PATCHES!

After failing at the arm and hand, I decided to take on Patches body. Through the day I had a some help from good old Sarah, Alec, Tom, Mike, Josh and Neil. They all showed me some tips to making the model look better. Unfortunately they were giving the tips to me and the model ended up looking like this, like a roast chicken!

This needs more work, I pray for someone to take this off my hands!

Little Arm and Hand

Hey all, I started modeling patches' arm and hand. Both from a cube and fairly straight forward. It definitely needs more work!

Camera!

Here is the little security camera that I made. I decided to go for a blocky, cartoony look. I cubes pipes and cylinders to create the whole thing! I stuck a couple of wires coming out the back to keep in style with the security console that Neil made. In fact if you look, the whole thing is shaped like a miniature version of the console. I also decided to exaggerate the lens to be more visually interesting!

Enivironment!

Mu gave me his original blockout for the animatic. It had Dean's shelves in as well as some originals from Mu himself. I Took this basic environment and added more detail to it. Firstly I added floor tiles by creating subdivisions and extruding faces. Afterwards I created some lights for the roof. I noticed that the lights for some supermarkets are sort of like stips, so I decided to do that. I then created a power cable form a cylinder. I though this would give the place more character. I then went about creating security camera which i will go into more detail later. It looks a bit naked at the mo, but it's looks OK for now. I had to take the roof off because the occlusion came out completely black.

This week in review!

this week has been very interesting. Mainly I have been experimenting with some modeling, I have even tried some character modeling. Hmmm. I thought that would never happen.

Wednesday we had a meeting with Mr Dave Bull, who seemed to be happy with the way things were coming along. I on the other hand am worried.

J.B has done some fantastic trouble shooting, with regards to the dynamics. Tom has been chugging away at modelling Breadbeard and its coming along nicely. I have been peering over his shoulder and we have been experimenting with different looks. Neil has started modeling objects for the Guard's room, but it is far from finished. Mu Li has provided a very nice layout of the super market, which I will be adding more details to, plus he's working on the boat. Josh has started modelling assets and they look fine, he's cracking on. Dean has really pleased me with a fantastic looking model of Walker, It's still got some ways to go, but it's looking really nice! Mike Quirke has started a pretty sweet rig for both myself and J.B, but we would both like to see it finished. Ash, has been working on the guard and he looks kinda terrifying at the moment so he may need some work. Paul has finished the trolley and it looks superb, however there is a certain bag of food that he has made, with a ridiculously high poly count...we have to change that.

The main problem in both the Pirates and Dummy Groups at the moment is ATTENDANCE. It is bad at the mo. Myself, J.B, Tom, Josh and Neil have been in everyday. Dean arrives in the after noon everyday, but he shows a brilliant level of work that I am really happy with, he also likes to hear my opinions on his work which is great because it shows that he is not afraid of changing the models. I saw Mike twice this term, once this week. He did have a great rig, but It would be better if I could see his pretty face a little more. Mu is in a lot, he could not come in on some of the days which he fully explained which is fine. Ash and Paul on the other hand, have proven more illusive than the loch ness monster. I saw them today for the PPD. Ash, talked to me today and Paul posted a message on the blog, but it is not really good enough. I need to know if they are in, both of them missed the meeting with Dave on Wednesday. They both have said this will change next week, we shall see.

Attendance has been a problem, but the work that have seen had been to a good standard, and in some cases excellent!

These evaluations shall be a weekly thing, as it will help me see how we are progressing on the film.

A little inspiration

Hi! I was paroosing the Internet looking at different models. I all of a sudden, stumbled upon a website of a man named, Andy Wakeley. Here I found this pretty sweet model. I really liked the overall look of the model. I thought the hands were especially fantastic. His body is also very similar to Walker's so I thought it would be useful to put this up. If we could get the models to this sort of standard, it would be very good!

Slowly But...Slowly!

Yup. this was me trying to make Patches again out of a cylinder...It was a bit of a failure!

Hey, I spent a little part of today, ironing out the problems with The patches model. I rounded off some areas and blocked out some areas. I generally tries to make the model look better. It still does not look right. I would also like someone to take this face and add proper topolgy to it. I tried and it did not work out well.