3D/Animation Training : Week 5

OMG! I finally got some time to update my work! Whoohoo! I haven't gotten a single rest ever since I started the training last year August. Damn, I'm sooo tired but yet I still wanna do more. Call me nuts if you want, but can I do!?

Anyways, as for Week 5 of the training........ it was the most BORING & LAZY week ever! Why? Because after modeling my Akira Bike, I found exterior to be easy & not challenging at all. It's just the same as doing the interior. I can tell than many of us wasn't keen on doing the exterior assignment. Thank goodness illustration was interesting. Week 5, we learn about human body proportion. At last! This is what I've been looking forward! So we're supposed to draw the body following the guidelines that the trainer given us. After drawing the body out, we have to insert the muscles. That was the hardest part. We have to draw front, side & back for both Male & Female. Hopefully my body proportion will improve after doing this. ^^

Male & Female Body Frame

Female muscle frame. I only did for female cuz my character design is a woman.

Also, we hv to come up with a character design cuz in Week 6, we have to start modeling our final assignment which is a character. Luckily I managed to find two artworks that I did while I was teaching my old highschool (Jan-May 2009). I was bored at one time cuz it was my last week in school as a teacher, so there weren't anything else for me to do in the staff room, so I decided to draw. As the result I created two female characters: A lady reaper & an amazon woman. Best of all, I never expected to use it for my character design. WHOOT! XDDD

Her character concept is based on a Grim Reaper

Her character concept is based on a Amazoness/Tribe Leader

For my 3rd assignment which is the exterior design, I decided to just follow the same concept as my 1st assignment, which is the japanese theme. So I modal a Japanese mansion instead.

The entire house modal.

With texture & lighting.

After I finished modal the entire house, I found it boring somehow. So I added some trees, stones & two ponds (front & back of the house). For rendering, at first I used normal baseline lightracer render but it took soo long to render! It even came out horrible! So luckily, we hv a short class about Mental Ray render. It's way more complicated that baseline but the result is really awesome & the render is soo much faster (provided you do the settings correctly). So for this assignment, I used mental ray for the first time. I didn't do much settings on the render, just focus on the lighting & texture adjustments.

With Mental Ray render. Nice isn't it. Just love the water reflection! XD

Top View

Front View

Back View

Left View

Right View

With background & camera angle

As I said again, the house assignment was really boring. Also, I found out that not many did this assignment. Most of them skip straight to the character design or do two vehicle instead. Oh well, no matter how much I don't want to do it, it's still an assignment that we're ask to do. So JUST DO IT!

"You Might Hate It Now, But You'll Find It Useful Later."

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