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another model I’ve been working on today for my ~mystical~ swamp forest environment that I’m creating for my end of year showreel 🌿🔮

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Hey frens, I’ve been absent again this week because it’s the first week back of term 2 and once again I’m swamped with tafe work 😅 I’ve mostly been working on models for my end of year showreel (had to do a presentation on it yesterday) for which I’m building an exotic fantasy desert city. This model is the central building in the city, an observatory. The model is far from finished but I’ve been experimenting with some textures - these aren’t the final textures, but I’m kinda happy with some of them so far! 😊

The first half of my week is always busy during term time but I’m hoping to get some time to catch up on posts and play around in Dynastia over the weekend. 😊 Thanks for all the lovely comments on my posts lately, I know I haven’t been replying much for a while but I always love hearing what you guys think about my story! 🥰

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sorry I’ve been away for a while! It’s looking like I’m not gonna be able to do tumblr things mon-fri during term time, cos I’m flat out with work... 3rd year is tough 😓 Looking forward to the weekend when I’ll get some simming and tumblr time in!

I’ve been working on this model for my showreel this week (due at the end of the year, but I plan on building a lot of stuff for it 😅). It’s an orrery, which is a mechanical astronomy machine. I’m only half finished with modelling it but I couldn’t resist trying to make this sun glow 😄 

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Hello frens! I’ve finally finished TAFE for the year, and you know what that means? I’m on my summer break until February next year! so I finally have time for tumblr and sims again! 💃🥳🍹✨ I’ve missed so many peoples here and I’m so glad to finally be back~ 🥰 I’ve missed a LOT so I might not be able to catch up on everything, but I’ll be back in your notes soon! 😁💗

Working on Winter Echo made it difficult for me to keep up with TAFE as well as I wanted to in first semester this year, so after I finished the story I decided to take a break from both tumblr and sims and throw myself entirely into my studies. I had some great results from this and learned a ton, and I’m excited to use my new skills to make stuff for sims! xD

Under the cut ~ my major project works for this semester 😊

Rendering & Lighting

For this final assessment, we had to light and texture a fruit bowl matching a photo reference we were given. I find lighting relaxing but it takes a very long time to get right (especially trying to match a reference). I’m pretty happy with how these textures turned out, they also took a really really long time to perfect. The apple and bananas were textured in Substance Painter and the grapes, orange and basket were procedurally textured in Maya. I think those grapes took me two full days to get right 😅 (the pear and table aren’t textured, we weren’t actually supposed to texture this many fruits, which I found out far too late lol)

Animation

Our last animation assessment for the year was to animate a character jumping. A lot harder than it appears 😅 I also modelled, textured and lit this scene for it and I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve modelled/textured so far 😄 I’m very excited with how much my skills with 3D animation have improved over this semester! definitely an elective I’ll be taking for 3rd year 😊

Compositing

So I really think compositing is super fun, as you might have guessed by the amount of compositing I do for my sims shots xD For our final assessment for this class, we were given an animated spaceship (modelled and textured in Maya by our teacher) and had to composite it into an animated background scene of our choice using Nuke. Nuke is a very complex program, kinda like uber-Photoshop 😅 This very short shot took a ridiculous amount of time to create and I’m still not 100% happy with it but at some point you just gotta submit the thing, lol 😆

Production Studio

My major major project of this semester 😆 This was a group project that challenged us to use all our skills from our other classes. The brief was to model cars of the future, based on cars from the 50s, and they had to light up, talk, and fly 👀😬 I did have a lot of fun with this over the semester and I’m really happy with the final result, although there was quite a lot of drama with one member of our group who caused us a lot of troubles. 😅 The final renders for the film took such a long time that we had to get a full on render farm going over a weekend with multiple people rendering out different shots, and even then we had to render at fairly low quality to get it done. Very eye opening for the amount of time it must take to render out a full 3D animated film 👀

Thanks for taking a look at my work if you’ve gotten this far! 💗 I’m super excited to use all these new skills to create some cool stuff over my break for sims! Starting with a proper airport set... I got big plans 😁

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been working on modelling and texturing some swampy things today 😄

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Hey frens! I’m at the end of another super busy week of tafe, yay weekend! I’ve been working on my animation for my Winter Echo epilogue a little, but I finally have some time this weekend to really get into it 😄

Here’s some of my tafe work I’ve done over the last few weeks! The top image is a lighting exercise (I didn’t model the scene, just lit it), the second image is a still from my animation assignment (I built the scene for it and modelled/textured some things, and animated a bouncing ball) and the last image is a spiderweb I learnt how to make in class thismorning 😁

I hope everyone’s doing okay, and ima catch up with your blogs over the weekend! 💗

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just a quick update to let you guys know that I’m still super busy with tafe work, at the moment specifically with modelling this flying car I’ve designed 🚀

but! I made some major progress with my Winter Echo epilogue over the weekend! I managed to create several animations for it plus a custom accessory that I modelled myself, which I’m super excited about! I can’t wait until tafe calms down and I can get more time to work on it! only 2 weeks left to go til my mid-semester break~ 😊