Week 5 - Calm before the storm

This week has almost been relaxing compared to last week but I can feel the all too familiar build up as Term 8 prepares to ramp up towards Finals.

For  Animation I expanded on one of my previous assignments and added some camera work.  I tried to add a story with minimal extra modeling and animation.  The full animation is on my Google Drive archive.

 For texturing and shading we took another step forward with the Midterm assignment.  I built all the base materials my prop will be using.  No weathering, AO masking etc just the basic base materials.  I assume we will move onto weathering next week.  I did enjoy the process of breaking down real world materials and trying to recreate them but when I transfered the materials to my main scene the scale was a little whack and I had to tile all my masks quite a lot to fit the 2K texture res.

 

 I like the look so far! Really looking forward to progressing to texture based story telling with this item :D  I also tidied up the Normal Maps a lot, based on what I learned from last week.


Not a whole lot more to report on for my other classes.  We missed a character modeling class so I am just refining my topology and working on a bit of basic sculpting.  I am not going to bother posting my character development work.  The feedback was positive but I just really don't care about this assignment so I don't want to keep a record of it.
We are taking a break in Level Design to think about our Final projects which we will be doing in VR :D I am super excited to start that!! Counting down the hours till 4pm tomorrow :D
Nothing too special for photography this week just a little bit of experimenting with ISO and High/Low key lighting set ups.

The other fun I had this week was a little extracurricular.  There is a Riot Art challenge happening between now and the end of January.  There are a bunch of categories but I'm going down the environment modeling route.  For the competition I will be modeling a turret and a creep den.  My turret is going to be Void themed, which gave me an excuse to brush up on my Lovecraft reading.  All I have had time to do so far is plan out the rough themes of my models and do some deconstructing of Riot's Void characters and art style.

For my creep den I want to build a little home for my rabbit model from week 1 though I will be transforming him into a Jackalope!