sin blogger.

forgive me blog for I have forgotten to blog.
Actually not really forgotten... more like I'm just trying to get work done and I didn't have time to blog. SO I'M SORRYYYYY!!

Right now i only have 2 more shots to fix up and place into my composite.
The first being Edgar placing the hourglass on the table. Jack added a filter to it and i didn't like it that much so i am getting another render of the shot.
The other one being Edgar placing the seed on the ground and turning the hourglass. For some reason when the shots are rendering a strange thing happened were the whole shot looks like it has been coated in oil...coconut oil to be exact. I got a lot of help from Jack today and I have sent him the file over Dropbox.
I just really hope i get both of my shots back by tonight/ early tomorrow.

I am going into uni tomorrow to try and get anything else i can done. I have also tried to do as much as i can tonight. I have also been searching for some music as Jack wasn't too sure about the music i had selected for the seed/tree. Which is fine, I am happy to find something else. It is a little ball breaking but mehhhh.

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Also what else... I am stressed, my nose bleed for like an hour and a half today. I have been staying back at uni till 5pm since last week and this week. I am confident but want to cry at the same time.

I also got a lot of help from Darren on Monday. He made me add another shot in for scene 4. It worked out well! it is an extra shot of Edgar's face and a shadow passing his face. This is after the shot of him opening the door to outside. New Door...muuummm.

EVERYTHINGGGGGG is in After Effects.. i just want to render this out and i know it is going to take forever. I checked the frames in After Effects and I have 7000!!! and that doesn't include credits and the 2 shots.... 5 min film., IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT NEALEEEE!!!!

That is all.
*walks away from computer*






*comes back*




Did you say something??
ha ha aha

Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I got an email today from Jack telling me that he has worked on the Tree!! YAY!!
It looks awesome! i'm so excited!

where the black area is in the trunk i am hoping that cogs and gears will go there.

I am still trying to work on my 3D animating and I am trying as hard as I can to get it done. Its so frustrating! I just want to punch the computer in the face.
Scene One is complete.
Scene Two is rendered but i am having a few problems with it.
Scene three and four... i am still working on.

:(

week 13.

So it is week 13 now. I am still animating AND i know its bad! I seriously planned to have it done ages ago! But my character wasn't working and so I tried to get everything else done!!
I'm trying to work on my Press Kit which is ball breaking and we don't even get class time to work on it! WHICH SUCKS! So i'm using my animation time to finish it off.

Today Jack helped me out a lot with the animating and I really appreciate it!! One of my weaknesses is 3D animating. It is simply that I don't have a lot of experience and it is my first proper try at doing 3D animating and i am really bad at it!! I'm trying to get things to work but once I move something to animate the whole thing looks horrible!

This animation WILL get done in time!!! Jack has already rendered out the whole of scene 2 for me. So i have scene 3 and 4 left. The only thing i am worried about is how long the render is going to take as Jack told me that scene 2 took a few nights to finish!

MUST STAY POSITIVE!!
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this is all...

3D animating equals mehhhh.

I have continued working on my animating since Tuesday and i am having a lot trouble getting it done. I am trying really hard to animate but I'm not very good at it. I am finding myself animating the same shot for over a long period of time and I feel that i am losing time repeating the same thing.

Today in Darren's class I came across an issue when Edgar opens up the door to go outside. In my storyboards i had only his arm in the shot but when placing Edgar in the 3D scene, his upper body is visible.
I explained this to Darren and he came up with a solution. I keep Edgar in the shot and he opens the door. Then a bright light will come through the door and Edgar will then place his hand over his eyes because its so bright. Then the city shot will come after.

I tried animating the door opening scene and i have spent soooo much time trying to animate his hand. it is so fustrating.

He Lives!!!

On Tuesday Jack gave me the thumbs up for Edgar working. YAY!!!

So since i got him on Tuesday, Jack showed me how to reference my character in Maya which is cool. So this means that if something was to go wrong my character will not get effected within the scene.

Also I suck at 3D animating big time!!! I mean really badly suck at it! i'm trying really hard to animate but i'm making his body look deformed :( and my animating skills are horrible!!
I am doing the most basic animating structure i can so that i have a basic idea of what it is going to look like. I need all the Jack magical power i can get!!

Also for some reason my book that has a page turn, doesn't turn anymore :( whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????
I have stopped at that shot when the page turn happens.

Today Jarrod, Sean and I went into the recording booth and I got Sean to do the voice for Edgar which is cool! It came out great.
I am going to work on other things and tomorrow in Darren's class i am going to try and animate again.

Week 12.

Already in week 12, only 3 more weeks...

On Friday i worked on one of my shots, I got a render of the 3D door and placed it in one of my shots.
For some reason After Effects has been going crazy and super slow! It was also happening at Uni.

I haven't done any other work on my animation as i have a 2000 word essay and a Press Kit to make which are due in a week or two. I am trying to finish them off as soon as I can so that i can just concentrate on my animation.

Edgar is still broken!! i have e-mailed Jack and he is having a look at it! Hopefully Edgar is fixed by Tuesday (tomorrow) and i can begin animating! I know.... don't want the lecture about animating.

please Sean can i have the tickets?

So i got an email back from Jack explaining how to create an AO in Maya. this is a shadow layer over the objects in the room. So that is all good and done.

The alpha problem i was having has also been fixed. The solution was that the alpha had to be fixed in After Effects. Today Darren helped me with the door and added in a light glow for the edges of the door. It did come out a bit bright but i have it there to play around with.

I fixed up the door opening scene and that is now done and i continued on with the shots after that. After Effects started to go super slow and I lost time with the program taking forever just to scrub arcoss the time line. I stopped with that because i was getting really frustrated.

My textures for some reason in the study room have become silver. When i do a render it becomes black. its annoying.. i really dont know what is going on.  

Page Turn Texture.

Jack helped me with fixing the page turn and also being able to have two different textures on both sides of the single page.
It was a little confussing on how he did it. But it had something to do with adding in a Condition and i think a Sampler Info using HYPERSHADE!!!
I made an extra page texture and added it to the other side of the page. It was weird because when you added two different textures to each of the side it came up blurry and the same texture but Jack found out that if you render the page it comes up with two different ones.

I finished off the last of the textures for the books and also made Edgar's writing book and added the textures. I then placed the both into the scene. 

Next I worked on Sc4,Sh1abc. this is when Edgar opens the door to the outside city. I realised that I was using a bad quality play blast from Maya and decided to render out a production quality one. Jack showed me the settings that i needed to use and told me to do it at home (because we had to leave in 15mins) So I did and it took around 40mins for it to finish. It looks good but for some reason the Alpha channel didn't work and so the background when the door opens is still black. I searched for ages trying to find what i did wrong but i could't find anything. 

I did email Jack about it hoping he can give me instructions. 

I am also really worried about my animating... my character doesnt work and Im seriously thinking that i should just start animating in 2D. I have already done animating test. I am freaking out and i hope i hear from Jack soon. If it comes down to me needing to 2D animate i need to render out my scenes fast!!

I got really fustrated yesterday and i found it so hard to work, so i made my credits.. yayyy. 

I just don't know what to do. 

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ZENNYBANE BABY YAAEY YAAEY!!!

I got really tired last night and went straight to bed when i finished the blog. I could hardly keep my eyes open. Today in Neale and Rosalie's class I worked on the last of my textures which is the pages. Yesterday i was freaking out because i had completed one out of the six but today i completed all of them! Yaaey yaaey!

I really like the way they have turned out. By the way for all the writing that is on the pages I used Edgar Allan Poe's 'Raven' poem. Love it!

Just got a picture of the page half way so you can see both of the pages.

This is the handwriting font that i found. I like it and this page is in Edgar's writing book. 

That is the completion of the last textures.... yaaey yaaey! Tomorrow I will talk with Master Lord Jack about the animating and also the shadow effect and rendering. 

It works.

Okay just a quick blog about my weekend so you know what i am up too and blahhh.
So Thursday to Sunday have been completely all over the place for me as i have had so much stuff on and it lead to changing my days/hours at work. IN OTHER WORDS...... I haven't done much work. Which sucks big monkey balls!

I planned to have a lot of work done by Monday, which is tomorrow!!!! And right now i have been up for 16 hours... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

In my last blog i said i had some problems with the page texture looking really bad, well it was because there just wasn't enough polygons and so i think i just wasn't thinking at the time when i had no idea what to do. Anyway I got some help from Tai with his magical two blade hair.

oKAY SO WITH THE PAGE i realised that a few of the UV's were not together so i merged and sewed and now they are fully sick.

I found a nice 'hand writing' looking font on Friday and so i am using that for the pages and I also found a texture that i like and i have just been adding extra age to it in Photoshop. So now ONE page out of SIX is finished... ha ha ha.

Working on Book.

Went into Uni early this morning with Seanmundy and did work on the Book that Jack made for me yesterday. I was trying to add in some Edge Loops so that when the page is smoothed it didn't go all flat and spazzzzz. I was doing it wrongggg and Sean helped me out. There were a lot of edges that didn't line up to another so Sean showed me the Split Polygon Tool to connect them together and the use the Edge Loop tool after.

I taught Sean what the letter Y does in Maya.

It took a while to get it done but without Sean's help i would of been crying about it... i wouldn't of known what to do.

When i got home i worked on the UVs and and tried to organise a layer for the page in the book were the Tree is going to be. I was having a lot of problems with this and the UVs and textures are coming out really ugly and i have tried a few times to fix it.

So as you can see in the picture the writing texture is upside down and backwards. Also if you see in the Texture Editor were the UVs are highlighted green and were they are green in the model are really odd and it is making the texture stretch.

Texture has also become really bad in the bulk pages for the book.
I'm not too sure what i need to do to fix this but tomorrow at Uni i will ask Sean and Tai if they know why this is happening and what i need to do to fix this. If i can't fix this problem it isn't a big deal as i can still continue to work on my textures for this book by doing them on A4 size paper in Photoshop.

meow meowwwww

Lots of Work Tuesday.

Today has been a really good day! I have completed a series of background shots that are for scene 4.
This morning Jack showed me a few ideas for when the tree grows. It is coming a lot nicely!

I completed the background for sh2abc. This is when Edgar walks out of his house and walks towards the camera with the seed in  hand.

I then worked on sh4, this is when Edgar places the seed on the ground.

When Jack was free i asked him if he could help me with creating a book that has a page turn. The bulk pages that i had made were not so good and so Jack showed me a different way to make them. He used the Create Polygon Tool, it looks a lot nicer now! He added some funky shapes to the ends so they look like piled paper.
Jack also helped me with the page turn. I was a bit worried about the texture going onto it but Jack had said that it will be fine and that the same texture will go on both sides. This is fine be me.

We had a few problems with the page turn as the one that Sean found was too flat and the book that i have has a rounded beginning. So Jack showed me how to make a different type of page turn by using a top and bottom row of Joints.

After I got home I decided to make the textures for the cover of the book. I also then duplicated the book so that i have one with a page turn and the other as Edgar's work book.

I added both of my new backgrounds into my running comp so now they are up to date. 

I was looking through my storyboards and I have decided to cut out the shot of when Edgar closes the book and the title is "when we still had trees" The only reason i had that shot in was so that the audience will understand that there are no more trees BUT this shot was for when I didn't have scene one organised. So now the shot will be:

Edgar turns the page and sees the picture of a beautiful tree. He smooths his hand over the picture and says "Beautiful". A slow zoom in and then fade to black. 

I think it is a lot better this way. 

By the way I made this other list a few days a go... yeahhhh i make a lot of lists

and I planned out every single detail that i had left to do. So I planned it out by scenes.

THE LIST

Scene One - 

Scene Two- 

• Model writing book

                      *Textures - 

                                      1. Book cover

                                      2. Circle & question mark (sc2,sh2)

• Model note book

                        * Page Turn

                        * Textures -

                                         1. Book cover

                                         2. Open page left

                                         3. Open page right

                                         4. Turn page left

                                         5. Turn page right

- Sc2,Sh4d ends with Fade to Black.- Transition 

Scene Three-

• Writing Book Texture - 3. Hourglass test #6 (sc3,sh2)

- Sc3,Sh11b ends with Fade to Black- Transition 

Scene Four -

• Sc4,Sh1a - Dark/shadow when door is closed.
• Sc4,Sh2abc- House behind with ground.
• Sc4,Sh3- Side shot of outside city.
• Sc4,Sh4abcde- Ground piece for seed.
• Sc4,Sh5,6,7,8,9ab-Blurred front shot of city in background.

-Sc4,Sh9b ends with Fade to Black- Transition 

The work that I need from Jack are:

1. Mechanical Seed
2. Hourglass

3. Mechanical Tree

4. One Mechanical Flower that opens (sc4,sh9ab)

And I will need to talk to Jack about:

1. Animating Edgar

2. Adding a shadow layer to the 3D set (background)

3. Rendering

Week 10!!

It is now the beginning of week 10! how cray cray!!

So today in class i worked on my essay, so i didn't do anything for my animation. When i got home i organised a day by day excel sheet from today's date till the end of week 14. This is so i can write down what I have done and also what i need to do within the days.

Next i finished off my new running comp!! YAY!! however a few shots at the end are missing. This is the seed opening and when the tree is making. I don't have anything of that yet but i will be talking to Jack tomorrow about it. Also a few backgrounds are white, this is because I need to create a ground with a texture on it. (based all in 3D)

Tomorrow in Jack's class I really would like his help with making a book that can close and help with adding the page turn and adding a texture to the page turn.

a few things are coming up Milhouse :)

oh yeah and I will put this updated running comp into the "running comp" tab up the top of the blog.

Day Twelve, Thirteen & Fourteen, 05-06-07/10

I combined the last three days because it is a lot easier to get it all out in the one go.

First off on Friday i tried to continue working on the open book. I was having a lot of problems with it, mostly because i didn't know what i was doing. I realised that the actual page turn size was different to the book that I made. By that i mean the size of the book, length x width. So it was easy to change the size of it, no problem at all. However when i placed the page onto the book it didn't sit right.

I was getting a bit frustrated with working on the book so i decided to work on something else. I worked on a bit of my running comp and got up to working on Scene 4. I was fixing up the camera angle for sc4sh2ab. This is when Edgar goes outside and his house is behind him. I made the walls for his house too small and so I duplicated the wall i already had and just cut the edges and placed the on each side.

That is all i did on the Friday.

On Saturday i had a lot of errands to do and my whole day went to that. I did work a bit on my Evaluation and Critique essay but mostly setting it up. so it was mainly around an hour towards it.

On Sunday, which is today and stupid daylight savings. I still have done nothing. I am really tired and I didn't get a lot of sleep, also work was crap. Tomorrow Uni starts up agian and it is the beginning of week 10!!!!

 

Day Eleven, 04/10.

Went into Uni today to get some work done. I didn't get a lot done, but the computers are really bad at Uni! so i must of lost a good hour of work time.
Any way i made a simple stand thingy for the hourglass drawer.

And then i finished off the textures for them. I don't know why but there was some issue with Photoshop when i tried to use the magic wand tool to select around the area i didn't want. Seanmundy helped me out with it. For some reason it was selecting every damn object and so when i tried to delete the unwanted  texture it would just delete the whole thing.

 I put numbers on the little square thingys. Also that block at the end is just a stand in for the actual hourglass that will be there. I originally wanted the hourglass standing upright, but the drawer is too small so i might have to see how it goes and get some help when I go back on Monday.

Next thing,

Seanmundy and I have a page turn in our animation and before the holidays I think Jack found this newspaper page turn thing which was good! But when I played around with it the paper didn't actually turn all the way. It would pretty much crap out half way and go spaz.
Sean found this other page turn which is awesome and i only need one! It came with a few but we deleted the other ones.

Yayyyyy.

The other thing was I started to make a open book. Just a simple one anddd I had no idea what i was doing. It was my first time making one. Sean helped me out again. Today was Team Seanpire "you slapped a fishhhh"

The book still needs working on.
Tomorrow is Friday... 2 week holidays is almost over.

Day Ten, 03/10.

Today seemed to go super fast. First its 9am nek minnit its 4pm and then nek minnit its 11pm!!!
I thought i would of had more work done today but this is what I have done so far.

I set up the master camera in 3D for scene 2 &3, this took me some time as i had to remember how to set up the cameras. Its a little annoying as you have to go back and forth between the master camera and the actual shot camera. I then did a playblast so i could have something low quality to use.

I haven't updated my running comp so i wanted to get it done today! BUT i only have scene 2&3 done and not scene 4 so im sorry and i hopefully can get it done tomorrow!

This is what i have done today... this also took some time to do and also i know that some shots drag out for too long and the test animation has different sizing. I will fix that later.

Master camera is crossed off the list.

Last things to do list.

3D (modeling & textures)

- Things on wall

* textures for things on wall.

- Books on desk
* textures for books

- combined all objects

- Model writing book
*texture for writing book

- Model open/close/page turn book
*texture for book

(-Master camera set up)

 2D

- Side shot of outside.

Tomorrow i will be going into Uni with Jarrod and Sean to work in the animation cupboard. 

Day Nine, 02/10.

mehhhhhh.......It's Tuesday already in week 2 of holidays.

First off, I did a layout of how i wanted the side view to look when Edgar goes outside. Okay well this side shot might not exactly line up right with the front view. It doesn't actually have too, The audience will get it.

The door from Edgar's house will be right on the edge and Edgar will be placing the seed in the bright patch.
I Finished this in a day... which is crazy. BUT good!! I'm getting a little faster. I would have finished this wayyy earlier but we had a power out and I lost 3HOURS!!
I did have my laptop though and i tried to start modeling a open book, I failed many times and i couldn't get it right. I did some searching for how to make a book but there was nothing I could learn from. I will still continue to try.

I have also combined the objects together. So now they are all one. I left the middle drawer, so that i can put the hourglass in there and for Edgar to open. 

I have been thinking about the shot i have when Edgar turns a page and sees the tree. I thought that maybe the page can already be on the tree and when he goes to turn the page he then stops before he does and then smooths the page and says "You're beautiful to me grand daughter" oohh wait.. sorry wrong line. I mean Edgar just says "Beautiful" and then closes the book. SOO if i change this that means i have canceled out the page turn. I will still think about it.. Maybe get some feedback. 

Last things to do list.

3D (modeling & textures)

- Things on wall

* textures for things on wall.

- Books on desk
* textures for books

- combined all objects

- Model writing book
*texture for writing book

- Model open/close/page turn book
*texture for book

(-Master camera set up)

 2D

- Side shot of outside.

The hard stuff is last :( halpppppp

Day Eight, 01/10

First week of the holidays is now gone! Only 7 more days until we go back. ehhhh

I love making lists.. i know it's weird. But because i do it i am more organised and its the best feeling when you finish something and you cross it off.

So I decided to do a bit of a test with Scene 4, Shot 1abc. This is when Edgar opens the door and we see the outside/city. Darren had helped me before the holidays to get an idea of what it would look like. I had a few problems with animating the door because i had made it too thick. The wall is also too thick and when i was rotating the door to open it would go through each other.

So what i did was cut the door in half vertically and deleted the side we don't see. I then moved the door back so that it was on the edge of the wall and not in the center. Don't worry i made a copy of the full door for the shot after, this is when we see the outside of Edgar's love shack.

I also tried to change the angle of the camera when the door is opened but then I realised that the outside/city shot didn't match up. This is just a super simple test to make sure it looks good.

I continued on finishing of the two frames i made for the wall and also made two textures for them. One is a seed design and the other is the forest picture i did for the first newspaper.

I then made the textures for the books on the desk. I had a bit of a problem with the textures as the UV layout for the book split in half were the spine of the book is. I also had to have the writing backwards. It was really annoying. Where the UVs meet up there was also a visible line which looked bad 

I had to copy the texture on one side and put it on the other side so that you couldn't see the line of where it meets. I didn't want to put the effort and the time to do all of these for six books. So i decided to make a copy of the book, delete everything and left the spine of the book. I then did an automatic mapping and the spine then became a whole. Then I made sure which side was the top and saved it. Then i simply moved the spine back over the book and pushed it a bit forward. 

Last things to do list.

3D (modeling & textures)

- Things on wall
* textures for things on wall.

- Books on desk
* textures for books

- combined all objects

- Model writing book
*texture for writing book

- Model open/close/page turn book
*texture for book

(-Master camera set up)

 2D

- Side shot of outside.

Day Seven, 30/09

I didn't do any work on Sunday because it was really busy and i was really tired after work.
I did however make a list of things i had left to do and to work on them on Monday.

Last things to do list.

3D (modeling & textures)
- Things on wall
* textures for things on wall.

- Books on desk
* textures for books

- combined all objects

- Model writing book
*texture for writing book

- Model open/close/page turn book
*texture for book

(-Master camera set up)

 2D

- Side shot of outside.


So i will work on a few of these tomorrow.

Day Six, 29/09.

I stayed home on a Saturday night and did some work.

I completed the textures for the drawers.

I also completed the textures for the books.

I actually got a comment on one of my posts and it was from Darren!! He had said that it would be good to add in the extra books and things on the walls. So I didn't over do it with the adding of more books, just enough so it doesn't look to organised.

So a bit more books on top of the drawers and a bit more on the floor. I need to actually fix the ones on the floor as they look still too neat. So I will fix that later on. 

I have also started to make some frame thingys for the walls. Not too sure if i like them, might need to test some more. I think it is the thickness of them. 

And finally! I have been testing the textures for the books on the desk... not too sure if everyone knows but i am putting that the books were written by my fellow classmates. So i was testing the way it looks and Nils' book was the first one. 

Still have some tweaking to do but you get the idea of how i want it to look.

I have work all day tomorrow and I am usually really tired when i get home so i don't know if I will be getting  any work done. I shall try. 

Day Five, 28/09.

After work i was really tired so I didn't get any of the work done that i wanted to do. I had it set in mind that i would wake up early the nest day to get it finished.
Unfortunately, I was really sick on Friday and I tried to get some work done but i couldn't handle it.

I only combined the separate objects for the door and wall together. So now they are two objects not 30 pieces.
It was really annoying as i have lost a whole day where i could of had more things complete.
Things happen for a reason....mehh.

Day Four, 27/09.

I was a little lazy today.

I decided that i didn't want to add extra books into the study room, i think i was just tired last night when i thought i wanted more. BUT if anyone would like to give me feedback if the books i have now are okay or if i should add more. Anyway...

I finished off the textures for the equipment, i also fixed up the walls and floor and changed the colour balance so that they look darker then everything else. I will also need to work on the colour balance for the other textures.

I also did a test with adding a light to the scene.

Its a big too dark, but i like the feeling of it. For NEW DOOR last year, Jack had added a shadow effect over the objects in Alice's room. I'm not too sure how he did it but i will find out and test it on the study room.

I also worked on the textures of the drawers.

It's not finished yet but i will get it done in a flash. Because in Maya the keyboard 'G' is my friend. I just have to assign textures for the labels and handles. 

I have work now so maybe after work i will continue to finish off the drawers and maybe start on the books. 

I am aiming to complete:

- All textures for drawers and books.

by tonight/tomorrow morning.

The last of the modelling i need to do is: If i need to add more books around the place and I need to make a book for Edgar to write in and the book that has a page turn and closes. I know that i will have some issues making the last book but i will search around. 

ohh yeah i also have to remember to combined all the objects together as they are all separate from doing the UV layouts..

Day Three, 26/09.

I was busy all day today and so i didn't really get much work done. After getting home and having some dinner I decided to try and get something done. So I finished off the wall and door textures! YAY!!

I also said yesterday that i wanted to find a texture for my walls and floor and i found one! YAY!

This is what the room looks like now. I have a lot of texture adding to do.

I also took a screen shot of one of my shots where you pretty much see the whole room. So I made some notes of areas that need to be filled.  

This is all i got done in the little time i had today. Tomorrow i will try and get more work done before i go to work. 

Day Two, 25/09.

Today I continued working on my textures for my UV's. The last few textures that i need to do are:
- Books
- Drawers
- Equipment
-wall/floor and door.

I also found a few other textures that i liked so that now not all the objects are using the same texture.

I also added in a few extra books around the area. This is because the area still looked too empty and not complete. Before the holidays Rosalie had suggested to me that i should add in a few more books on the floor and on top of the drawers.

I was thinking for the walls and floor that i would find a really simple sepia toned texture which has a darker tone around the edges. I had tested the teabag texture on the floor and walls and i didn't like it at all! However for the shot when Edgar opens the door to go outside the textures for the wall and door will be teabag.

Unfortunately tomorrow i might not actually get any work done! I will try however get something done even though it will only be a little bit BUT it is still something. I could have completed my textures and all my 3D modelling :( That would of been two Milestones done. blahhhhhh 

Day One, 24/09.

Already it has hit the 2 week holidays. I hate you time.

Anyway on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I was sick and lost three days of work, which is really annoying. But I also needed a break so I decided that once it hit Monday I would start working to get things done.

In the morning I set up my tea and brushes and started working on the textures for my 3D objects. I made two of them and then it took forever for them just to dry and I felt that i was wasting time.
Before the holidays Sean gave me an idea to make one big texture and then cut the UV's into it. So i decided to test it! It does take some time as i need to change the textures around and cut into them. I also have to make a few different copies for the same item, such as the books.

This is the texture that i am using. I am going to make a few more so that i don't get repeating patterns.

I first worked on the chair. I like the way it turned out.

I then added textures to the drawers. I don't know if you can notice but the actual body of the drawers is a bit blurry. The smaller objects can handle the textures a lot better. The Drawers will take some time to finish as there are so many to apply the textures too. 

I then worked on the light. The top is still gray because that will be transparent. 

So a lot of today was taken up by cutting up UV's and then applying them to the object to make sure that it looks good. I still have heaps to do and tomorrow i am going to continue working on the UV's. Hopefully i can get them complete.  

2D city shot.

In Darren's class I worked on my city shot. Jack had told me on Tuesday that i needed to have some powerpoles in the foreground. I was working on it and really liked the look but then Darren pointed out that you might not actually see the foreground powerpoles when Edgar opens the door.

So Darren placed the image into After Effects and cut the ground to give it depth. He then made a solid to symbol the door and used the Z depth to move the camera forward.

I know that the ground moves oddly, this is just a test to see what it looks like.

So I decided to add in lines that are coming over and go towards the city.

I need to start working on my side view soon!! Anyway it would be really good to get some feedback.