Week 7 - Wooo... wait... How much homework?!?

One week deeper into the monster that is term 5! this week was mostly UV'ing for me.  We had a few good lectures on how to approach it and how to combine groups for UV'ing etc so now I have both my Maya Midterm and my Texturing and Shading Final UV'd phew.  There wasn't a whole lot of time for much else :p

It doesn't look or really feel like a big leap forward but UV'ing can take a long time and really you only reap the benefits when you start texturing so hopefully I can get this scene finished in the next few days and then I can start on the Final! woop!

Same goes for the Defiant ship I tried to get the resolution equal over the entire model to ensure I didn't have any areas of high resolution texture next to low rez.  Now I can start having some fun coming up with a unique story for this guy that I can tell through its texture.

This is probably my finished version for 1/2 of my Digital Painting final.  For Compositing we learned how to use the puppet warp tool so I went ahead and animated this painting, league of legends style! It took a lot longer than I expected but I think it looks pretty cool... for my first attempt.

If you wanna see the animated version of the above painting check out this link!! Animated Splash Art :D

Nothing much to report from history of VFX we saw another couple of cool videos about the gaming industry this week and watched a very creepy interview with an AI... (shudder)  I picked my hero to do a report on, sounds like a junior school project :p But I am going with Neil Druckmann from Naughty Dog for my presentation for next week.

I haven't been too inspired to work on my character design project this week, we had another class where only 3-4 peoples work actually got looked at.  I know that it is supposed to be up to us to interpret advice on our own work from the in depth reviews of other peoples work but we all have such different styles and approaches sometimes it is really difficult to try and figure out how to fix something when you get 0 feedback.  I try to ask for advice after class but we usually run over 30 minutes so there isn't very much time for individual questions.  I will fix the few things I ran out of time to fix before the next class but I am really disappointed with the way this class has been taught this term :( OK rant over time to work on some thumbnails for my next digital painting piece.