Phew this week was pretty tough. We all entered the circle of hell this week with Intro to Maya trying to line up our digital cameras to the reference photos. Its hard to explain but it is a much harder job than it sounds. In essence there are three main things that can determine if your camera fits the photo: camera focal length, camera position and the accuracy of your geometry. I managed to get mine finished but it was a trial.
And here it is :D
Thankfully Advanced Digital Painting was a really fun break from Maya this week. Our assignment was to paint a metal weapon. I am really happy with the final look of this guy the work I did over break helped so much.
I started off thinking about who I was designing the weapon for. I liked the idea of using some of Darius's shape language, from League of Legends, but making something a little more playful. I used the approach I picked up from Advanced Character Design to quickly iterate on some forms before combining a couple together to make the final look.
After that I build a couple of texture balls to represent the different materials in the lighting set up I wanted. From there is was just lots of rendering.
Finally had my first Intro to Texturing class after last weeks cancellation. The homework this week was pretty fun, mostly just playing around in Vray. We were all given a pretty cool lighting set up so thankfully all I had to worry about was the material rather than all that complex lighting set up.
Intro to Compositing week 2!! I am really enjoying this class, it is so much fun to just play around for a few hours every week. This week I tried out a teleport effect for bunnies! enjoy!
No Advanced Character this week which gave me more time for Maya phew! This is kinda similar to Term 3 when we kept getting super lucky breaks with class cancellations that seemed to coincide with tough weeks from other classes yay :) For History of VFX we watched the remake of Jungle Book.... This wouldn't have bothered me if I didn't find out that the other class got to watch Warcraft! Noooooo I know that a lot of people didn't like the Warcraft movie but I really enjoyed it, I would love to analyse and make a presentation on some of the FX in that movie. Instead though I have to struggle through awkward child acting and a story that I didn't really like in the original. I do agree that the CG characters, fur and lighting were beautiful so it's not all bad just super jealous of the other class :*(
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