Final character UV - Scott

Background Concept Update

Posted by Mike Rodrigues de Melo

Up to date with where we are with our character so far, making sure to put in details that other group members have contributed. - James

Posted by Cameron Keeler

whilst iv'e been waiting for the UV I have been working on the presentation work, the image below is a brake down of the 20 minutes that we have and who could say what, we each have 5 minutes to talk and I have listed the areas that each person might want to cover during their time. These aren't final as they haven't been discussed but are at least a starting point.

Final update before finished UV - Scott

Final update with the character UV progress, stitching together the last final bits of detail to the legs and the head then a cylindrical mapping of the tail and all of it will be ready to be tested with rigging with mike and textured by cameron

Background Concept for Render

Rough sketch

Posted by Mike Rodrigues de Melo.

Further work on the concept pages, starting to move toward talking about the colour theory and modelling of the character. - James Penhallurick

Posted by Cameron Keeler

I am currently working on a power point for our presentation of our character. I am also currently researching other methods of presenting the character, one that I thought could be interesting is to get a small book printed on a website called blurb.

Updated character - Scott

The above images show the updated character, I altered the character by separating the edge loops apart from one another to create more space between the large clusters of edges. This updated character is the one I've now moved into UV unwrapping and will pass onto Cameron for texturing.

Weight Painting Video Reference Tutorial

Posted by Mike Rodrigues de Melo.

Examples of pages with finished text, explaining the work shown and how we proceeded as a group.

posted by Cameron Keeler

the image below is the UV so far

DragonFly Rigging

Tutorial:

Updated UV unwrap - Scott

This is the updated uv unwrap, which i had to alter because parts of the body were too small to texture.

Furthur page layouts, text bodies to be discussed and collaborated between the group - James Penhallurick

Sample page of the Character Pack for presenting our character and the work that we have created for it so far - James Penhallurick

UV unwrap - Scott

posted by Cameron Keeler

For the next part of the project I have been researching lighting rigs and camera rigs for the dragonfly model. The links below are videos that I have looked at for research.

Lighting Rig

Lighting

Following the object using cameras

Camera Rig

James Penhallurick - Finished Model ready for UV unwrapping

Modelling Update

Head Update 2

Wings

Posted by Mike R. de Melo

Posted by Cameron Keeler

We discussed in the group that the character needed a small scene to be placed in, so the images below are some renders of what I have done so far. 

UV unwraps of dragonflies body and tail - Scott

The two examples of the dragonflies abdomen and thoraxes UV unwrap

Screenshot of Dragonfly Body - James Penhallurick

Movement of the Wings of a Dragonfly - Scott

Video reference of a dragonfly beginning its flight.

Dragonfly Rig Example - Scott

An example of a dragonfly rig in Maya.

Dragonfly movement reference - Scott

Reference of a dragonfly moving in slow motion, showing how its wings move and how it takes off.

Rigging Insects - Scott

An example video of an insect rig in Maya

Head Modelling

Posted by Mike Rodrigues de Melo

posted by Cameron Keeler

final design and final colour scheme

now that we have picked the final colour scheme and design the next step for me and Scott is to design the textures and gather the resources needed for them whilst James and Mike start the modelling.

 James Penhallurick - Perspective views

posted by Cameron and Scott

After gaining feedback from our lecturer and agreeing that our character was too humanoid we researched other areas to make it more insect like. These are some of the images that we used as research for the new robotics.