#futureworks

In the future, I would like to collaborate with Fine Art students. Further elaborating, Designing posters to showcase their works to the right target audience, coming up with a layout for their portfolio, and working with them to promote their own business! As someone who had more experience with fine arts rather than Design, I would be able to work with them efficiently. Plus, Fine Art students should be well recognised and appreciated as Artificial Intelligence has been more utilised recently. I have heavy respect for Fine Art students as they are dedicated to create art based on their experience in an aesthetically pleasing manner. They also take a bigger step in the art industry to pursue fine Arts as a business, although it is not easy.

Moreover, I’d love to work with SPCA, Singapore’s community pet clinic to design advertisements or films to prevent animal abuse, neglect or mistreatment. It is terrifying to learn of the many cases where people abuse stray cats. For example, recently a man threw two stray cats out off a HDB building. Thus, I believe that I can raise awareness by working with SPCA, hoping these vile acts discontinue.

Lastly, for my final year project, I want to continue on a concept I used for my O level Art exam in 2023.; this time using 3d renders and more. I painted and visualised my version of bionic body parts that create a realistic feel for the disabled and injured. Thus, I’d like to utilise critical thinking and my prior experience with other modules especially Studio A and Digital skills, to bring life to my concept. I’d like to design videos on how it will work in a visually appealing way and hopefully 3d- print my prototype of it. I am prepared that it will not be as easy as it seems, but my dedication and hard work will pay off, all thanks to critical thinking and experiences.

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References in MLA style:

Flugelman, Ivan. “How to Become a Better Art Director.” Medium, Medium, 9 July 2016, ivanflugelman.medium.com/how-to-become-a-better-art-director-4d6e1c709445. (accessed 13 november)

Lydia Lam                                                                                    @LydiaLamCNA, et al. “Ang Mo Kio Cat Abductions: Man Admits Throwing Cats down from HDB Blocks, Killing Them.” CNA, 15 Oct. 2024, www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ang-mo-kio-cat-killer-barrie-lin-pengli-abduct-throw-animals-4679536. (accessed 7 november 2024)

group members: aretha(me), Jamie Heng, He Ling Yu, Roxanne Michael, Stevany Angelica

Below are some docummentation of my "bionic body part" design concept for 2023 O levels, I wish to continue for my final year project.

Hi Secret Everlark Anon! :)

Modern Au was the direction I was leaning in as well. OK, that sounds pretty workable. I can't promise anything will be done for a while, because I've gotten behind on some of my original WIPs, but in the next couple weeks I could definitely make something happen.

Keep your eyes open!

Women’s Day Special Interview with – Akshata -Production coordinator at Future works

can you introduce yourself?

Hello, I’m Akshata Gayakawad working as a production coordinator in future works, Chennai. 

What inspired you to step into the VFX/ Animation Industry?

Well! VFX industry is something which fascinated me from my college days, where I started watching Hollywood movies and started exploring behind the scenes and also started dreaming to be part of the crew.…

Now that my time at university is over, just thought it would be helpful to compile some of the projects I have worked on all into one post! Everything contained within is programmed by Curtis Jump personally. All of the art, and in several cases the music, was also by me too. 2018: “Jerboa Solider”

My main solo project from the last year of my operations at Futureworks university Manchester. It’s a 3D shmup created in Unreal Engine, with a stylised limited palette, and efficient use of fully textured low-polygon characters and modular terrain (Made in Maya/Photoshop). I’m very satisfied with it’s play-ability, which was the result of many hours put into getting others to test it for me! Not exactly sure where to take it from here, but with a full health system and weapon options, it is extremely expandable. 2016: “Kunoichi Overdrive”

A Doom-clone with ancient eastern themes, that really represents my first steps into using Unreal Engine. It looks nice and plays okay (It had proper shooting mechanics, enemy AI and a full health system), but the integration of animations was a little poor. It did, however, still have entirely original music!

2015: “DinoFace”

A 2D shmup created in Unity, primarily with C# coding. It’s a little primitive to look at, but does have multiple enemy and shot types, a health/lives system, a boss, menu/pause screens, several pieces of original music... If anything, I’m mostly still proud of the personality that comes across, though.

Evaluation of Artefact 2

What went Wrong?

The first mistake I had made was having too much of a scope and ambition when creating the project plan. I had wanted to make two different characters, one in a hazmat suit and another one as a transformed version. Quickly realising early on in the project that doing both of those characters would be too much for me. I talked to my project leader and reduced the scope to only one body-horror character. Even so, I had made many time management mistakes as well as other mistakes that caused my time to do the full body character become very limited. This also included time put into other assignments pushing back this project etc. All this causing me to bring the project down to a non-retopologised head.

I feel that in this project the main things that went wrong were definitely all the time constraints and the misuse of my time whilst working on this project. There were a lot of times where I felt I could have used my time a lot better to complete the project as my original project plan. The biggest mistake that I had made was that I focused too much detail on the head too early in the project, meaning that I was taking a lot of time in doing little details that should have been done as polish after doing all of the base anatomy for the full-body. On top of that, to save a good amount of time I could have used the base mesh within Zbrush to save a large amount of time rather than starting from a sphere to sculpt on. If I had a human base mesh already in place, then I could have warped the anatomy then added details much earlier in the project.  

What went Well? 

Even with all the problems that did arise from this project, there were a lot of things that did in fact go extremely well. I am very satisfied with how the sculpt went for the head. There were a lot of things that came out better than I could have ever imagined when I started this project. I feel that I have learnt a lot of new techniques, workflows and tools that I can use numerous times in other models that I will be sculpting inside of Zbrush. Some of these include; how to use alphas efficiently in Zbrush and how I can use them to save time, creating ripped skin, the workflow of sculpting from a sphere, sculpting teeth, using the snake hook tool proficiently and many other things.  

Another thing that went well was definitely the Poly paint that I had done. Due to massive time constraints I had decided not to retopologise the model and instead texture it within Zbrush. I have never had any experience of poly painting before, but I feel like the polypaint came out much better than I had planned. I had planned to only get some base colour paints onto the model to give it more volume than just the sculpt. However, I managed to do a full poly paint of the model.

What would I have done differently? 

The part that I would have done differently about this project would have to be to reduce the scope by a large margin before the project started and be able to evaluate my skills to what I can make in the deadlines I am given.  

Overall feelings on project Overall I am actually pleasantly surprised with how well the final sculpt and paint came out. Yes there were a lot of problems and it is extremely different to my original plan, however I am satisfied with the results. As with the scope getting a lot smaller as time went on, I learnt more skills in Zbrush as I was focusing on the detail of the head rather than making a large body. Then I would have had to detail all of those parts. Therefore, I know that in this case it is a case of quality over quantity with my skills as they are as well as with all the constraints of other projects being done at the same time.

Final Model

I would have definitely made some sort of window in the Focal Point area so that the player could tell exactly where they were. This would mean that the game would have communicated to the player that they reached their goal, as well as giving them the satisfaction of looking at where they once were to where they are now. If I were to do this, I would have definitely also would have to add a whiteboxed version of the Focal Point and the full Skyscraper so that the player wouldn’t just be looking at a floating level. 

Next time I will instead greybox most of the level if not all of it in Maya to begin with. As I had a fair bit of trouble modelling after Unreal and having to bring the Maya models into Unreal where there is no moving via vertices. If I were to build in Maya then I could have avoided that and easily greyboxed it and whiteboxed the level much quicker as well as efficiently.