#tafe work

Rendering & Lighting

For this final assessment, we had to light and texture a fruit bowl matching a photo reference we were given. I find lighting relaxing but it takes a very long time to get right (especially trying to match a reference). I’m pretty happy with how these textures turned out, they also took a really really long time to perfect. The apple and bananas were textured in Substance Painter and the grapes, orange and basket were procedurally textured in Maya. I think those grapes took me two full days to get right 😅 (the pear and table aren’t textured, we weren’t actually supposed to texture this many fruits, which I found out far too late lol)

Animation

Our last animation assessment for the year was to animate a character jumping. A lot harder than it appears 😅 I also modelled, textured and lit this scene for it and I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve modelled/textured so far 😄 I’m very excited with how much my skills with 3D animation have improved over this semester! definitely an elective I’ll be taking for 3rd year 😊

Compositing

So I really think compositing is super fun, as you might have guessed by the amount of compositing I do for my sims shots xD For our final assessment for this class, we were given an animated spaceship (modelled and textured in Maya by our teacher) and had to composite it into an animated background scene of our choice using Nuke. Nuke is a very complex program, kinda like uber-Photoshop 😅 This very short shot took a ridiculous amount of time to create and I’m still not 100% happy with it but at some point you just gotta submit the thing, lol 😆

Production Studio

My major major project of this semester 😆 This was a group project that challenged us to use all our skills from our other classes. The brief was to model cars of the future, based on cars from the 50s, and they had to light up, talk, and fly 👀😬 I did have a lot of fun with this over the semester and I’m really happy with the final result, although there was quite a lot of drama with one member of our group who caused us a lot of troubles. 😅 The final renders for the film took such a long time that we had to get a full on render farm going over a weekend with multiple people rendering out different shots, and even then we had to render at fairly low quality to get it done. Very eye opening for the amount of time it must take to render out a full 3D animated film 👀