3D Class Week 07 Bake Maps and Digital Painting for a Prop

For this week's 3D homework we had to grab a proxy cannon mesh that was given to us, bake a highpoly mesh unto it and add  textures of wear and tear in Substance Painter. This was a very fun project and it took about 3 hours to complete.

2D Class Week 08 Artist Discovery

This week we split into teams in class to rework The Wizard of Oz using Tim Burton as inspiration for the style. In the team I am in, we are going to be looking at the Tin Man and redesigning him. So in the next few days/weeks we will be doing some research and posting it on the blog. Then we will put it all together with the other teams who have, The Witch (includes the flying monkeys), The Scarecrow, and The Lion.

I gathered some images, put them on pinterest and also did some research into Timburton and Don't Starve

I also researched animation styles and facial animations for the Tinman

My team members are:
-Leah Augustine
-Boo Roseman
-Kay Ghering
-Yanjun Chen
-Connor Hollis

2D Class Week 07 Basic Lighting

This week we look into basic three point lighting, we set up a reference photograph image of an object of our choosing and then we go into photoshop and replicate it the best we can.

2D Class Week 06 Value

This week we were given a black and white image that was linework only. We were to bring it into photoshop and give it some value with black and white only.

Total time was about 3 hours

3D Class Week 06 UV and Digital Sculpting for a Prop

Hello all, For this week's assignment we were to UV a proxy cannon and then turn it from a low-res mesh to a high-res mesh in Maya and then export that asset as an OBJ in order to detail it in ZBrush. After UVing, I added some edges using the multicut tool in Maya in order to give some of the edges more support so that the pieces would hold their form in smooth preview. Then I exported the file as an OBJ and brought it into ZBrush where I added details using mainly the Dam_Brush and the stamp with a custom alpha channel. After all of that I was able to Decimate the cannon and bring it down from 36 mil polys to around 4 mil. Lastly I exported the Cannon as an OBJ again after decimation.

Cannon after detailing in ZBrush

Cannon After Decimation

2D Class Week 05 Silhouettes

For this week's assignment we created Silhouettes of either characters, environment or weapons. I chose to do characters, so I created 9 variations of a warrior type character who often wields a close ranged weapon.

This is the Handout provided by Nick Zuccarello

The total time on this assignment was about 1.5 hours.

3D Class Week 05 Modeling A Prop

For this week's assignment, we were to model a proxy prop cannon for a video game in Maya and export it to Unreal. We were to stay under 1000 tris  which I manage to do 876 total tris. Also, the project took me a total of 2 hours with lighting and everything, plus watching the tutrial video.