Here goes term 9!

One week in and I can already tell this is going to be a tough term!! I started the week with Environment for games, where our teacher dropped some pretty real and a little bleak knowledge.  It was mostly a get in gear speech but it marked the point where everything seems to be getting more serious at Gnomon.  So final year and onto making some awesome demo reel pieces!!  Good luck everyone!

So I made a good effort for the Riot competition and I was planning to keep working at it and finish the whole brief but honestly after this term started I realised I really have to focus on pieces for my demo reel now.  So I did manage to finish the void tower but the jackalope warren will have to wait for a while ;P  Here is my void tower :) I am so happy with this project!! you can see some more images on Artstation You can also see my progress on Polycount.

 For Creature modeling we started simple this week with 3 maquettes 2 human and one of our choosing.  I went with a little rat as my third sculpt.  This was quite a fun exercise focusing mostly on anatomy. I feel that I learned a lot from this exercise just being able to play around with the sizing and positioning of major muscle groups in 3D space.

Environment for games started off pretty strong with the homework being choose a concept to work from and block it in.  Since we are working to a grid for this project the old circle of hell was much easier to live with since there is no way for the environment to fit on the grid and match the reference perfectly so you just have to get it as close as possible :)  I am going with a castle interior which I will be able to repurpose for my game from last term when its all done :)

Thankfully some of our classes interlink this term.  The homework for texturing for games is even catered at building and texturing a few props that would go into my environment final :) yay.  So I have been busy mocking up the high poly versions of some of my environment props.

Rigging was another fun class... lots of fun classes this term yay. Our teacher speaks super fast though and goes through a lot! which I like but its very intense!  For this week we just had to put together a simple human block out broken up into various pieces then set the orientation of each piece correctly and get the naming right.

Lastly game creation looks to be the relaxing class this term.  There isn't a lot of homework and from the looks of it it might be a lot of review of what I learned last term. Still its good to really solidify that teaching and it frees up some time for me to really nail environment for games :)
OK onto another week here goes term 9!!!