Texture project

Just a update on the texture project for easter, I haven't added normal maps for either of these as I don't have crazy bump on my computer. I think this pratice has improved my texturing a bit, although I still find it difficult to pack the uvws close together.

 

woman texture project renders

 Woman texture project textures 512x512

Man texture project renders

Man texture project textures 512x512

Summer project part 2

Just a quick update on the summer project, I've completed the diver reseach as well as the paint overs of the final concepts. I've now got the layout of the scene to do and then the othographical drawings of all the assests. Then I can begin modeling. I'm really looking forward to making this, it looks like its going to be a lot of fun.

 

diver research

 

 final environment concept

Final diver concept

Organic Character Project

For my organic character project, I started off with the idea that my character would be based on a mythical creature. I had read about the vegetable lamb of Tartary, a mythical creature which was meant to be a goat that grew out of a fern. It actually turned out that reports of this creature where actually a variety of fern that grew in the forest.

 ' The vegetable lamb was believed to have blood, bones, and flesh like that of a normal lamb. It was connected to the earth by a stem similar to an umbilical cord that propped the lamb up above ground. The cord could flex downward allowing the lamb to feed on the grass and plants surrounding it. Once the plants within reach were eaten, the lamb died' - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_Lamb_of_Tartary)

To start off with, I collected reference of ferns. I then drew out some sketches of them.

 Research sketches for organic character

After that, I began to develop my character. I had the idea to make the character a lot more human, but with elements of the original mythical creature. I sketched out some different ideas.

 Development of ideas for organic character

I then produced an orthographical view of the final design, created from elements that I liked in the design stage.

 Final design of organic character

Then I sketched out my composition for the final piece in pencils.

 final piece pencils

After a few alterations, I started to paint my final piece in Photoshop.

 Final piece work in progress

And this is my final piece for the project.

Bradgate Park

For the next of our tasks for visual design, we had to return to Bradgate park to do some drawing. I decided to go on the Wednesday, as I usually try to get all my work done for visual design each week by Friday. However, it was really rainy, and I didn't get too much done. I've been lucky so far this year, and this is the first time I've been rained on while drawing; it's really difficult to draw with pencil on wet paper, and my sketchbook has fallen apart. However, it lucky only had a few pages left in it, and nothing inside has been ruined. Good news thought was that I got the sketches done, and I got the right bus ( I was really worried I'd get lost)

Here are the sketches I produced. I went over and painted them in ink once I got back, as the sketches needed more work and I liked the effect of the ink paintings I did on the last project.

Bradgate sketches

I think, although these were a bit more rushed than the previous ones I produced when going to bradgate, that these sketches came out better

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I then chose the sketch I liked most then redrew it on Photoshop. I then painted it in the program to produce my final for this project. I added the dear to give a focal point to the painting.

Work in progress of Bradgate park final

This is my final piece I produced. I think I've made a lot of improvement in my digital painting since my painting on the previous project:

Final piece for Bradgate park project

Summer project part 1

Started doing some concept and research for one of my summer project. I started when we were waiting for our assessments, even though it is a little early, this project looked quite fun to do. I've chosen to do the seabed project first, as I found the idea interesting. If I finish this one, I will start on another one, as I really need to improve by the second year, in all areas of the course. I'm also going to be doing updates on my progress in this blog.

 Looking through the reference folders, I thought this looked like a good project to do. I looked for some more reference online to add to the reference provided,  and then did some research sketches of sunken ships and fish. These I then used to create thumbnails of possibilities for my scene, then the final idea.

I'm going to paint over this in Photoshop to give a better idea of what it should look like in the final product. I'm also currently working on the layout plan of the scene.

 

 In my finished scene, I want there to be a ship wreck, a diver, a few different types of fish, some rocks and some seaweed. I'm not sure how this will fit into my budget yet, but I'm using this research to create a plan of the layout of the scene and just get a general idea of how my final scene is going to look. I've also yet to do diver research, but I should have those completed soon. After this, the next step would to be to produce orthographical drawings of all the objects that will be in my final scene. I also need to think up my budgets for each of these objects