Chibi Fun Times

Gonna dust off this blog and use it to keep track of le lastest project because I just really want to complete it and move on but I’m horrible at staying on track and I’m just way to easily distracted. 

Also I keep taking breaks from it which is not the best way for me to work. I need to graze constantly. 

Current project is this;

2D image to be made into a 3D scene. 

This isn’t an entirely current image as I’ve been in the process of UV unwrapping the scene but nothing looks really good in the UV unwrapping process. 

Hopefully I want to have the UV unwrap completed by this week. 

I still have a little modelling to do but unfortunately, it’s been rather annoying so I’ve moved on for the time being so I can still keep moving on. 

Important issues; 

There’s still a few issues I have and it’s mainly the sofa. In the picture I can clearly see there’s some details on the sofa however I’m completely unsure what it is. I think it’s that button detail you see on chairs but the frequency and the spacing between them in the image doesn’t look quite right? Like, there’s something wrong with it. 

Also, I have no idea what images  to put in the pictures since I don’t have access to the original pictures in the frames. 

Things changed from the original image; 

Basically, I wanted to keep the scene as close to the original as possible however I made minor changes in some areas due to lack of information in the scene. You’ll see those later but the other thing is the chandeliers. 

I had to change the design cause I needed reference to make them, I tried to model them at the picture and it never worked out the way I wanted so unfortunately I had to change it. 

Evaluate the potential of new techniques and technologies in a chosen specialization. 

Real Time Rendering is slowly being integrated into the games and animation world with programs and software becoming more and more available for both professionals, students and hobbyist. 

Real time rendering refers to the interactive elements of computer graphics rendering lighting, textures, materials with little to no rendering time. There are more an more programs using this technology but two main engines are Unity   (Unrealengine.com)and Unreal (Unrealengine.com) both of which are primarily used as gaming engines however these programs are used by architectural environment simulators, modelers and animators to create what once took hours, days or even months of rendering to be created in real time. 

"We are finding that we can handle scenes with more polygon density with better shaders applied than ever before," says The Third Floor supervisor Albert Cheng, "And together with the other higher quality lighting model, which has become a significant motivator for the switch to VP2.0, the visual quality of our work has gone up."   (forever)

What this technology is allowing that the industry hasn’t seen before is better flexibility over shadows, lighting and shaders. It’s allowing a much higher quality lighting simulation as well as a much more realistic experience.  

Another plus, it’s it also a lot more cost effective for companies to use this real-time rendering because it’s a lot faster to not only render but to light cutting down on the time spend on these tasks. Both the listed programs are extremely cost effective for companies to use but also allow everyone to have access to these tools as well which allows even people who aren’t in big companies or wanting to get into these industries to get a head start or attempt to learn on their own. 

So what does this all mean for the industry? 

It means that creators can make much more realistic images that rival that of real life in less time. 

"Unreal Engine 4 scales from indie projects to high-end blockbusters; it supports major platforms; and, it includes 100% of the C++ source code. Epic's goal is to give developers everything, so they can do anything and be in control of their own schedule and their own destiny. Whatever is required to build and ship a game can be found in UE4, sourced in the Marketplace, or built and shared it with others." (GameSpot)

It also allows smaller companies or indie’s to create environments that were once only achievable for big companies. It also means that the future and benefits of real time rendering will be here a lot faster than we can anticipate. 

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