Sunday, April 6, 2014
Here is a critique on myself:
For starters I had many problems that i should have gotten help with sooner so that got me behind on the point of where I want to be on my model by today. I wanted a full body with tail and ears on head (not detailed).
The topology - I think is alright over all.
Realistic - Work in progress model... From what I have so far it does have a dog like look and feel so far.
Detail - For the model is in progress there is not much rendered detail and most of that will be in the face, which what I am going to be working on last.
I am behind on where I should be at this point. I feel that the full body should have been done tail and head and I should have been working on rendering out the detail in the body and face.
But since this is the first time I have worked with this program and I am just learning it on my own basically It has been slow going.
I feel though that I have actually accomplished a lot the last few times i have been working on my model because I had solved some of my issues on my own by tinkering around. Once finding the solution this process I figured out helped me work farther along on a slightly quicker pace. It would help me also, quiet drastically probably, if I would set hot keys instead of scrolling through menus. A need to get done.
For starters I had many problems that i should have gotten help with sooner so that got me behind on the point of where I want to be on my model by today. I wanted a full body with tail and ears on head (not detailed).
The topology - I think is alright over all.
Realistic - Work in progress model... From what I have so far it does have a dog like look and feel so far.
Detail - For the model is in progress there is not much rendered detail and most of that will be in the face, which what I am going to be working on last.
I am behind on where I should be at this point. I feel that the full body should have been done tail and head and I should have been working on rendering out the detail in the body and face.
But since this is the first time I have worked with this program and I am just learning it on my own basically It has been slow going.
I feel though that I have actually accomplished a lot the last few times i have been working on my model because I had solved some of my issues on my own by tinkering around. Once finding the solution this process I figured out helped me work farther along on a slightly quicker pace. It would help me also, quiet drastically probably, if I would set hot keys instead of scrolling through menus. A need to get done.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Artist's
I had a chance along side five other young artists to give a speech about my work. I however do not want to speak about my work but the others. Going through almost four years of the same classes with these students we still learn something new about them and their work all the time. Amanda Scott, Blane Seibert, Jake Miller, Rose Thornhill, and Kimi Smart along with myself gave a public presentation on Friday March 28th aobut our life and work.
Rose Thornhill, her insprirations are based a lot off of Manga based magazines and cartoons and films. She is also a creative writer and great illustrator. She has written several of her own novels and made her own illustrations for her characters. She has a very imaginative mind. The illustrations were in character designs consisting of turn arounds and expressions. She also made a short comic of her story and she then made gif's. Her works are very imaginative and has a very anime look and feel to it. She grew up a good part of her life with out her parents and moved around a lot so art was her way of dealing that.
Jake Miller, his work is based on western and steampunk mostly. His inspirations were on the movies of our child hood like lion king, land before time, hercules, and so on. His interest lies mostly in the heroic figure and monsters, Godzilla is a favorite. He has created some scenes of the hero figure coming to same the "scene" and or the impossible odds of the hero and a really freakishly huge "monster".
Blane Seibert is a huge snowboarding fan. He and his friend has a great dream of owning their very own snowboarding business some day. Blane designs his own designs for snowboards and skateboards, and other kinds of boards. His big inspiration is based on the burton company which is the company that...yes you guessed it....designs snowboards. Blane has learned that designing is not as easy as may seem because the shape of the board is not an easy shape to design on.
Kimi Smart is a ceramics major. She is only artist in the group that was not a commercial art major. Kimi makes pots based off of her native american heritage. Her grandmother is full (i think) cherokee and wore the clothes, had all the blankets and created the jewelery with turquise. Kimi embraces her native american heritage and shows that in her pots. She has created pots that have native patterns, bears, whirling shapes. She carves into her pots creating a depth and she recently started painting with acrylics. Kimi is currently in contact with a man that has, along with his wife, a ceramics shop. He creates big pots and his wife paints them. An amazing thing about Kimi is that she never touched clay till she attended PittState. She, along with her family had visited several European museums in her high schools year and she was just entranced by the art work of the master sculptures. She then decided that she wanted to do that.
Amanda Scott and I have very similar interests but are still very different. Amanda's work is on character designing and illustrations. She has a very cartoon-y and very silly appeal. She has created this crazy ostrich frank from a previous commercial art class and that started a series of ostriches that could be other ostriches with him at the insane asylum or are his alter egos. She leaves the relation up to the imagination of the viewer rather than giving you a really defined story. She works with Photoshop and iPad. SHe prefers to sketch up, ink, and watercolor.
Attending (participating) in these speeches you get to see the "behind the scenes" of the artist and learn more about their life. It really is an eye opener to listen to the artist talk about their work. It is like when that light comes on and your like oh i get it. It is also surprising if you learned next to these people and watched them develop for nearly four years and to then hear a more indepth past of them and their interest, inspirations and life.
Rose Thornhill, her insprirations are based a lot off of Manga based magazines and cartoons and films. She is also a creative writer and great illustrator. She has written several of her own novels and made her own illustrations for her characters. She has a very imaginative mind. The illustrations were in character designs consisting of turn arounds and expressions. She also made a short comic of her story and she then made gif's. Her works are very imaginative and has a very anime look and feel to it. She grew up a good part of her life with out her parents and moved around a lot so art was her way of dealing that.
Jake Miller, his work is based on western and steampunk mostly. His inspirations were on the movies of our child hood like lion king, land before time, hercules, and so on. His interest lies mostly in the heroic figure and monsters, Godzilla is a favorite. He has created some scenes of the hero figure coming to same the "scene" and or the impossible odds of the hero and a really freakishly huge "monster".
Blane Seibert is a huge snowboarding fan. He and his friend has a great dream of owning their very own snowboarding business some day. Blane designs his own designs for snowboards and skateboards, and other kinds of boards. His big inspiration is based on the burton company which is the company that...yes you guessed it....designs snowboards. Blane has learned that designing is not as easy as may seem because the shape of the board is not an easy shape to design on.
Kimi Smart is a ceramics major. She is only artist in the group that was not a commercial art major. Kimi makes pots based off of her native american heritage. Her grandmother is full (i think) cherokee and wore the clothes, had all the blankets and created the jewelery with turquise. Kimi embraces her native american heritage and shows that in her pots. She has created pots that have native patterns, bears, whirling shapes. She carves into her pots creating a depth and she recently started painting with acrylics. Kimi is currently in contact with a man that has, along with his wife, a ceramics shop. He creates big pots and his wife paints them. An amazing thing about Kimi is that she never touched clay till she attended PittState. She, along with her family had visited several European museums in her high schools year and she was just entranced by the art work of the master sculptures. She then decided that she wanted to do that.
Amanda Scott and I have very similar interests but are still very different. Amanda's work is on character designing and illustrations. She has a very cartoon-y and very silly appeal. She has created this crazy ostrich frank from a previous commercial art class and that started a series of ostriches that could be other ostriches with him at the insane asylum or are his alter egos. She leaves the relation up to the imagination of the viewer rather than giving you a really defined story. She works with Photoshop and iPad. SHe prefers to sketch up, ink, and watercolor.
Attending (participating) in these speeches you get to see the "behind the scenes" of the artist and learn more about their life. It really is an eye opener to listen to the artist talk about their work. It is like when that light comes on and your like oh i get it. It is also surprising if you learned next to these people and watched them develop for nearly four years and to then hear a more indepth past of them and their interest, inspirations and life.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Learning this new program has been tough but pretty fun when I finally get the hang of things. I l finally finished the tutorial model of the helmet and have been watching other tutorials as I try to go along to make my own model. I am constantly getting caught on something and having to go back. I am only able to go back so far and sometimes its not far enough so I have to start over. This is what I am working on now. I am trying to get better straight on shots from the front and side of my dog but I figured for now I could use these just to get a start on the body shape.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
I have been getting help from one who works with Maya and he has been helping find where to look for tutorials and if i have a problem he is pretty much right there. Anyway. I started following an example lesson with AutoDesk Maya. The lesson is based simply to show me the basics and how to use the tools. I'm slowly working my way through Maya creating this helmet...keep in mind I have never done anything like this of the sort. SO the process right now is really slow.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)