Toolkit 2 - Progress Report

Pipeline 1: Jetpack Jones

Head Modelling

Head Modelling - Part 1: Preparation
Head Modelling - Part 2: Rough Blocking
Head Modelling - Part 3: Rough Blocking Continued
Head Modelling - Part 4: The Mouth
Head Modelling - Part 5: The Eye
Head Modelling - Part 6: The Nose
Head Modelling - Part 7: The Brow
Head Modelling - Part 8: The Ear & Neck
Head Modelling - Part 9: Sculpting& Cleanup
Head Modelling - Part 10: Creating Detailed Eyes
Head Modelling - Part 11: Adding a Throat
Head Modelling - Part 12: Eyebrows
Head Modelling - Part 13: Skull Cap
Head Modelling - Part 14: Snagging

Body Modelling

Body Modelling - Part 1: Torso Blocking
Body Modelling - Part 2: Torso & Arms
Body Modelling - Part 3: Legs & Pelvis
Body Modelling - Part 4: Legs & Boots
Body Modelling - Part 5: Gloved Hands
Body Modelling - Part 6: Hands & The Final Model

UV Layout
Skinning
Rigging
Facial Rigging 1
Facial Rigging 2
Facial Rigging 3
Texturing 
Final Turnarounds


Lighting and Rendering 2

Arnold - Part 1: In - Class Lesson

Arnold - Part 2: Sampling and Noise Reduction

Arnold - Part 3: Ray Depth

Arnold - Part 4: Linear Workflow [Lecture Only]

Arnold - Part 5: Maya Lights

Arnold - Part 6: Light Filters

Arnold - Part 7: Stylised Internal Lighting

Arnold - Part 8: HDR Images

Arnold - Part 9: Sky Dome Light

Arnold - Part 10: Stylised External Lighting

Arnold - Part 11: Standard Surface Shader

Arnold - Part 12: Toon Shader

Arnold - Part 13: Geometry Override Sets

Arnold - Part 14: Physical Sky Light

Arnold - Part 15: Advanced Internal Lighting (Portal Lights) [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 16: Mesh Lights

Arnold - Part 17: Ambient Occlusion

Arnold - Part 18: Photometric Lights

Arnold - Part 19: Depth of Feild

Arnold - Part 20: Fog (Legacy) & Atmosphere [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 21: Displacement [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 22: Sub Surface Scattering

Arnold - Part 23: AOV's & Render Passes [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 24: Stand Ins (Proxies)

Arnold - Part 25: Motion Blur [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 26: Caustics [No tutorial yet available]

Arnold - Part 27: Volumes [No tutorial yet available]

Infographics

Turning Junk into Gold
Development
Pirates of the Carribbean (Revised)

Mudbox

Mudbox Lessons HERE

Life drawing

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Week 19

Sculpting

Character Idea
Week 1
Week 2

Acting Lesson

Still need to upload

Character Production Bible

Production Bible

Weightlifting Animation

Weightlifter

Clay Sculpting - Week 2

Here I had roughly marked out the nose, mouth, and started filling out the neck.

The neck was done by marking with a tool where the left and right side of the neck should end underneath the head, this was done with the front and back, this created a rectangular shape under the head, I then blocked in the shape with clay and smoothed it into the head to get the final shape.

I did also experiment using this method to find where the ears would be, they were a lot further back than I had anticipated, so will be doing those fairly late on with the hair to prevent them being damaged.

I also started gauging where the eyes should be located on the head. This was done using a
compass to measure the distance between points on the face.

Now I started roughly shaping where the eye sockets should be and tidying up the shape of
 the head.

Here the eyes are shown inside the head. 

This was done by using a square shaped wire ended tool, the technique was to gently twist the tool straight into the head (like a corkscrew) rotate the tool a full 360 degrees then gently remove the tool, which will remove a cylindrical section of clay that was in the eye socket. This is done for both eyes.

Getting eyeballs to correct depth.

Next the eyeballs get added in, I had measured my eyeballs last week to be the same circumference as the eyeballs in the side profile of my character, however, Alan was concerned that the size of the eyeballs would interfere with the wire frame inside the head, so a single eyeball was cut in half to prevent any problems. I sanded the sharp edges and pulled back some of the clay around the eye-sockets to make it easier to insert the eyes (this got pushed back in place once the eyes were correctly placed). I also added a small piece of clay behind each eye before they got added to aid with fitting them in and when the eyeballs were being added I put them in at an angle (inserting the lower part of the eye) in first, this helped get them into place easier.

Adding clay at top and bottom of eyeballs to create eye shape.

Clay Sculpting - Week 3

Slowly adding details such as lips, eyelids and nostrils, also figuring out where eyebrows
would be naturally sitting.

Slowly cleaning up.

Life Drawing - Week 19

5-10 min Chalk and Charcoal Turnarounds

2x 20 min Chalk and Charcoal Drawing

40-50 min Chalk and Charcoal Drawing

Jetpack Jones (Body) - Week 4 - Legs & Boots

Clay Sculpting - Week 1

Adding the supporting wire and wrapping tightly with tinfoil to keep sculpture in place.

Carefully starting to add Super Sculpey.

Referring back to printout for scaling and proportion correctness.

Slowly continuing to build up and smooth into place.

Using Milliput to permanently fix tinfoil into pipe, and creating eyeballs for character.

Jetpack Jones (Body) - Part 3 - Legs & Pelvis

Life Drawing - Week 18

15-20 min Chalk Drawing 

15-20 min Chalk Drawing

1-3 min Chalk and Charcoal Sketches

20 min Chalk and Charcoal Face Study

30 min Chalk and Charcoal Drawing

Jetpack Jones (Body) - Part 2 - Torso & Arms

Clay Sculpting - Reference Images

This is the character that I would like to create for our sculpting classes. Character created by Anastacia Loginova and the name of the piece is Harajuku girl. Link found HERE.

Jetpack Jones (Body) - Part 1 - Torso Blocking

Life Drawing - Week 17

20-30 min Chalk and Charcoal Drawing

3-6 min Chalk Drawings (Page 1)

3-6 min Chalk Drawings (Page 2)

30-40 min Chalk Drawing - Face Study