2010, 12:27:06 pm

I made a few things, but i struggled with UV mapping. I made loads of different Aeolus variations, and a modified fenris with an extra hull section and 'arms' coming out of the side where the old dock point was! also a jumpgate.