30th April 2015

Today I encountered some issues on the arms of my character, which I had help from Craig to fix. I then started working on the parent space switching of the IK arms.

29th April 2015

Today I have got my rig really decent. I have started thinking more logically about my rig, and breaking out of this "list of rules" mentality.

I did the hands simply using the AC utilities create circle controllers tool, then did correct parenting of the controllers, and did parent constraints for them. I'm not going to both doing SDKs or connecting the nodes in any way, since that's just unnecessary effort.

I've decided that there's no point using any switches for the arms and legs, as IK will suffice fully for both, especially considering my character will be hanging from a trapeze, and parent space switching will be important.

I am using a reverse foot, with a very basic setup of heel, toe, and ball of foot rolls, and a heel/toe
pivot.

I have yet to add the parent space switches, stretchy arms/legs/spine, and facial controls.

I had some feedback from my peers today about the facial topology around the mouth, and advice on how I can make it better, so I will also take that into account before I start skinning. There's a 5-pole near the corner of the mouth that I need to remove.

This is the 5 pole that I have heard will cause poor deformation and other problems later down the line. 

28th April 2015

Today I've been continuing on the rigging. I have completed an IK arm, FK spine, IK leg, and reverse foot. The reverse foot has attributes for toe roll, ball roll, heel roll, heel pivot, and toe pivot. 

17th April 2015

Today I finished off my character model for the female character and I have begun rigging it up.

I'm warming back up to rigging, starting with basic IK.

16th April 2015

Today I pretty much finished the modelling of the male character. There's a little bit of tweaking on the hair, but Zack's going to do that while I'm rigging the female character.

15th April 2015

Today I had the treacherous task off butt topology. It took me quite some time to figure out how I was going to get it to work considering she's going to do the splits. I think a lot of what'll make it work is having SDK joints to push the mesh out, which I'll do during rigging.

I then made a start on the male character. I have got heaps done today, now that I'm warmed back up to modelling and using topology. 

14th April

Today I went over the facial topology, face shape, hair, and fur with Danielle's critiques and I'm really happy with how it's looking now.

13th April 2015

Today I have worked on the facial topology. I am redoing the eyes because they weren't really working properly with how I want it to work.

10th April 2015

Today I have refined the hell out of the facial topology. There's still a bunch more to tweak, but it's exponentially better than it was yesterday. The main thing for me to focus on now is the goggle shaped ring to go around the eyes for a frown, closing the eyelids over the eyes, and general smoothing of the model. 

9th April 2015

Today I have worked on modelling the female. I'm happy with how it's going, but I need to work on the face some more. It has fine topology but lacks femininity and style. 

8th April 2015

Today I have been working on a model. A lot of my time has been spent on hand topology but I have learned heaps and developed some new techniques, as well as learned some useful things about 8 sided geometry. The topology isn't done yet but it should be easy as tomorrow. 

7th April 2015

Today we revised some of our design choices as a team, specifically around the lion-esque beast. The design is looking fantastic now.

I reorganised a bunch of the folder structure for the group and made a solid start on the 3D production schedule as I wasn't happy with the way the organisation was going.

I also made a start on modelling the female character. This is what I have so far:

2nd April 2015

Today in the morning we had a talk about studio agreements with Oana and Frans. It was interesting to see it broken down into different categories. 

In the afternoon I worked on turning the notes that we took as a team into an agreement for us all to sign. 

We then had life drawing in the afternoon. My life drawings weren't quite up to my usual standard, but I still persisted and remained focused through it. I received some useful critiques from Anton. 

1st April 2015

Today I worked on the orthographic turnarounds for the female character in our short film.
I struggled a lot with the side view but managed to get it done.