3D Class Working in a Game Engine With Final Prop

This week we exported our textures from Substance Painter and imported them into UE4 to create a material.  Spent about 1.5 hours on this process and playing with different settings.

3D Class Week 07 Bake Maps and Digital Painting for a Prop

This week we continued work on the cannon by bringing it into substance painter and baking our high res models onto the low poly cannon.  I pretty much followed Nick's videos on this with a few color changes and a different alpha stencil.  I did play around a bit with some of the materials on my own but wanted the cannon to look like Nick's overall.  I was pleased to find some really cool options and as I get more used to procedural ways of creating materials I find myself enjoying this process more.  After I was done painting my cannon, I did render it out and combine my renders into one document.  Nick's tutorial on presentation was very useful and I can see myself continuing to use these methods of display in the future.  Overall, this project took about 2.5 hours.

Halloween Sculpt Off

We had an in class sculpt off with a Halloween twist.  I chose to make a werewolf.  Done in about 1.5 hours.

2D Teams

I am on a team lead by Leah and including Will, Connor, Kay, Yan.  Together we will design the Tin Man.

2D Class Week 07 Basic Lighting

This week's assignment was to take a picture of an object and try to set up some interesting three point lighting on it.  Then we had to paint the picture in Phototshop.

Anthony helped me take a picture of my Soldier 76 statue and then I hoped into Photoshop and started out by laying some of the strongest lights and darks in the photo.  I tried to take more of a painterly approach and I didn't really care too much about blending, I just wanted those really strong shapes to stand out.  Overall, this assignment took about 5-6 hours.  A lot of the end time was just noodeling with small details and trying to figure out when I could consider this project done.  I really enjoyed this assignment as I view myself as more of a painter than a drawer.

2D Class Week 06 Value

I went for a more marker inspired style for this homework.  I didn't want to blend my strokes as I find they add character and life.  Overall the assignment took about 3 hours to complete.

3D Class Week 06 UV and Digital Sculpting for a Prop

This week we continued working on the cannon.  We created UV's and then imported our models into ZBrush to create a super high res version.  Then we decimated that model and exported as an OBJ.

This homework took about 7 hours because I ran into issues in both the UV stage and creating a high res base in Maya.  I learned a lot though and I'm really happy because this is my first time doing a lot of this stuff.