2D Poke-Portraits & Squirtle Battle Animation changes

 This week I had to go back into squirtle animations and nerf his movement a bit so it wasn't so extreme during battles. I had to do this because we have a limited battle space.

I also completed two of the last pokemon portraits for our credit sequence!

Oak Animations

 This Sprint I focused on brushing up the oak animations on the new rig.

Squirtle Battle Animations

 This sprint I worked on three squirtle battle animations. I love the way they turned out!

Sudowoodo Dance and Bulbasaur Attack Animations

 This week I did the only animation for Sudowoodo that we'll have, his dance. I also did Bulbasaur's attack, razor leaf. He almost has all the final passes on his animations!

Charmander Animations on Updated Rig

This sprint I worked on updated versions of charmander's attack and player-interaction animations.

Professor Animations for Pokemon VR

 This week I focused on pushing out the first proxies of some animations that will hopefully make certain aspects of our VR experience easier to understand! I created a wave to get the player's attention, and a point to indicate the player should approach and do something nearby. The mixamo rig breaks when the elbow is bent because of auto-weight-painting, but we hope to fix that as soon as the professor's rig is finalized.

Common Art Priest Proxy and Obj Concept

 This week I was originally waiting on storyboard concepts so I could paint them, but instead was redirected into sculpting and subsequently generating a proxy of the priest for the game presentation. I did still generate and render a concept for our stained glass assets. Included a video demonstrating the current state of the project.

Arcade Cabinet Textures

 This week I put the final touches on my arcade cabinet model. It was a pain to paint every single panel, but its absolutely worth it!

Arcade Cabinet Part 1

 This week we're starting a modeling project that'll take us through the pipeline start to finish! Exciting. Here's what I have so far. I rendered part of it in ue5 for fun, and included a pic of the wireframe and reference.

2D Color Study & Use of Basic Lighting

This week we were tasked with looking at 3-point lighting and then rendering it ourselves. The top is my reference, the bottom is my painting! 

UE5 Animation Blueprints & Render

 This week we got to take our maya scenes into UE5 and really experiment with our rendering and animation capabilities in the engine. It was fun learning something new!

Hierarchy & Abstract Scene

This week we looked at managing models and pieces with hierarchies. This is my abstract scene, of some sort of desert or forest ranch, with little abstract horses. I think they're cute as heck!

We also worked with UE5 lighting, which was super fun! Here's some pics of that. I chose the colors of the Jedi and the Sith, because I think they jive well.

I included a playblast of the movement of the pieces, made doable by the hierarchies, for a crane. Below, I've also included a sample of hierarchies for my scene (above).

Topology Basics & Kitbashing

    This week we were tasked with taking a robot model our professor provided and turning into something standalone, with a callback to the original. I took the small upright robot and turned it into a robot corgi!

    The rest of these images are from the different modeling techniques and topology basic videos, it was really interesting to learn everything!

Animation - Move it!

 Here's the playblast of my first animation here! I got some feedback to exaggerate everything, and I'm excited to use that feedback in our next assignment. Next one is going to be fixing my ball bounce.

Update: Shape Building, Render Edit

Edit: I figured out what was going wrong and fixed it, I missed a few value changes and such but I've got more of an understanding on how rendering works!

So we're getting there.

I need to focus more on the rendering; to be honest the light setup and figuring out small problems rendering overwhelmed me completely. I couldn't get the renders to work the way I want to, and I'm sure it's some setting I am forgetting; for now, I'm going to re-watch the rendering video and hopefully update with a better render!