Personal blog 07

Week 07

Visual Design

So we finally come back to environment. For this task I had to go out to Leicester and draw an interesting building not an urban environment but a unique building that’s been there for ages. I instantly chose classical buildings don’t know why but it stood out to me and always managed to catch my eyes. So I chose a couple of classical buildings so I could warm up my hand by doing 12 thumbnail sketches before I did my final. Soon after the sketches were done I did my final. I drew the final in a different composition just to make it look more interesting and not boring if you know what I mean. See like sometimes I think the composition of the sketch makes it more unique. Anyway before I get carried away here is my sketch for the final….



When my final was done I was really happy with my final outcome but comparing to my other finals this looked less detailed than the others but the simplicity stood out to me. I was happy with the final outcome the only thing that put me down again was the perspective I think it was slightly off… =( but I won’t give up until its perfect =D.

Game Production
Wow is the seventh week…times flying! So now I handed two projects which were the treasure chest and the trash. Now I was handed with a project which was to create a self portrait in the style of Mortal Engines. For our reference I had to purchase a book of Mortal engines written by Phillip Reeves. I had to read the book and choose an interesting character and start modeling myself in the style of the book. After reading the book I have chosen my character and it is no one but the main character Tom Natsworthy…a 15year old kid who is always rushing to places!
In occasion like this I normally get confused but I chose my character straight away without any confusion which was a stress relief and it was beneficial as I saved time =D…
Straight to work….i started to sketch few ideas for my character and started on 3d max staright away!!

This is what I got done in the first week to be honest I was quite impressed.





I was a bit scared of the third project due to last year gladiator project.
I struggled on my character and the end result looked terrible it was shit I tell you. Anyway I uploaded my character from the first year so I could make the improvements clearer enough to see but I was still dreading on making the face.

Here’s the character from last year….



It’s bad isn’t it!!…when I looked back at this and looked at my present one it made me laugh and realize how much I improved…=D looking forward to next week for my character design…