Layout for the end of year exhibition planning showing an ambient occlusion render from within Maya, and a screenshot from within Unreal game engine with textures.
Friday 27 May 2016
planning show
PLANNING END OF YEAR SHOW
3D modelling artists using the same techniques are most likely to display their work as high resolution renders from within the software they modelled the object, in game engines where viewers can simply walk around the model and experience it for themselves. Since Virtual Reality is now becoming a big thing in the industry, artists are now using the new equipment to display their work, for example if someone were to model a building inside and out, instead of rendering multiple images, they could give the viewer a set of VR goggles and he could simply walk in and out of his modelled work, looking around at the artists work.
The ideal way to present my work in the future as I would like to become an environment artist, having the correct resources to present them, I would choose to maybe capture it on an animated camera to move through my scene focusing on some of the key elements in that scene to really sell my work to the viewer.
My ideal audience would be industry professionals and possibly construction professionals, If I was presenting game assets then the industry professionals would be the ideal viewer, but If I was modelling an outdoor scene then the construction teams would be ideal.
I would invite game designers themselves to get pros and cons of my work and where there are points that could be improved drastically.
Facebook would be the social media that I would promote the exhibition as you can choose to share the promotion to friends, or the public.
work evaluation
WORK EVALUATION
The overall theme for my assignment is The Land of Modern 3D for this I would be focussing mainly on modern/futuristic buildings in a futuristic layed out land, my main objective was originally to create a floating island that holds a futuristic land full of unusual futuristic buildings, due to time scale I have only focused on one element of that futuristic city and refined.
Throughout this assignment I have developed ideas and gathered ideas for initial drawings from my research into the land of futuristic cities, creating mood boards of futuristic buildings, land layouts from games, and buildings from games, doing this has helped me developed each design more realistic, without this research I wouldn't have any ideas on shapes, sizes or layouts.
The reference material that I had found throughout this project has varied from research of images into moodboards, research of screenshots from gameplay of games containing features that are related to my project, throughout this research I have found techniques that could possibly improve my work, this could be to help develop the ideas for land layouts, and building placements, and the design process of buildings, colour schemes of those buildings. I had also gathered reference material which has been referenced on the blog of where I had found this information, which helps towards the development if my scene would be featured in a game, gathering information from a game series called Anno, there is information on how the game works, different people in game, and levels.
All the information that was gathered was useful in different ways, in some ways it was to help develop ideas, drawings, watching clips of tutorials was very useful for 3D modelling, what to do and what not to do.
The research has only influenced my design for better, each bit of information gathered, from group critiques, to viewing professional blogs and portfolios, it has affected my design process as it is clearly visible how well their designs are and how much it pays off on the final model.
My skill development has mainly all come from research, experiments and design process, carrying out each individual one of these over this assignment and previous ones, it can be seen that from the start to now, my skills have definitely improved and will continue to develop the more that is done.
The artists that have inspired me, are mainly the 3D modelling artist, mostly the artists that have previous experience in games companies working on well known titles, such as Rockstar and Ubisoft modellers, seeing these artists’ portfolios really inspires me as their work is the level of detail and dedication to what I am working towards, without inspiration there is no possible route to success or obtaining life goals.
The tool and techniques that the artists I inspire use, are mainly computer software and having the modelling to a high level skill, with the artists working for large game designing companies each person has a different job, therefore the only techniques they need are modelling and UVing the object/objects ready to pass to the texturing artist.
I have used a range of materials/tools to create my work, started off by using pencil and paper to design initial drawings, and developed drawings, then I would begin to model those drawings in Autodesk Maya, after the model has been created, I used the basic skill I have at UVing the object, then switch back to Photoshop to create the texture for that object, which would then be imported onto the object back in the 3D modelling software. Then put it into Unreal for game engine prep.
The techniques and materials I used influenced my outcomes as it is all in the process, switching between the software is necessary to making the finished model look realistic and improve the presentation, the UV process helps the texture not stretch and keeps it looking crisp.
My work changed quite a lot throughout the project as I started making models as experiments and if they nicely finished I would add them into my final scene, but getting through the modelling slowly but surely, after completing around 6 models as experiments I had realised that there wasn't enough time to finish a range a buildings to a high standard, have them all UV’ed properly and have all textures created, with all the maps generated for each building so the lighting and shadows were on point. Therefore I went back to my plan and modified it so I would focus on only one element of the city, which has turned out rather nice I reckon.
The only research I wish I had investigated further would be to research which materials the futuristic buildings could possibly be, whether they are a coloured chrome material, brushed metal, shiny metal. Taking out this research would have helped my design process even more than it was already as I wouldn't have had a struggle creating the textures.
I have used formal elements in my final piece as well as the design process, in the final piece the main elements used, are colour, shape and texture. Whereas in the design process I haven't added any colour as my designs are either initial designs or layouts that are blocked out, therefore the main elements used in the design process are line and shape.
Yes I am happy with my final piece, even though there is much more to develop with it, I am happy with the final piece, I particularly like the effect that the chrome has, it portrays the futuristic feel, as soon as someone mentions future you think shiny, which leads to chrome. This piece shows how much my skills have developed, and makes me feel like if I put enough effort into the work, I can get what I want out of it.
Sebastian Vomvas is one of the artists that I took most influence from, mostly from the form and texture from his modelling work, with enough experience and experiments on models I can get my work to roughly the same detail that he does.
If I was to do this project again, I would completely change my view overall, and start by thinking smaller, a lot smaller, and work on immense detail instead of thinking big, to a litter lower detail and not being able to finish on time which was one of my problems throughout the assignment
Self Evaluation
SELF EVALUATION
Throughout this assignment I have learnt many things, in this project I had been introduced to a game engine, I was shown the basics and how things work which has improved the look of my final piece drastically, I have also learnt new techniques with the 3D modelling software I have been using to create my final piece and experiments, I learnt how to UV and model with different techniques by watching through the clips Chris our tutor had provided of 30 hours worth of modelling, UVing and texturing tutorials which has helped me out loads in this assignment and will do in the future of my modelling work.
This assignment is important to the course and my career as I have found out the importance of initial designs and developing them to get a better idea on how to find the best way for me to start the concept art or being modelling, I feel the way I have designed and stuck to my plan has helped me figure out ways to work more efficiently and at a faster pace which will allow me to complete work in a shorter time scale in the future.
I feel that I have given this assignment equal effort between the written side as well as the designing and modelling work, whereas I feel I should give the designing and modelling work a little more effort as that is the piece that sells the show.
Looking through my design process and all written work uploaded onto my blog, I feel the part that was done really well in my opinion was my modelling work as that is the part of the assignment I most enjoy and interested in when mid work. Although the research side is interesting and learn new information each session of research is taken out, I still feel the modelling is part done well.
The mistakes I had made throughout this assignment were not extensive and did not stop me from completing my work, the mistakes I made was in the planning and in the 3D modelling software, in the planning I had given myself too much work to complete without enough time to finish everything to a high standard that I’d like.
The other mistake I come across was during the render of an experiment that I had created with a textured I had put together myself, but I had overcome this by closely looking through rendering settings and experiment until I had fixed the problem and got the outcome I wanted in the first place.
The classroom activities that helped me learn the most effectively are the group critiques and the times where we are gathered at the front of the classroom to discuss work or work related subject such as the time we were discussing as a class about recently released triple A titles and the evolution of games and the way they are designed, these activities helped me learn new information whilst getting to know classmates more.
The techniques I had used that I haven't before was creating a texture, but creating the different maps to go with the normal colour map, creating normal and specular maps so that depth is visible on the object and the lighting effects work perfectly, I was given advise on how to create these effectively by a tutor who has experience in texture making, which I had created in Photoshop to add to a flat floor tile in 3D modelling software. Not having experience in making them before it was all new information and learning for me which has stuck and will become useful in the future.
The texture making techniques is definitely something that can be used again in other work that is being created in 3D modelling software and I want to further the design by bringing it to life with textures, or import into a game engine to make it game art for a future portfolio.
The first example of problems that I had encountered was around halfway to three-quarters the way through the assignment where I had realised that I had given myself too much work to do for the time scale given, I managed to solve this not so problematic occurrence by heading back and updating my plan to focus on one element of my scene and refine to high detail .
Another problem that I had come across was in modelling software during an experiment of a pile of leaves which I had created from one texture piece, duplicated multiple times to look like they are laying on top of each other, after importing and applying them on a piece in Autodesk Maya, approaching the time to render out the scene to see the finish piece, that’s when the problem started, my render was black and white, which in a way wasn't a problem as it sprouted an idea for me as the black and white render shown how lighting would reflect on parts of the texture and wouldn't on the others, but closely looking through the render settings and adjusting, I got the render I wanted.
Thursday 26 May 2016
artist web address
Don Pham Artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/dpham81
Miguel Silva Artist
https://miguelsilva.artstation.com/
Mouhsine Adnani artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/mouhsine-adnani
Steve Bell artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/stevenbell
Andre Kieschnik artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/kieschnik
Ben Wilson artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/benwilson
Hugo Castano artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/hugo2k1
Sebastian vomvas artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/sebastianvomvas
Tobias Frank artist
https://www.artstation.com/artist/tec
Liam Evans
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