End of week assignment - Compositing 01

This week our assignment was to use our render passes from last week in Nuke and put them together and tweak the picture.

My timetable for the week was planned like this:

Monday 14-16: Watch tutorials and learn the basics of Nuke.
Tuesday 14-17: Play around with Nuke and figure out how the different nodes work.
Wednesday 14-19: Start working on my render passes and try to make it look like my beautypass.
Thursday 14-20: Add more effects like depth of field, lens flare and bloom.

Drawing

This week we drew thumbnails and made larger versions with more detail after that.

Idea Development

Since I already had a basic idea down, I wanted to look at ideas for effects to add to the beauty pass. I really liked this picture of the lens flare, and decided to use as reference when adding to my own image.

Final Image

End of week assignment - Lighting & Render 03

This week our assignment was to light the vehicle, and then do render passes we will be using in next weeks assignment.

My timetable for the week was planned like this:

Monday 14-16: Find a nice background to base the lighting off of, and place the vehicle accordingly.
Tuesday 14-17: Keep playing around with different placements and see what works best and decide!
Wednesday 14-19: Place the lighting in the scene and make it fit according to the background image and make it look nice on the model.
Thursday 14-20: Start doing render passes and work on getting them to look nice.

Drawing

This week we also drew a fair bit, and we focused a lot on shapes and different techniques again.

Idea Development

For this assignment I wanted to show my vehicle off as it is flying through the air and decided on a sky background. I looked around for reference images, and as expected there aren't many pictures of flying row-boats with cannons mounted on the front! I then widened my search to planes in the sky, and found two nice pictures.

 

 Personally I liked the top one the most and decided to go with something similar for my render. I Googled and found a picture with similar clouds and sun placement, and placed my vehicle accordingly. I didn't like the look of it, but along with David (my teacher), we found it might look really cool with it looking like it was doing a turn and slanting a bit through the air. I drew up a concept on how I thought it would look like, and then moved the balloon to match the image, and I think it looked pretty cool so I went with it!

 

Final Render

Rendertime 1:20

End of week assignment - Texturing 03

This week our assignment was to texture the vehicle we modeled last week.

My timetable for the week was planned like this:

Monday 14-16: Color a concept for the texturing and start unwrapping.
Tuesday 14-17: Finish unwrapping.
Wednesday 14-18: Start texturing.
Thursday 14-18: Finish texturing.

Drawing

This week we also drew a lot, and we focused on the basics once again, which is good for us who aren't very good at drawing.

We did some basic shapes in perspective, and practiced different ways of shading.

Color concept

I decided to go for a bit more realistic look this week than the previous assignment.

Finished product

I decided to keep the balloon out of the picture for the renders because it's the weakest part of this model, and because the boat would have been so small in the picture to fit them both that it would be hard to see what was going on with it.

End of week assignment - Modeling 03

This week our assignment was to model a fantasy/sci-fi vehicle. I decided to model a fantasy vehicle.

My timetable for the week was planned like this:

Monday 14-16: Find inspiration, create a moodboard and draw sketches.
Tuesday 14-17: Design a vehicle on paper and start modeling.
Wednesday 14-18: Model.
Thursday 14-18: Model.

Drawing

This week we drew a lot, which is fun, because I learn more each time!

Our focus this week was on realism, with facial proportions etc.

 

Inspiration, moodboard and sketches

 

Before starting my sketching, I made a moodboard that I felt had the feel I wanted to capture with my model, which is a type of 'Air buccaneer'.

My first sketches, which I didn't like much.

And these are my second sketches, giving more information to what I want it to look like.

Final model

Story

My story with this model is that in this world, the entire planet is covered in water, and all the landmass consists of flying islands. This makes all the vehicles in this world flying. The character using the vehicle I made, is basically an amateur pirate. He comes close to the vehicles he wants to rob, launching his grappling hook to attach his boat to theirs.