Week 11 - High Res Meshing - 'C' Stage

 Showcase Blueprint

 Interaction Blueprint

Floor Material & Fancy Pillar

 Witch Character Sculpt

Week 11 - Classes

Final Product

Final Product

Trouble shooting

Overall I started to understand classes and how their structure worked after a few failed attempts using the base code strucutre I had used previously, its part of the process for me. However the difficulty of the assignment was largely based on how to nest the objects, in what order, and with how many functions I needed to get things to work properly. A lot of functions rely on other functions in a complex webbing that was hard to really understand, even while I was working my way through it.

Perforce

Audry 2 Pumpkin Printing - Halloween Special

 Viewport of Lychee Slicer
Estimated: Print time 6 hours 30 minutes / Actual: 7 hourts 20 minutes

Unoptimized versus optimized slicing

Work in Progress Images

Final Prints

Week 11 - Assignment Cannon Project - High Poly Sculpt

Beauty Shots

Reference

Known Critique

I sent a slightly earlier WIP to some other 3D modelers for critique. Majority of it revolved around where the large cracks in the barrel of the cannon and how they didnt make sense for their location.

There are certain cracks that either I think don't make sense or just should be more defined. I think they need to be smaller, thinner, or deeper - but currently they're like a weird in-between that just looks a tad strange.

Also, I don't know what it is but the perimeter area just looks a bit off to me. IDK if it's a separate subtool, but the transition from one to another just looks strange 

I'd also think about 

1. where the wear would be realistically happening during the formation or creation of the object
2. where the object is typically resting
3. realistically where the object would be hit by something, and the severity that it would be hit by something. 

Origionally, I followed along with the reference, but given the critique I will most likely smooth them out in the next step and adjust the cracks to stick closer to the metal straps.

Extra

Houdini Workshop #1 & #2

These workshops are all about learning the basics of houdini, user interface, basic node set up, and how geometry interacts - the program is suprisingly easy to pickup after knowledge in Substance Designer and Unreal Engine. 

Unreal Engine / Houdini

Material Network

Week 10 - Initial Block Out - 'D' Stage

Witch Player Model

Maya Wireframe / Zbrush Sculpt / Substance Texture / Reference

Lion Enemy Model & Rig

Zbrush Sculpt / Maya Rig

Perforce

Week 10 - Functions & Data Types

 Final

Prompting

Base Number / Depth Level

Troubleshooting

A lot of the problems I had in this assignment were largely the mixed language of the assignment page, utilizing 'soldiers'/'units' instead of descriptors as well as my general lack of understanding when it comes to tuples. I think I have a general understanding of how they work after this project, but I dont see much immediate use for them outside of 'nice to have's in terms of project utility.

A specific problem I had was a lack of understanding in how to create a double nested tuple and where to apply the colour/randomize shape nodes. I think this general code works for it's purpose but can be streamlined later on.

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