Street View, Colour Schemes and Finished Maya Model



Due to illness I have been unable to post here recently, however I will recap on the work I managed to do in the past 2 weeks. Firstly, I have been developing upon my 'street view' of the South Asian fantasy world. I believe in the terms 'South Asian' and 'fantasy' there is a heavy emphasis on the colour used in order to make these terms believable. Fantasy is to push the boundaries of reality into the surreal, and I believe it is my role to create a convincing fantasy to the viewer. I have started to do this with the use of language on signage (in this particular image I am using Urdu, a language I know and therefore can verify its meaning). As an additional note, I wish to continue with this 'street view' perspective and create different environments of my fantasy world which incorporate class structure (wealthy/poor) reflected in its different architectural styles, clothing, food etc.





I have started on my colour study test by separating colour schemes into a binary architectural system of 'european' and 'asian' for ease so to reduce the number of choices for the testers to pick (getting people to identify a particular country's architecture may be too difficult/time-consuming). Also, this will help clarify my notion that people subscribe vague notions of culture to environments based on a number of factors (with colour being the factor I am using). I hope from doing this that I can find out 1. whether my colour coding into styles was right and 2. how to use colour as a major component in influencing the environment. I am looking forward to creating the images in the next week or so.

 With the additional time to catch up on work, I was able to work on Maya a lot more. This time I managed to complete the weapon model on Maya as seen below. From doing this activity I came to realise some limitations of 3D modelling as there were times when I had to move away from the concept art reference in order to create a believable model. From this I was able to understand that when finalising concept art I should be conscious of whether the design, although may look good in 2D, can be modelled in 3D.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Literature review afterthoughts

Having spent the past 2 weeks drafting my literature review for my Design Research module, I managed to explore my research area through academic texts. I found that there were a few people who had at least researched into areas relating to my own and it felt encouraging to know that more people than I realised cared about the same issues. My research question is:  How can South Asian representation be authentically implemented in fantasy video games? Although I thoroughly enjoyed reading the relevant texts I chose to compare and critique, writing the review itself was an uphill struggle. I found that I had lots of points to make but not all of them relevant to my research question, and initially I had over 4000 words of notes (the word limit being 2000). Editing was therefore my worse nightmare. Also, there were a few times I contemplated changing my research question so I could write about a different topic I was interested in (!) I won't go into that too much... Overall,...
Read more

Jewellery mage development

Image
After developing the designs for the embroidery fighters, I went back to jewellery to try to finalise the mage look. I felt that out of all my designs, this was the most developed so I found it fairly straightforward to concept a 'final' design.  In the end I made a few changes which I felt suited the character more. Tasking my advice from the previous post, I tried to formulate a more specific brief for myself so that my character design decisions would be more informed. My brief was: - source of magic power comes from the metal forged into jewellery - magic is heat/electricity (as metal conducts these) - different jewellery pieces produce different forms of heat magic - no embroidery on clothing as rival(?) group uses that as magic source - forces clothing to be simplified, could consider digital prints (juxtaposed with embroidery group who avoid jewellery and wear embroidered clothing) - jewellery group (still needs a name) in society push for technological advances ...
Read more

3D Character Modelling

Image
After researching the essential/desirable skills for a concept artist in gaming, I found that although 2D skills were necessary, a lot of jobs required knowledge of a 3D modelling software. From my experience in architecture I had previously used Maya to create a mask for building forms, therefore I've chosen to improve my modelling skills in Maya and hopefully by the end of year have a good level of proficiency in it.  From watching the tutorials Josh sent me, I started to model a weapon as a way to get familiar with the tools and create quick forms using a reference:  I have found it a lot easier than I expected to get used to the manipulation tools. This method starts with a form most similar to the shape you want (in this case a cuboid) and manipulating vertexes to follow the reference image. This is pretty similar to how I created my building forms in my architecture degree but whereas I self-taught myself back then, I found it helpful to watch the tutoria...
Read more