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Final rendered head of Katie. Not too bad, but then again not great. I found this task quite difficult to overcome but I kept powering through, trying to fix it up to the best of my ability. Saying that, it has slight Katie resemblance from the side. From the front though I think it just looks nothing like her at all haha.

Nearly there! #creepyface

Katie’s mouth from the side looks like theres a bit of a gap but it’s just the way her lip goes. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t achieve this look without either giving her a duck pout of having her mouth open slightly.

I know it’s not difficult to create an eyeball, but Claire had suggested this tutorial to me and it was very simple and easy to create. I just wanted to create something extra for the head.

The ear was difficult. It got quite confusing with all the different lines on the ear and having to try and extrude different bits different ways. 

So this is the process that I went through to create Katie’s ear. By watching a tutroial, I then went on to draw the outlines on photoshop of Katie’s ear and then by bringing it into maya I was able to draw it out with the multicut tool and from there extrude it out.

Dylan suggested I look at this ear tutorial for modelling the ear. It was hard! Who knew how complex ears were. 

Some progression shots of the head. I tried my best to keep good topology within the model. I think I achieved it well enough, around the eyes and mouth I was able to keep the circular ring pattern. 

They make it look so easy! It’s unreal though.

So I got Katie to model and these are some of the photos I took of her, different angles, different facial expressions to see if I can capture the likeness of her.

Every feel like this? All the time.

The important aspects of storytelling.

Threshold Guardians : As the hero approaches the threshold in which they would like to enter through, they’re most likely to encounter a threshold guardian which tests the character from continuing their quest. In Greek Mythology a 3 headed dog named Cerberus which guarded the door to the underworld in which the hero must pass this objective and continue their journey, much like the 3 headed dog in Harry Potter which guards the trapdoor to the Philosophers Stone.

Harry literally crosses the threshold when he goes into Diagon Alley and into the wizard world, after both worlds were being separated by a brick wall. It is his first experience into the wizard world and Harry commits to the adventure in Diagon Alley by buying his wand and school supplies etc.

So at the beginning looking at The Hero’s Journey, to get my head around the whole understanding of it I looked up some examples. I thought this was a good example of Toy Story, going through the whole film and giving examples of each section.