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Sculpting the Deer: Adding an Eye, an Ear and Fur Texture

My teacher helped me do half of the face for the deer by sculpting the deer's left eye, mouth and nose, as well as defining the jaw/the point where the head joins the neck. These details being added made this sculpture look more like a deer and less like an alien creature.

I then thinned down the neck a bit to make the transition between head and neck a little more realistic. My teacher then helped me with sculpting the left ear and showed me how to add fur texture using some of the modelling tools. I really enjoyed doing the fur texture, I thought it was quite relaxing to do.

I kept doing the fur texture on the left side of the deer for the rest of the session. I also cut into the feet to start making the actual shape for them.

This is what the fur looked like at the end of that session. I think it looks really good, a lot better than the smoothness of the skin that it had before I did this. I'd like to finish this sculpture, although I might not have the time to do so.

Sculpting the Deer: Bulking Out & Adjusting

I had to kind of wing the sculpting for a couple sessions as my teacher hadn't been in. So I just added more sculpey to areas and tried to change the shape of things without really knowing how to do it well.

I tried adding some rolled up lengths of sculpey to the face to bulk it out a little, but this kind of made it look a bit weird.

I added some sculpey to the belly and the tops of the legs to add a bit of bulk to those areas.

I used a scalpel (I think) to cut away some of the sculpey around the face to make the shape a little less odd.

I changed the nose shape a little, by slightly flattening the end. I also added some more strips of sculpey to the deer's body because I kept trying to bulk it out (even though in the next session I had to thin out the body quite a bit).

I added some small-ish folded over pieces of sculpey to the tops of the back legs to give them a bit more shape.

I then started on sculpting the deer's feet, just getting the main shape before cutting into them and defining the toes a bit more in the next session.

Finishing the Posters

I added a curved blue section to the top half of the poster. I then changed the hue/saturation of the top section to an orange that goes better with the yellow background.

I also changed the brightness and contrast of the orange juts a bit to make it a little bit brighter.

I then copied the background from the good poster and put it onto the bad poster and changed the hue/saturation of it to a purple. I also moved the monkey mascot to the opposite corner that I put Ringo in on the good poster.

Then I drew a banana peel next to the burger, this kind of fits into the "rubbish" theme and also links to the monkey mascot. I used the brush tool to sketch this out on one layer, then made a new layer and did the line work.

After I did the line work, I made a new layer underneath the lines and added the colours.

I resized the banana peel a bit to look a bit better next to the burger. I also added a spiky speech box for the monkey mascot.

I then used the brush tool in the colour red to cross out the "Ringo's" part of the name and write "Martin's" instead (I named the monkey mascot Martin). I also wrote "Only the best trash as Martin's" in the speech box, as though this poster/company is trying to one-up Ringo's - which I think is kinda of funny.

Cinema 4D Doorway

I opened Cinema 4D and got a tree from the object catalogue, I then removed the leaves from the tree so it looked dead.

I then opened Illustrator and opened my moodboard/sketch image for my doorway idea. I opened it in Illustrator so that I could trace over the details of the door so I can add it into Cinema 4D later.

I used the pen tool first, but I hated how it looked so I erased that and did it again using the brush tool. This came out with a much smoother line than the pen tool and I definitely prefer it.

Here is what the details look like without the sketch underneath.

I was then given some help by one of my teachers with duplicating the trees, adding in a door stand-in, some fog and setting the time for the lighting.

This is what it looks like when rendered.

I then followed a tutorial on YouTube that showed me how to make a curved archway for the door frame. I used the front view(?) which allowed me to draw the door shape in 2D.

I then changed the view back to how I had it originally. I accidentally forgot to add the shape of the frame when in the front view, so I had to rewind the tutorial and do that.

I then used the sweep option to make the shape into the door frame in 3D.

After doing the sweep, I resized the frame so that it fit over the placeholder shape. I then got rid of the placeholder and rendered it again. I still have quite a bit to do to this; add the actual door, the door details, some rocks, leaves on the floor etc.

Posters: Adding Textures

I was given this Jaws poster and a selection of textures to use on different layers with layer effects (?) to make it look aged.

I kept adding different textures to the poster, playing with the layer effects and opacity of the different textures. After I had played about with this poster, I started adding textures to my own poster.

I decided to use this crumpled paper texture on my good poster. I really like how this looks with the colour of the background and the other elements of the poster. It definitely makes it look more interesting than if I didn't add it.

Posters Using Textures Research

I think this poster has used textures similar to the two that I have put under it. These textures effectively make the poster looked aged in a rather cool way.

Looking at these posters I think that these textures (or ones similar) have been used to age them. I think they look quite cool and don't look as aged/not as dramatically aged (?) as the previous poster.

Using textures like these will make my posters look a bit more interesting.

Good Poster: Adding Trash!

I used the brush tool in Photoshop to sketch out these bin bags and rubbish piles. I thought adding these things to the poster would make it more interesting and fit more with the "rotten rubbish" theme.

I then made a new layer, lowered the opacity of the sketch layer, put the smoothing of the brush to 100% and did the lineart.

I then made a new layer underneath the lines layer to add in the base colours. I also think the colours look quite nice with the paper texture that I put onto the poster.

I then locked the layer so that I could add colour onto the existing colours without going out of the lines and added some highlights/shadows. This makes the trash look more interesting, I think.

I then made the trash a bit bigger and moved it closer to the burger.

Then, with the help of my teacher, I rearranged the elements of the poster and added some things to it. I moved and changed the size of the name and moved Ringo down to the right hand corner. I added a little speech box for Ringo (the small text in the corner of this box says "dodgy company stuff") and a line with a fly underneath the name as well as a puddle that I found on google. I adjusted the hue & saturation as well as the brightness of the burger and the puddle to make them both look more gross. I then remembered to put the paper texture back onto the poster (I had taken it off so that I could move the elements around the canvas without accidentally selecting the texture).

Deer Sculpture Process: Legs & Feet

Once the paper mache on the legs had dried, I started adding the super sculpey to them. I ran the sculpey through the pasta machine on the 5th setting so that it was quite thin and didn't bulk up the legs too much.

I then added some more sculpey to the tops of the legs to build up the thighs a bit more. I used clay tools to smooth the sculpey out and blend it into the rest of the body.

I then used bits of sculpey to sculpt little shoe shapes onto the bottom of the legs, I did this so that it would be easier to sculpt the feet later on. I then, using a scalpel, cut diagonally at the back of the foot to make the shape that deer feet have. I also cut into the middle of the front of the foot to make the deer's toes and used a tool to separate them slightly.

Restaurant Name & Logo (?)

Above shows some ideas that me and one of my teachers where coming up with for the name of my restaurant and some ideas for the logo/font for it. In the end, I went for "Ringo's Rotten Rubbish" as I like the alliteration and I think having a raccoon called Ringo is quite funny.

I found this font on a website called Dafont and downloaded it so that I could use it in Photoshop. I got rid of the original tail (?) of the "g" in so that I could draw a raccoon's tail for it instead to tie in the fact that Ringo is a raccoon. I used the brush tool in Photoshop to sketch the tail out.

I then lined the tail, I originally had a black outline for it but I thought that putting the tail's colours onto the line would make it look better, so I went with that instead.

I then duplicated the text, made it a darker grey and moved it slightly below the original text to give it a shadow.

Then, using a different font that I also got from Dafont, I wrote "Rotten Rubbish" and used a text manipulation tool to give it a slight wave. I think these two fonts look really good together.

Deer Sculpture: Bulking out & Starting Sculpting

After I had finished with the armature, I started bulking out the shape of the deer so that it would be easier to sculpt onto. I used some tin foil and masking tape, packing small-ish bits of foil into the gaps in the torso, neck and the tops of the legs and using the tape to keep the foil in place. I just used tape on the legs as I wanted to keep them as thin as possible, as real deer legs are quite thin.

I wrapped the front legs in tape too. I had to add some tin foil to the tops of the back legs, so that they were a bit thicker before I added the tape.

I then added a bit of foil to make the rough head shape. Looking back on it, I should've asked for a bit more assistance with the head shape as I don't like how it looks because it looks nothing like a deer head. I added even more tape and kind of flat bits of foil just to build up the shape more.

I then used some bits of tissue paper and my teacher mixed up some flour and water so I could paper mache on the legs to make them a bit stronger. I dipped small strips of tissue paper into the mixture and wrapped them round the legs. (I HATED touching the tissue paper with the paper mache mixture on it because the smell and texture kind of made me want to throw up).

While I was waiting for the paper mache to dry, I started adding the super sculpey to the head and body. I just kind of put bits onto it first, so it was on there before I started properly doing anything with it.

Deer Armature Process

I first got some lengths of floristry wire and twisted them together while holding the ends with some pliers (the same way I made the legs last time). I made 6 twisted lengths of wire as I thought I'd need all of them for the legs, I think I ended up only needing 4 of them though.

My teacher then started the armature off so that I had something to work with. I then added the front legs using the wire that I twisted together previously and twisted together the excess wire that was used for the body to make one of the back legs. I also added a bit of wire connecting the neck to the body to give it more structure.

I then added the middle legs to the armature and some extra wire to the legs attaching from about the knee to the torso in a triangle shape to give it more structure for me to sculpt onto later. I also wrapped some wire around the mid-point of the legs to be the knees. I also bent the back leg so that it resembled a real deer leg a bit more.

I twisted the extra wire together with another length of wire to make the other back leg and bent/shaped it to be the same as the other. I also added some wire to give structure to the belly of the deer. I used smaller lengths of wire to make the back legs a bit stronger, wrapping it round the end of the torso and attaching it to just below the knee. I also put some wire to be the base for the deer's back.

Good and Bad Burger Designs

I was given this Photoshop document to work on to make a good and a bad burger design.

I used the hue/saturation option to change the colour of the buns to a darker, less-saturated brown-grey colour.

Then, on a new layer, I sketched out a dripping shape using the brush tool to be some blood in the burger. After I had sketched out the shape I made a new layer on top of the sketch, turned the smoothing of the brush up to 100% and lined the shape.

After the line art comes the colouring. I made a new layer underneath my lines then I chose a dark-ish red colour for the base. After the base colour I added an even darker red to the middle of the shape for shadow and some lighter red/white to the drips for some highlights.

I then moved the layers so that they sat together and built the burgers. (I also added some purple to the buns and the cheese - which can't really be seen - on the bad burger). This is what my good and bad burgers look like side by side. I didn't do anything to the good burger as I mainly wanted to focus on making the bad burger look gross.

Neon Cinema 4D Process

I first opened Cinema 4D and clicked on the icon that looks like a bag with a cloud inside to find the objects catalogue. I then found the buildings tab and chose some buildings that I wanted to use. I actually didn't end up using the buildings shown above as I didn't like how they looked.

I ended up choosing this building in the end (I just duplicated it twice to make a "U" shape with them). I thought that this layout would be a bit easier to work with than the previous option that I made.

I added a couple of objects to the area to make it a little more interesting (I added some bins, a bench, a box, and some lamp posts).

I then started making the neon sign, using the text option to add in the text. I wrote the word "welcome" because I wasn't really sure what to write for this. I then used the circle tool and the sweep option to make the 3D tube effect on the text.

I then changed the orientation of the text to have the letters vertical instead of horizontal (I did this by just pressing enter after each letter of the word in the text box/panel). I then changed the colour/options of the sweep that I put on the text to a pink/purple and added a glow effect.

I then played about with the lighting options that Cinema 4D has, adding in lights to change the default options. I also changed the colour of the text from pink to green as I thought it stood out more.

I then added in some more lights and placed them on the lamp posts. I changed the light type to spot so that the light was given out like a real lamp post. I also changed the colour of these lights to an orange because I preferred that to having white light coming from them.

This is what everything looked like before I rendered it. (I realised that I hadn't gotten a close up of the sign since I changed it's colour so that's why there's just a screenshot of that here too).

I then started to render this. I selected Global Illumination, I think this did something to how the lights worked but I can't really remember. It made the lamp posts/the wall behind more visible so it doesn't look like light is coming from nowhere, so that's good.

I then played around with the physical sky options, changing the time of day and weather options. I added some fog to mine and set the time to 6:34 pm and the date to the 14th of November so that the sky was dark.

Annihilation

After watching Annihilation I wrote this movie review:

Story: 7/10

Characters: 6/10

Sets and Designs: 8/10

Sound Design and Music: 8/10

I then went on to write about what I likes/disliked about the film:

I liked the designs of the scenery/the mutated plants, I thought they were pretty to look at. I thought the music choice(s) for the lighthouse scene were very good, building tension and a kind of creepy feeling/atmosphere. I also quite liked the designs of the mutated bear and deer - the bear design was incredibly scary and gory. The deer, on the other hand, were really pretty. The film had completely contrasting elements (i.e: the beautiful flowers/scenery and the scary bear). I think this is quite a cool idea. I did think that the section leading up to the ending was quite strange and a bit too "arty" and didn't make much sense (I personally struggled to understand what was happening).

I then drew these bears:

Making the Backboard for the Legs

I decided to make this backboard/packaging type thing for my deer legs to be displayed in. I used a piece of thin wood for this, sketching out the shape I wanted it to be and marking out where I wanted the holes to be.

I then went into the 3D workshop and used the bandsaw and the disc sander to cut out and sand down the shape and a drill to make the hole at the top. I then went round the edges with some sandpaper to make sure it was smooth. I also used a small hand drill to make the holes for the catgut to go through and hold the legs in place.

I then sprayed it with surface primer so it was ready to paint.

I then mixed up a dark brown and stared painting. I also mixed a lighter brown and used some white to do some dry brushing on it to give it some variation.

I also mixed up some red and brown for a blood colour (not sure why I add blood to everything I make) to add onto the board. I think this makes it seem like the legs are prepared on the board and then sold on it without it being cleaned.

I then started tying the legs onto the board with the catgut stuff, I used some pliers and scissors to cut the catgut so that it would go into the holes that I made. I gave myself a good amount of length on each strand of catgut so that I had enough to tie off with at the end.

I made sure to tie the legs in as tight as I could so that they wouldn't shift too much. I found the catgut relatively easy to work with, granted I wasn't doing anything special with it just tying pieces together. I like how this turned out, it is a bit of a shame that I didn't make all of the legs that I initially planed to but I think it works quite well.

Portal/Gateway Moodboard

I made this (rather small) moodboard for my gateway idea that I plan to make in Cinema 4D. I also decided to sketch out a quick concept for what I want it to look like, using elements from the images that I gathered for the moodboard as references for colours and general shapes (for the door and the trees).

Creating 3D Fonts and Logos

I completely forgot to take screenshots of the process for this task. I downloaded a font from dafont to use for this. I used different layer options to manipulate the text, from the colour of the font to a slight curve to the text. I added a gradient to the text, red to darker red, as well as a slightly darker outline. I duplicated the text layer and changed the colour to be darker than the original and moved it below the original text to give it the 3D look. Additionally, I used an option that added an outline to the text as well as one that added a shadow within the text.

I quite like how this turned out, the cartoony style is really nice and I think the outline makes it look a bit like a sticker/logo.

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