This past month my class was entitled Game Portfolio 1. It was very similiar to the class from last month, however this month I decided to model out a korean pagoda from the Gyeongju temple. I believe that the tower is the Dabo Tower, and that it is even featured on some of their currency, […]
January This past January I had a class entitled Advanced Game Characters, where our focus was on modelling/sculpting out several of the different pieces necessary to create a current gen character asset. I had a lot of fun with this class, and did most of the work in zBrush. I’d like to continue working with
Wow, it has been a little while since my last update and there’s a lot that I’d like to post on here. I keep meaning to be more regular with my updates, but I find it so easy to get lost in my work. In this post, I’ll try to summarize what I have been
For the month of July my school class was Art Creation for Games, and we worked through the process of crafting and then implementing a a small map in the unreal engine. So the map was created in the unreal engine, but the assets that I used were all created by me inside Maya
So this month in my schooling I am working through Character Rigging 1. and for this month I am building a rig for one of several pre-built characters. I will be creating and developing the skeleton, rig, controls and blend shapes available to the animator, which will be me. I chose to work with Dr.
Here is my final upload for the Merlin’s ball and Box project I was working on for FOA-O. I was called into to work today so unfortunately I didn’t have time or the opportunity to implement some of the final effects and passes that I was hoping for on this project. This playblast is my last pass
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Here is my fourth pass, on my Merlin ‘s box and ball animation, I’ve converted all my relevant tangent’s to a more appropriate type depending on their purpose. I’ve gone through and tweaked a whole bunch of the curves. I’ve also attempted to deal with the points that were brought up in the previous critiques.
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Here is my fourth entry for the Merlin’s ball and box project. I ran into some weird bugs with my playblast, and I sorted through most of them, but my resolution gate has vanished on the playblast. I built the animation to be viewed a little bit closer up, and the problem with the resolution gate
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For this post my goal was to take my existing “thumbnail” animation and convert it over to a linear animation. This turned out to be a great opportunity to rework all of my timings and to begin exploring how the animation might play out in a more straight ahead manner compared to the pose to
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As part of my Merlin’s Ball animation, I really wanted to add some torches to the wall and possibly even animate the torches catching some other stuff on fire. So I went to see if lynda.com had any training for fire and sure enough they did. This is the first project that I worked on
