Week 06 Game Res/First Bake

 This week we were tasked with having game res completed as well as a first bake when it came to our Nerf guns. However, as mentioned last week , I ended up having to play catch up this week as I did not get much accomplished last week. As such I continued to work my high resolution model of my gun. I was able to get a lot accomplished this week, but at the same time, I realized the work load was split into parts for a reason. I still have 10% of the high res left involving the rest of the back spring as well as bringing over the model over to Zbrush for polish. 

I did realize allocating time to focus on 3D class helps a lot as I don't have to worry about other tasks during the allotted time. However with this week, capstone vertical slice was coming up, so I had dedicated more of the weekdays towards my team. This week will be more lax when it comes to capstone and as I such my work schedule will allow for more time to work on my nerf gun. Below I have outline my plan of attack as far as scheduling goes with working on 3D art:

Tuesday: 5 - 7 PM (complete back spring)

Wednesday: 6 - 10 AM (complete Zbrush polish and begin game res)

Thursday: 5 - 7 PM (continue working on game res)

Friday: 6 - 10 AM, 3 - 7 PM(finish game res and UVs)

Saturday: 8 - 12 PM (bakes and begin texturing)

Sunday: 8 - 12 PM (continue texturing)

Monday: 8 - 12 PM (final touchups and renders)

Outside of completing the assignment, I want to have the nerf gun presentable as one of my pieces for vertical slice.

Progress so far: 

Week 05 Nerf Gun High Res Cont.

 This week's 3D art assignment involved continuing the high resolution model of the Nerf Striker gun. However, due to poor planning on my part with capstone tasks, I ended up not able to get time to work on the model this week as much. I did say I would spare some time last week but was not able to. Below I have outlined a way for me to get back on track while still maintaining my obligations for Capstone, Gamelab, and VR.

Next week revolves around me needing to complete the game res and UV and as such I have to catch up by getting my high resolution finished by Friday. I will do that by dedicating proper hours each day to this assignment where I will work on it and only work on this assignment as my issue right now is tunnel visioning assignments where once I am focused on one I keep my attention on that assignment. It's a pretty bad habit especially when you want to get something done absolutely right. As such I will make sure to have at least 3 hours today, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to focus on this Nerf Gun and the accompanying videos. As for my other assignments and classes, I will make sure to do the same with setting a set number of hours of work time so I don't fall into focusing on one class too much. It'll be rough for the next few days, but I have to do it to catch back up.

Personal Project - 3D Coat/Hand-painted Textures/Pizza Chicken Ward

 

During this week's one on one session with Nick Zuccarello, we continued to go over personal projects for me to work on outside of class. After discussing why I liked this concept below from Riot Game's League of Legends, with how I liked the hand-painted aesthetic when it came to 3D art, I was given the OK to start messing around in with 3DCoat and if I am familiar enough with it at the basic level, I can go use 3Dcoat instead when it comes time to do the character modeling in the later half of this semester for 3D Art II.

Concept by Steve Zheng

For the following few weeks, I will begin looking at basic tutorials for 3DCoat as well as practice handpainting out the pizza part of the chicken concept above.

Week 04 - Nerf Gun Proxy and Beginning of High Res

 For this week in 3D Art, we were tasked with proxying the Nerf gun shown below. To supplement the assignment, we were given videos to follow along to help. Working on my capstone ended up messing up my time spent on this assignment and I will need to catch up this week when it comes to proxying the rest of the model.

Nerf gun reference used

Shots of what I have so far on the proxies

Smooth mesh preview of what I have so far

VR Project Sprint 2 Deliverable

 For this sprint of the VR project, we have began asset creation. Per our art lead Vanna, we were assigned a due date of February 4th to have proxies in for major assets needed for our experience. Below I have images of references used to create the candy tin and umbrella.

Reference images used for proxy art

Proxies of candy tin and umbrella inside of Maya

Week 03 - Knife Final

Texture reference