#3danimation&games

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Workshop 4: Character in Situ 

Project Collaboration with: Vanessa Andrade  (Tumblr: vanmdx) Programs used 🎥 : ZBRUSH & Autodesk Maya (render)

   This 1 week project was just wonderful. A bit stressful but amazing in my opinion. We were given 2 references, a character and a piece of environment, to work with. These references were really generic, at least for the environment.. mine was literally a weird looking degraded rock you can find in your garden outside but somehow i kind of saw a thing that seemed to be a fossil in the rock (call it a super sleepy and tired mirage) so i thought about developing this ultra rocky but with a touch of carved beauty.         To match Vanessa concept, which looked religious, i sketched a fallen church or temple environment. Truth is! Both character and environment matched so perfectly!!!!!! We are so proud of our result honestly!!!    Personally this project helped me a lot. Going back to ZBrush and create this whole environment was not easy task. I blocked the environment in Maya first and then moved to ZBrush to do the details. I never got so tired of modeling rocks in my life hahaha. But it was great! As I learned how to use different brushes and how to switch correctly from one to the other to create this rock effect.  The leaves were after created in Maya as well and duplicated a hundred times haha.      Also I started realizing how much modeling and sketching environments fits with my personality. Even though this project was a bit hard as in having only 1 week to make it, I think I wouldn’t come up with any better results if I had more time and I wouldn’t have gotten so passionate about it. 

Íris 🌸

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Core Project 5: VR “3x3″: Assets Sheet

Project Collaboration with: Vanessa Andrade (Tumblr: vanmdx) 

Asset sheet!! yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!! 

    We divided our room in 3 areas as you can see in the asset sheet.      We will go for a simple lowpoly style, as colorful as it can be and try to play with the lights as much as we can to give a warm calm feeling in the end.     Íris 🌸

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Core Project 5: VR “3x3″: Assets Concepts, Room concept, Silhouettes & Mood Board.

Project Collaboration with: Vanessa Andrade (Tumblr: vanmdx) Programs used 🎥 : Webchemy & Photoshop  Me and Vanessa finished our concepts and Asset List (next post) for our project.

We researched some references and read about the Thai culture so every asset we have and the way we want to represent our final work will be as truthful as possible to the culture we want to depict. 

Íris 🌸

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Workshop 3: Artist Garden Screenshots

Artist: Kris Kuksi Paired up with: Gonçalo Bastos Game-Engine: Unity     This week we had to use an artist work to create a game map. For the first time i was introduced to unity as a tool to create a game and not to play one and it was challenging but I enjoyed using it, because it’s such a not so complex engine to work with and it gives many opportunities and ways of developing creativity.       At first, when we searched the artist work we didn’t come up with any idea except making a floating garden and then we chose a main sculpture to base the work on and that’s the bottom picture you see.  So me and Gonçalo started modeling everything and then we looked at the artist’s statues and they had all the same pallet and were really detailed, so we came up with the idea to reverse all that. Make the garden as low polly as possible, even the little plants we painted on Photoshop an imported to Unity are pixelated. And beyond this, create this crazy pallet with strong colors and make cactus work as piercing in the cow. We also added some meditation music as the scenario looks kind of relaxing in my opinion.      Then, I don’t know why but we thought about adding a toon shader which unity already has and we loved how smooth and appealing the scenario looked. We put strong outlines and messed up with the effects in the end the result was astonishing and very different from what we visualized in the beginning, because we had a clue of what could be the end product but we decided to experiment and not to follow a fixed idea, as we didn’t even have much time to elaborate one.      We didn’t find any issues and the teamwork between us 2 was amazing! We both got to create a bit of everything and not just one doing the models while the other doing colors, for example. So we both tried everything that was shown to us and we gladly used as much as we could. We had some issues putting the platforms, because we had to test every single platform and even so we didn’t manage to get all of them in good positions. Rather than that and probably making some more islands that could make the player see the cow just like we show in these screenshots, I think everything went really well and I hope we can do more projects in Unity because I had really so much fun doing it!  Cheers, Íris 🌸

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Core Project 3: Music Box Modelling and UV Mapping

Theme: Abandoned subterranean Edwardian Toy Factory

Hard-Edged Object: Music Box

        Here is the modelling of my hard-edged object in Autodesk Maya which was  then exported to ZBrush in order to add some details for the later baking process in Substance Painter.          The UV Mapping of this object was quite simple. I separated the Rose UV from the rest of the box and assigned a different material to it so substance painter will separate the objects and texturing will be easier.   For the small pieces in the box, I modeled one and then duplicated it, but then I had to delete all of them, because it’s easier if I UV only one and then duplicate it with the UV already done. This way the UV tile won’t be so saturated with shells, as the similar ones are overlapping and I can definitely make sure everything fits inside the same square. Then I checked the UV grid and everything seemed homogeneous so hurray!      Also, I was able to detect some Ngons in the UV which I took care of immediately. Íris 🌸

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Core Project 3: Concept Designs (part 3)

Theme: Abandoned subterranean Edwardian Toy Factory

Organic object: Teddy Bear

Field Research Photography: V&A Childhood Museum + home  Webchemy silhouette    For this object the research and concept was as simple as possible. I used my teddy bear to make the basic shape and then added the patches from the clown plush reference picture I took in the museum. Then in the design I tried to add a worn off, abandoned look to the toy.    The second silhouette was an experiment I didn’t like because I wanted a specific angle that made the toy look less happy and perhaps more expressive. Íris 🌸

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Core Project 3: Concept Designs (part 2)

Theme: Abandoned subterranean Edwardian Toy Factory Hard-Edged Object: Music Box

   After going to the V&A Childhood Museum for some photography research and looking at home for some old objects I have, the final concept for the Hard Surface object was this Music Box.     I picked some references from each object and when I got to the last part which was the rose, I was not actually sure of what I should draw, but someone said in the Webchemy silhouette it looked like a rose, so I remembered the rose from Beauty and The Beast (Disney) and used it as my reference.     The wood texture was due to the fact that in the Edwardian era most toys were made out of this material and there is no specific reference rather than the train picture in part 1 perhaps. Íris 🌸

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Core Project 3: Concept Designs (part 1)

Theme: Abandoned subterranean Edwardian Toy Factory.

Field Research Photography on V&A Childhood Museum.  Webchemy silhouettes. These were the first 2 objects i decided to work on. The first one (Hard-edge object)  is a simple old train toy. I found some old Edwardian era toys and most of them were made of wood and this one was more appealing as it’s naturally old and scratched.  The design was an experiment as I didn’t know which hard surface object I wanted to choose.  The rocking horse was another object that I sound appealing, not only because I love horses but also because of how naturally old it looked and the overall shape looks very interesting. I thought about modeling this one as my organic-edge object but it looks more hard surface than organic and in the end I didn’t draw its design. Íris 🌸