Sketch Battle ~ Dave and Ben

It begins


Ben's reply


My reply

Drawn by myself and Benjamin Drake

The force is strong with this one.

Modelling Jaz - Part 05 - Nearly Done

Front view of Jaz - Smoothed preview on left, low-polygon almost-done rendition on right

Perspective View of both low-poly and high-poly model

Side view

Modelling Jaz - Part 04 - The Body

Jaz, complete with shirt, pants and shoes (half

Side View

Next is lofting the arm and tail.

Modelling Jaz - part 03 - The Head

Jaz - Front

Jaz - Side

Jaz - perspective view (including Sub Proxy model)

Modelling Jaz - part 02

Model sheet of Jaz

Modelling Jaz - part 01

For the last assessment for CGI Modelling, I will be making Jaz, the main character to my series concept.

Revealed this drawing (and a few others) to Darren last Tuesday and he was happy overall with the design, since he's fairly animation-friendly already.

A consideration is the clothes, which are intended to be baggy. My choices are either to model him without clothes (nude rig, not anatomically nude) with the intention of adding cloth simulation later, or design the clothes to be more rigid.

I may go with the latter. I can always build another rig of Jaz, should I want to add cloth simulation, which would be interesting.

Hunter ~ Modeled and Textured

Done!
At least, I hope its' done. Done enough, I guess.


The Hunter - modelled and textured...not very well, but not bad for a first try.


3rd Person view


Close up


Another view

Background modelling and texturing was done by my group member, Jessie.

Second Opinion

Ok, Maya doesn't suck....too much.


Sketches from today's class on rigging. We had a model to demonstrate....so it's the first chance I've had at life drawing this year.

Talked with Darren about the Hunter model and he showed me again how to properly UV texture. I felt more confident this time, and following his demonstration, I was able to fully unwrap the model, ready for Photoshop texturing.

I was originally angry and frustrated cause of how complex UV texturing was. Despite having a lesson on the subject, I was unable to follow Darren's "quick-guide-to-UV-texturing-over-four-hours" and missed many steps that left me bewildered.

I'm quite grateful to Darren for taking the time to show me the process again.

So, Maya doesn't suck....completely.



Wall-E, Jaz and Eve

Edit 17th Sept

Textured face ~ Freaky eyes