More Work on the King

So yeah, to keep things simple, this last week has managed to be very,very busy...

I ended up redoing the columns twice, the second time with help from Marla and Yuya. Working with Yuya can be a bit overbearing, since there's no real question about the fact that he's legions ahead of me in ability. Still, I fell I learned a lot through the experiance, and ultimately the two of us together managed to produce something that looked pretty good. After Yuya left I cleaned up and set up the UVs for the model.

I also put together railing to be used in the central image. I tried to follow Marla's request for a simple design with circles, while being sure the rails themselves would look nice and fit into the Gothic style used in the main Castle model.

Other then the work done for Exit the King I've also been busy getting my work done for my Animation Class (Object Toss Project), my character design for Marla's class, and work for anatomical drawing.

..... and my laptop's monitor appears to be dead. I shouldn't be surprised, since the poor thing has been having trouble running and starting up over the last few months, and the cooling system is pretty much dead.....

Meeting With The King

Meet today with Marla, Yuya, a student working on the production's lighting, and the person whom I believe is directing the play itself.

Not to much to say, other then I'm happy to report that the basic model I created has been approved by Marla and the Director, though there is still plenty of clean up work to be done. Still, it's nice to go that I'm going in the right direction, and the groundwork for the modeling, for the most part, has been done.

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Now I just have to get back to work on all of the OTHER stuff on my to do list. Also need to remember to ask Marla if the Character Design class ever gone to my Character after I left to take Tex to his Doctor's appointment. I kinda want to know what feedback was given, if any.

Senior Thesis Assist As of 1/11/2011

Alright well, I've got a lot of past events to report here, and yet a lot of work ahead, so I'll keep this as simple as possible.

Before Winter Break I had attempted to sign onto a game project presented by some seniors, but alas they never got back to me. So instead a signed up to help the head of my major's department, Marla, with a project to create a digital castle that will deteriorate over time to be used in a state production.

Once I returned from break I meet with Marla and the other student I am working with, Yuya on Wednesday. It was decided that I would take care of the base mesh for the castle to start things off, while Yuya focuses on preparing the textures. On Saturday and Sunday I created the basic model, focusing on keeping the model simple enough to UV and Texture within the time we have available to us, but grand and "powerful" enough in appearance to emulate the feeling of an actual Gothic style Castle.

After sending the model to Yuya we discussed what we had so far. I still plan to work on the model a bit more, mostly cleaning up some rough edges, deleteing surfaces that do not appear inside the castle hallway being modeled, etc.

FIRST

And now I've finally gotten around to starting this blog.

Right now I'll be using this for my Senior Thesis Assist Class, as a means of reporting the work I've done and the progress made afterwords. I will also be using this as a my main spot for posting all information in regards to all of the projects I'm working on.