My hard drive is working for both PC and Mac and I have my new phone with a very nice camera, so updates will become weekly from now on unless something happens; if something does I'll update asap.
I'm gonna do this as if I update during the week so, Wednesday is Maya, Thursday is Life Drawing and Theory and Research and Friday is 2D Animation.
So, Maya first!
Honestly, I dont think I can show you much of what's happening during this class as it's a project, but if there is something that I really want you to see then I'll printscreen it.
This week we learnt how to use UV Texturing, so there isn't really anything I can show you on that. I guess you can google it and find some images. Basically, it's a more complex way of putting textures onto polygons. Usually you would place an image on to selected faces and use planner mapping to 'smooth' it out. With UV texturing you can tweak and move the image on certain faces and areas without moving the actual polygon. Sounds complicated, but it's actually quite simple and really helpful.
I also started making my 3D character. I chose to create 'Killer Bunni.' Here are some pictures of my plasticine model which I had to make:
Last week, I created a 'dinosaur' and animated it from scratch without rigging it. Here is a quick video of how it turned out:
Next comes Thursday, with Life Drawing and Theory and Research.
A quick note about Theory and Research, I have to do a separate blog that contains only information from that lesson so I'm not gonna update about that here anymore. If anything, I'll update that too and post a link here for you to read, but it can be a bit boring...
Here's the link: http://abbytheoryandresearch.blogspot.com/2011/10/week-1-and-2-early-history-blogging-and.html
This weeks Life Drawing will have both last and this weeks. I'll still choose the best pieces to put up each week; I do quite a lot of drawings, so it'll be a bit much to put them all up.
Week 1's drawings:
This one I like the body but the face is a bit funny, then again, I was using a bamboo stick to draw this...
This one was done in ten minutes which is actually really short; the time goes really quick, but I done like the proportion in this.
The first part of Week 2's life drawing was a bit hard, especially since I was in a difficult position to draw...meaning I had a huge pillar in the way... but during the 2nd half I got to move and we did speedy 30 second drawings, they're so much easier and actually look a lot better!
Week 2's drawings:
This one was about 30 minutes. Anyone who does drawing will understand that, sometime, the more time you have, can make it more difficult as you're concentrating too much, but I do quite like this one,
These two I really enjoyed doing; you have about 30 seconds for each pose and it's a really great way to get proportion and the whole figure on the page.
Finally, 2D animation. I really like this class. Sometimes it's a little slow, but the work is fun and it's a great way to finish off the week with such a relaxing class. This week we had to create an animation of a moving flower that flowed side to side. Bad news is, I thought I saved it on my hard drive but it's saved as a different format, so I'll upload it next week for you.
That's all for now folks.
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