Thursday, February 21, 2013

Slight Change in Plan

So i completely forgot to factor in all the tutorial videos i have to watch in the plan from the first post. With this in mind i am moving what was supposed to be done this week to next week. This week is rather a boring post since i chose to focus on watching through the tutorials to see what they could offer.

The tutorials i am using right now are the following, and the dates i hope to have them finished by.

Digital Tutors - Infiltrator Full Production Pipeline
   I have watched videos up to Rigging. I intend to watch all the rigging by next Thursday.
Digital Tutors - Transforming Robot Full Production Pipeline
   I have watched up to rigging. I intend to watch the rigging by next Thursday.
Digital Tutors - Advanced Character Rigging in Maya
  Begun to watch. Going to finish by week 6.
Digital Tutors - Enhanced IK Animal Rigging
  Started to skim over these to see what i might be able to incorporate into the future rig, since only the back      legs are animalistic. Going to finish by Week 6.
Eat3D Live Action and CG 1-4
  Not going to start watching these four sets until week 7/8.

That's all for this week.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Plan

Being that I am a Generalist, it was suggested that i do a small project to show the entire production pipeline.
Here is the intended schedule that may be subject to change throughout the semester.

feb        3-9        week 2 Modeling
feb       10-16     week 3 Modeling
feb       17-23     week 4 Modeling, UV, Textures
feb/mar 24- 2     week 5  Textures, Rigging
mar       3-9        week 6  Rigging
mar       10-16    week 7  Rigging
mar       17-23    week 8  Match Moving
mar       24-30    week 9  Match Moving
mar/apr 31-6      week 10 Animation
apr        7-13      week 11 Animation
apr        14-20    week 12 Lighting and Rendering
apr        21-27    week 13 Lighting and Rendering
apr/may 28-4      week 14 Compositing
may       5-11      week 15 Compositing
may      12-18     finals

As seen by the Schedule above concept art is not included as a part of my current pipeline. Since I am beginning a week and a half behind schedule a friend has given me permission to use her concept of the creature below.


Stalker by Danielle DeMartini

Photos/video of the environment/scene that this creature will be added into will be posted as soon as I am able to find an appropriate environment. Hopefully somewhere in the next couple weeks.