Day 4- actually going to finish this mousetrap and render it and do everything.

     Okay. It is the final day, day 4, and I am going to finish this mousetrap and render it if it is the last thing that I do before decomposing into dirt.

    It's a bit like a vicious cycle where I stay up late working on it and then get out of bed even later every day which leads to me starting later and therefore staying up even more.

    Last night after finishing and taking my dog around the block I actually worked on it a little more, and rebuilt the spring. However, when moving it into position I accidentally did something weird and complicated to a control point and rhino got super confused and had to load and think for a long time. After like 10 minutes of that I  just went to bed. It seems to have fixed itself overnight.

    Once I managed to get the spring in position, I decided to just mirror it over to keep it in the right place.

Except this was a lie. It was really hard to get the spring to have the hook fit over the square and have both ends not go through the square or the base of the mousetrap. I redid the spring like 4 or 5 times but I finally got it.

Now I actually got to just mirror the spring. That was much easier because the side I put the spring on second the square metal part was lower so it had a much easier time with the parts not going through each other.

Somehow with a lot of rotating and messing around (and rebuilding the spring once again) I managed to get it assembled in both the set and unset position. Once again my dog is frustrated that I have not taken him to the park yet. I guess I'd better do that. Then he won't be pestering me when I go and try to take nice renders which I honestly kind of fear because even though I am getting better at it, moving around in rhino space in the perspective mode is honestly still super frustrating.

Okay, I am back now and hopefully just literally going to pump this out with enough time left over to take a shower before bed. My dream tbh.

I decided to use an image of a hardwood floor to place the mousetraps on because that is kind of where they would live. I also tried making the atmos-sphere  a William Morris wallpaper because those could potentially be on old houses with mice. I wiggled around the setting with the light too to make it a little less harsh but show the shadows more. I also made the light a yellowish color to reflect what would be in a house. I also tried putting in a second spotlight for some of the photos, why not.

an here are my beautiful renders!

I don't care, I am going to put every single one of my renders in here because I worked so hard on this silly thing that you'll just have to look at them.

Its totally possible that I do not have the quality up on these? However, I imagine once I do a lil repost once I fix the problem with the treat holder thing I can render it again! Rendering it is kind of fun. It's like the computer equivalent of opening the kiln and seeing your gazed stuff.

For the exploded one, I put it in a kind of teal grey plastic box. I had been playing around with materials and I liked the idea that it had fallen into a pool and had fallen apart. Kind of a creepy liminal space feel, abandoned rat infested pool.