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This is a turntable of my final treasure item with lighting. I decided to create the set of Kanto gym badges from Pokémon, as I though this would be interesting to create. I looked at many different ideas for what to create, looking at the buster sword from final fantasy, a time piece from a hat in time and a bag of bells from animal crossing. These objects were all from games, as gaming is one of my main interests and pastimes. I am very happy with the way this item turned out, especially the badges themselves as they are the main focus of the object. I think the subtle textures on the display section of the box also give a nice effect, and make it look more interesting and convincing. I am also happy with the lighting in this scene, as it nicely reflects on the metallic parts of the object, mainly the badges themselves and the gems put into the side of the box.

This shows my final scene created from the “King’s treasure” file. I tried to create a dark midnight kind of feel to the scene, and I think the blue reflections on objects like the coins and some of the badges reflects this well. I am also especially happy with the jar object to the side, which I decided to fill with fairy like orbs that emit a nice pink light on the rest of the scene. To make the blue lighting more realistic and interesting I decided to move the scene over to the window, allowing the blue light to better reflect onto the objects. I also added a background to be seen out the window that added some simple stars to make it look more like a midnight sky.

This is the unwrapped UV’s of my custom treasure item that I created. I think the best UV’s shown here apply to the badges themselves, as I think they are the neatest and easiest to understand, however this is mainly down to the range of different shapes that they have. While I think the overall layout here works well, the UV’s for the box and letters could be more organised and neater to make it easier to understand which part fits onto each part of the box.

This phone was the second model created as part of the Maya project, and is similar to the chair in the way it is presented. I think this turned out pretty good, with a bronze like material put onto it.

This is the final version of the chair model, with textures and lighting applied to it. I think some of the textures around the cushioned areas of the chair could have been improved to be less shiny and reflective, making them look more like a softer material.

This is the first complete model I created wit Maya. We used a reference image to make it easier to create the chair and to make it as accurate as possible. I am happy with this model overall and I think it looks good and works well as a simple model.

This is the final reel containing all previous animation exercises, flour sack iterations and walk cycle iterations. I also decided to add some music to this to make it nicer to watch, I used two tracks from Ikson, titled “With you” and “Day off”.

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I think this talk was interesting and I found the way they started with creating flash games especially interesting, as it is a simple first step that allowed them to move forward and go into much larger projects later on.

They also gave some good advice towards the end, adding that it is ok to make mistakes on the course, as it allows for further learning of the software being used. They also said that spending time collaborating and getting peer feedback was worth doing, as it allows for greater improvement of further work.

This is the final version of my characters walk cycle. I added some wind lines to it to give a better effect that they are walking against a strong wind. This character has an extra piece coming from the scarf that is not on my character design sheets, however I think it adds a bit more detail to the coat instead of it being a flat colour for the whole thing. I am happy with the way this walk cycle turned out, and I think it is successful in giving a bit more life to the character created through the character design part of the unit.

This shows the final linework of the walk cycle, as well as a coloured version. This is pretty much the same as the previous iteration, it is just cleaner and slightly more consistent in areas. The colours use reflect the colours I decided on in my character design sheets.

This version of the walk cycle is close to the final iteration. The linework will need to be cleaned up a bit and colour will be added for the final version. It shows the added clothing that has been put over the top of the lined guides I had in the previous version, however I have decided that the hair will stay down and appear heavier. This is mainly because I felt it was too much with the coat, scarf and hair blowing together, and I think it looks better with just the two.

This is the final version of the flour sack mystery project, keeping most of the aspects of the previous iterations and being cleaned up in certain areas, for instance the jump now keeps the line across the flour sacks body to maintain the positioning of the feet and keep the orientation more consistent. I think this flour sack animation works nicely, and creates a cute short story of the flour sack sneaking up to the rocket and being surprised when it takes off while it is holding on.

These were short drawing exercises that involved drawing animals and finding what shapes made up each animal. Once finding the shapes and basic form of the animals, it becomes easier to exaggerate or characterise certain parts. This is something that I did with one of the giraffe pictures, to make a sleepy or sad looking giraffe character.

This was a short exercise in which we drew different poses referenced from images of real people. This was something that was very useful for me, as posing and accurate proportions in poses is something I need to work on, and I think I made some good progress on it through these poses.

This was a short exercise we did that introduced different folds and how they apply in different ways. This definitely helped me understand how clothing can fold over different parts of the body, and how to draw this in a realistic and convincing way.