Lesson: Splines

This week, our tutor taught us how to use Splines. It is a very powerful tool that will really save me significant amount of time when creating 'holed assets', e.g., windows, and doors.

Room Concept Work! Update 2

Now that I had my concept nailed, I can now relax a bit and focus on the technical aspect of the concept. First, I am going to focus on the value and lighting.

After hours of work, I now have this:

Character Concept Update 1

Today I focused on having a final design for my character. Here are the designs I made:

My design evolution.

First of all, it's not a jedi! He is wearing a japanese samurai coat (don't know what it's called).

UV and Material Mapping

Today, I had a bit of a refresher on UV and Material Mapping. With some experience with Autodesk Maya, I did not find much problem in 3ds aside from the buttons not where they I expect them to be!

Anyways, here is my work:

My final render and my workarea in 3ds Max.

Here's the spaggetti tree as I would call it.

Room Concept Work! Update

Using my mood boards (which I showed in my first 'Room Concept Work' entry) I have created some designs that I continue to evolve to get the final design that I am going to be happy with.

Here are some of my rough sketches:

Then, After 5 hours of evolving my design I finally got what I had in mind. (I know, I am still to slow in the process, but I'll get there!)

This is exactly what I had in mind, and I am very pleased about it.

Character Concept

Now that I have a plan on how to create my room, I will start getting ideas for my character.

This is the references I have chosen:

Japanese and Korean full armour and some Mediveal knight helmets added to the mix.

And here is my modular models ready to be dressed.

Room Concept Work!

As we are given a task to create our 3D room, I started putting the hours on my room concept. I am thinking of going for a Sci-Fi Asian environment.




These are the mood boards I'm going to be referring to:

Traditional and modern Japanese architecture

My lighting mood board

Asian castles and a Sci-fi city

Kitchen/Dining moodboard