My Nano Reef Tank

So I started Building the tank a month ago

Here it is drying. As you can see, I built the filter chamber on the left hand side

so that there wuld be no pipes en pumps in the display part.

Here im doing the leak test. Left it outside for 2 days and there were no leaks.

Ok here is the filter chamber which works like a sump. Water runs over the overflow.

Gets filtered by the spunge thing and bacteria builds up on the ceramic ring. Stage two is the heater and protein skimmer, and stage three is the return pump pumping the water back into the display.

Here I added some live rock to help with the cycle. Also to cure the live rock.

Here is the design of the light fixture which I have done on CAD.

Built it today. just used some aluminium channel. siliconed everything together and it came out really nice.

Now to supper glue the LED's into place and it will look awsum. A little broke now and time to get back to B-Tech work

Project 2

Ive started on my second computers project now.

Basicly the model is finished in cad. Now I have to model in the context.

when finished, I will do exterior animation in Lumion to create a better context.

Interior animation will be done in max to create doors that will open and moving objects.  

Still Renderings

So ive finished my assembly animation and got a crit on it.

Made the changes and started to re-render everything.

I had some extra time so I did some still renders in Lumion which turned out a lot better for the animation

 These are the renderings done in max.

 These are done in lumion.

Just to create a little bit of context.

 

Adobe Premiere

So all the rendering is done

imported in adobe premiere today to do a sequence animation

of tga still rendered images.

Struggled to figure it out but must say its a million time

better than Movie Maker.

The reason for this is it can export as quicktime files

which enables you to boost the final

quality of the finished animation.

avi file rendered at 124mg and when changed to

quicktime and the settings, the same project

exported to 2.3gb.

yes

Movie Maker

So my animation is done rendering on 3ds max.

 

I have exported a quicktime format and a avi format.

The quicktime files are alot bigger than the avi files and must

say they look alot better.

 

Movie Maker does not allow you to import quicktime files.

And when importing avi files and making the animation in Movie Maker,

the quality of the video drops a lot when exporting.

 

Im geting Adobe Premier today as it allows to import quicktime

files and from what I hve read, the export quality should

be a lot better.

Animation Time

Ok, so ive started rendering on Wednesday last week.

 

A week has now past and im just past half way. Im

starting to get really frustrated but yea.

 

The Big Move

So im moving the end of this month to a new place in South End.

 

As i have sold all my fish in Despatch, I think it is

suitable to start a new tank.

 

This is gna be my first attempt at a marine tank.

 

The Design

 

 

Dimensions.

1373mm x 610mm x 480mm

400 liters.

Sump Design

This is the sump tank im gna use.