Week 4 - Progression

So I am into week four of my almighty plan and some progression has being made. First of all I have gotten through another bunch of drawings for the week and I have started on another one.

I have dubbed it Alana's 104 Sketching challenge. The Current topic is humans in action. Its all about getting better at drawing for me and hopefully I can at some point draw without having to source a million references and take a few hours to draw a sketch.

As for my 3D studio project I have gotten through a few more models, huzzah. So I finished off the graphics tablet from last week and I am working through getting a stereo done because its not a artists studio without some tunes.

 Okay well that's all I have to update for now. At least the things I can actually show you at the moment. Soon more to come.

Over and Out
Animator Nerd

 

A spectacular update

This week has being a good week of progress. To start with I have worked on multiple drawings and finished quite a few of them. Here are the drawings I have made it through this week. I am pretty happy that I was able to draw them. One thing to note drawing men is hard. Oh and I love to draw clothing with lots of folds, its easy and it looks cool. 

I have started drawing 4 but I haven't finished her that's why proportionately she is looking pretty odd. 

3D wise I had to fix some topology as well as I changed to Maya so I started exporting and referencing files this week. I popped some of the assets I have built so far together into the scene. To see how everything was looking. 

Also my current model I am working on. Its a graphic tablet. Its almost completed just need to add the ports into it and the usb cord and I will be finished. 

  As for website progress I have designed my layout now to design my content now I have go my idea of what I want to do. To build the assets for my site though it is going to take a little bit of time as well as the programming behind it. You won't see it up any time soon, but when it is up I hope that you will be impress. It should come with a heap of new designs and some exciting content. If I can get it my way. 

Oh and hopefully some exciting scripts and animations will be making an appearance in the near to distant future. I won't be showing you the animation or the website until I have made it spectacular. 

Meanwhile I hope I have made you happy with the glimpse into the work I have being able to show you.

Over and out Animator Nerd   

A week's worth of progress

So another week has gone by and it means there is another week worth of work produced. Huzzah!!!

With my 3D project I have got a few different things done. I got through 2 models completely because well I have changed to MAYA!!! previously I was working 3ds max but I decided because of the amount of models it would be a lot easier if I referenced them and textured them in separate files. With the connection with maya and 3ds max it makes it really easy to export but I hadn't used maya in over a year so that changed a lot. I got some simple models done this week and I am putting modelling on hold so I can work on texturing some of them and looking at how its all progressing.

These are only simple models that I done. I have also started work on one that is a little more complex but I haven't finished it yet. It still has a heap of detailing to do.

I have started doing daily sketching again. I am pretty slow at the moment and have only worked on the one drawing so far. I have so much to do I can't dedicate a large sum of time to it but I still think its important so I get a better perspective of form. I am doing it digitally at the moment but I do plan to spend half time digitally and half traditional just to mix it up a little.

 
I still need to get a better idea of structure and form when it comes to organics like people. I am a lot better at working on hard surface.

In other news I have started a lead on two solid ideas for scripts. I just need to see which one I will work on. I have decided that I am going to lay it out to see which is better so create a storyboard for each and think about which one I am more keen on then go from there.

Also Layout of my website is well on the way. I have planned out all the main pages I just need to do some of the other pages and then work out mechanics and design. The design I originally was going to go for was too flat, bold and overpowering compared to the idea in my head. Then when I also started to layout pages my mind swayed with new ideas and more interesting design.

I am hoping to have some textured models done by next week I will have to see how it all goes and how everything pulls together. Texturing is a whole different level to modelling for me something I defiantly need to work on. So I am working my but off to try to get it on the same level of my modelling skills so then I can be a double threat.

Till next time
Over and Out
AnimatorNerd  

Too many things not enough time!!!

So I have finally got the opportunity again to pick up from where I was two months ago. With work and sickness I hadn't really had a lot of time to actually do any work on some of my projects. Oh and I also got slightly distracted by The Witcher 3 well because it is The Witcher 3 and it was totally worth all those hours. Anyway this is the first week where I have being able to do any work or development. So let me tell plus show you what has unfolded me in the last week.

First of all some development on my 3D project. Its being sad how little time I have being able to dedicate to this project as well as how slow I have gotten but I have managed to get a few hours in this week and develop it a little bit more. I also created a long list of all the other props I am going to add. I am crossing them off bit by bit and then adding more. So its a never ending list.

On top of doing some work for that I have started working on more of my website design I am still tossing up on some initial ideas on the actual design of the site but I have started the initial planing stages and will be working on concept later next week. I think I need to do a couple of samples of the design before I solidly go into one direction just to get an idea of how it would flow on the platforms I am using and how the functionality will work with them.

I also started a couple new scripts. The problem with having the time at the moment is that I do crazy things like wake up at 3 in the morning with these crazy ideas for stories and I just need to work on them.So then I spent half the night working on these new scripts. Now I am wanting to work on concept work for them but I don't even have time to produce all these animations. Regardless I currently have lots to work on so I am keeping myself very busy. So busy in fact I have had to set up my own production schedule. To make sure I make some time to work on these different projects going on.

Hopefully I will have a lot more to update you guys with next week.

Over and Out
Animator Nerd