Barrel 3DAP-S01

The first session of 3D Art Production involved us getting used to Autodesk Maya. To do this we were given a tutorial on how to make a barrel. The tutorial covered some of the more essential tools. This tutorial also taught us about UV mapping. Once we had modeled a barrel we took several UV Snapshots. One of the outlines of the UVs, one of the coloured materials and one of ambient occlusion. We combined them in Photoshop and added some textures before bringing it back into Maya on a lambert material. I ended up with this as my final barrel.

I could have made a better texture for this barrel. It needed a bit more work to make it suit the low poly style of the model. I could have made the texture more cartoony. I am happy with the result though and now know how to model and texture, to a degree, in Maya.

Robot Copying VD-S01

In the first week of Visual Design we had to copy a robot picture in Photoshop. This was to help us understand silhouette drawing and value. I am generally happy with my result but I rushed the legs and the hand on the left is too bulky. I also don't like how I made the lighting on the stomach.

Life Drawing S01

Here are the drawings that I created during my first life drawing session. We used a couple of techniques during this session such as continuous line and also measuring proportions to be more accurate.

Robot Concept Art Project

The brief for the first uni project was to create a bad-ass original design concept for a robot character.

I decided to use what I have learned from Josh Nizzi, who is a professional robot concept artist, when designing my robot.

First I found images of robots that I wanted to take inspiration from. I later put these on a front page.

Then I created 9 rough sketches using a grey flex marker to make silhouettes and a black ball point pen to add simple detail.

Then I chose some of these designs and made 3 more refined sketches from them.

Finally I chose my favourite of these 3 and created a final design using pencil and coloured pencil.

I liked this project and I am happy with the final design but if I did it again I would use something different to colour the final image because the pencils make the image very light.