Week Summary - BA3a Week 11

3D Model Project

I spent most of this week retopologising the lower sections of the coat; they're not the cleanest topologically but I feel like I'm running out of time and would rather have a finished model than a perfect one. I've used a mix of Maya's quad draw tool, deleting faces from remeshed exports using the 'select by angle' tool and using parts of my original meshes to try to get this done as quickly as possible.

For the more organic sections, I've opted to simply use zremesher as I think it will give a quick and reasonably clean result. The process involved a lot of trial and error and I'm still trying to refine my polypaint weighting and remesher guide setup to give me the best result possible.

I will likely do a few more iterations of retopologising to try to get the best result possible.

Wax Model

Adding more surface-level muscles this week, I had some problems with pieces not attaching properly and falling off under their own weight, but I've put them back on and am hoping they stay on this time.

Task

No Task

Guest Lecture

We received a guest lecture from Jake Gumbleton this week which featured an opportunity to receive critique on our work - I submitted this composition exercise from a few weeks ago.

Aside from the fact that the piece could obviously be more tightly rendered, I also received some critique on my colour choices, specifically that they are too literal and could be more carefully chosen to to create harmony in the piece rather than simply being the colour of the object. It's something I hadn't really noticed before in my work and plan to take care of in future pieces as best I can. I was also advised that the boat on the right side of the image breaks up the flow of the composition somewhat, which I also agree with, although I was somewhat aiming for this to try to add some tension to the image. All in all it was a very informative and interesting lecture, and gave a lot of insight into what working in the industry is actually like and what kind of skills I need to be developing to give me the best chances of finding work after graduation.