Vienna Pt. 1

Hurrah, I finally started modeling Vienna!  Yay! 

So, I decided to rough in the body first.  I got this far, mind you I just need to duplicate the body and attach it and a good chunk of the body model is done.  Just the hands, and face.  I'm leaving the boots alone for now as I'll just model them directly on her feet. The first image is what I have for a mesh so far.  The second image is the same mesh, just smoothed. 

I hope to have either the head or hands done soon too.  Actually, it'd be nice to have her done before the 27th.  Fat chance though.  I'll just sacrifice sleep.  And Pokemon.....That's a great start right there.

In other news, I have a colored dinosnare.  I should be finished the assignment soon, just awaiting further instructions.  Until there, my dinosnare (yes I spelled it that way on purpose).

And this is my dino.

It took much effort, a complete re-install of Maya and almost beating the first gym of Pokemon Yellow to get my lighting done.  But at least he looks good.  By the end of the week I should have the materials modified and final touch ups completed.  I shall update again when that is done. 

Concepting Madness Part 2!!!

Okay, I don't want my computer to freeze up while lighting my dinosaur just yet, so I'll finish my postings early today.....so I don't forget.  Besides the basic turntable of my character, I decided to do an action pose as well.  I decided on my pose already, and gave her a sword.  So where is she going to be fighting.....and WHO??  My original idea for this studio project was to make a short animation about a lizard, so I had some rough pencil sketches of the cute little guy.  I made him meaner, stronger and removed the little bow from his forehead.  HIS NAME IS ELIZABETH!!  I'd be angry too if I was named Karl instead....better yet let's just name him Karl.

Karl won't be rigged, I'll just pose him.  He won't be moving around too much.  It's a static action pose for djfkajdfhalk.   Okay next topic. Where is this fight gonna take place?  Well Vienna's fighting a lizard, kinda Roman.....lets make a a roman courtyard like place.  This is going to kill me.  I've always sucked major monkey balls at environments; drawing and modeling them.  So if I don't bash in my head modeling everything else in this project, and texturing it, this will do it!  I know this concept is super weak, but it's really not going to get any better.  I'll use this as reference and make it up as I go.

I noticed that it would be near impossible to model headphone from what I had drawn, that was my next target.  I used reference photos from Skull candy, as I have a pair of the Tokidoki Agents headphones and I can resort to using them as reference as well.  They're very similar, I know, but headphone are headphones no matter how you look at them.

Now back to Pokemon yellow.....er  I mean lighting my dinosaur scene.  My Banana Splits is now at level 7 guys!!  :'D

So much for keeping updates....

The evil monster known as concepting has been defeated!!  It only cost my my right hand (seriously) and a few head wall bashing's.  MUHAHAHAHA!!  In all reality I finished all the concepting for my studio project today.  There's a bit too much work to cover in one post, so I shall start with my main character today, and the rest of it tomorrow!!  I SWEAR!!!

I began concepting last Saturday (Sept 4th, 11) by just sketching some rough ideas on paper.  I drew out one girl (I wanted to do a female character) and decided to switch to a digital medium so I didn't have to sketch out the body EVERY TIME!  Once Photoshop decided to open, I sketched out a body and face and drew a bunch of different hair styles, a few tops and some bottoms.  All were done on separate layers so I could turn them on and off to compare them and see how they worked together.  After selecting my preferred combination, I quickly drew up a rough sketch to complete the day. 

As seen above, I scanned in my one drawing done on paper to add it to the rest of my ideas.  I liked the skirt and black jacket the moment I drew them and decided to proceed.  Here's a better look at my really rough character.

Now I got SUPER side tracked last week.  Between my 3D dinosaur and other school assignments, I didn't work on my studio project very much.  I began working on it again a week later (Sept 10th :'(  ) and began to draw her out in greater detail.  I wanted her to have attitude, but still look pretty.  Her bandana and hair stayed the same but the shoes were turned into boots, her arm bandages/bracelets were modified and more detail went into the jacket and under shirt.  The socks were discarded (actually I just forgot to draw them in and was too far along on the next few stages to go back and draw them in) along with her feather key chain, however I added headphones, a sword and a cigarette or lollipop.  I'm thinking lollipop, just for the fun of it.

With her done, I took a break from her to work on the rest of the objects/environment that will be in the scene.  I drew up the action pose, and finished her turnaround on Sunday and today.  Her action pose is just a wuick look at what I'd like her to look like in, you'll never guess, THE ACTION POSE!! A few more minor changes in the final turnaround of her.  (I've decided to name her Vienna and she shall be referenced to as that for now on!)

Vienna is now complete and ready for modeling.

Tomorrow I shall update you all on the rest of my project, along with DINOSAURS!! 

On a side note, while I was waiting for the pictures to upload, I began playing Pokemon Yellow.  I am Sephi, my rival is Cloud, and all my Pokemon are named after food items.  See if you can guess which Pokemon I have captured since I started this post; Giga Puddi, Velveeta (Cheese), Doritos, B(anana) Splits and Spearmint.

A Way to Keep Track of Progress......

Never blogged before, cause I really don't see why anyone would want to read my nonsense.  However, due to a certain term long project, I think it's about time to start.  Actually, I'm just avoiding working on said project right now....hurrmmm......


SOOOOO, we have 15, er now 14, weeks to set up and complete a project of our choosing.  After the 14 weeks are up, the school invites people working in the industry to view our work and critic us.  As if I wasn't pooping my pant enough as it is.  I chose to create my own chatacter and model it.  Not to difficult right, except the part where I've never attempted anything like it.  So this project is either going to be really smooth and things will get done in a timely fashion, OR (this is more likely the case) I shall fight my way through the whole process and loose half my hair by the end of the day.  EXCELLENT!!

I shall use here to track my progress.  Tomorrow I shall update with pics of what I have accomplished so far.  Which is near nothing. OH WAIT, I did finish the proposal I have to write up about it.  Hey, it's a start.  It's only been 5 days since we got the project, so I think I'm good.

In other news, I shall also comment about my progress in my other courses in school.  My 3D course is going well, I get to model my favorite creature, a DINO!!!  

I swear he will have a head soon, I hope.  Back to my dino. :D