HALF WAY

By James Ball

Half Way – Created by James Ball

When you get to the Half Way point of a marathon run 2 things will come into your mind.

1.       “Yes I Finally Half Way!” and . . .

2.       “Oh wait; I still have the same amount of work to go . . . Shit!”

Right now I am happy that I am Half Way through my Course, but I’m also just starting to realise just how much work still has to be done before I can receive that Small piece of paper. In any case it’s good to be back and hitting the ground running. First week back and we have Personal animation projects to start making documentation and an art bible for and for CIU we started out with a lecture on Postmodernism and chose teams for our cross media projects.

Our Brief for our Personal Project is to create 2 animations with necessary audio from scratch. They have to be between 30-45 seconds long. Contain the same characters/be in the same world and one has to be in 2D and the other one has to be in 3D.

I have gone through several iterations of the story now to make it fit into the Time limit and the log line is as follows.

“A Vagabond is wandering through a Desert Wasteland When he comes across a new little friend”

To finish off this post I will leave you with the first colour test/concept art for my animation titled “VAGABOND”, Enjoy!

VAGABOND Concept 1 – Created by James Ball

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One More Week!

Cross Collaboration Complete

By James Ball

This week has been a little hectic, but in a good way. My cross collaboration is complete and all I have left is to fix up some textures on London Court. The final assets can be downloaded from the #15t3-gds210 group on slack.

Boing, Boing, Kangaroo, Boing, Boing!!!

Thank you for reading and as always, this is Ballzy247 signing out.

London Court Texturing.

By James Ball.

This week has been full on. I have managed to finish off 15 Diffuse, Normal and Specular texture maps created for my London Court Model.

Since I only have a limited amount of file space for the final model I used the ancient art of Cheating to cut as many corners as possible. I positioned the window uvs maps as follows meaning I only needed to make 1 texture map for all 3 Windows. I done a similar thing for most of the Roofs as well, with having the top ¾ of the texture be tiles and last ¼ be wood texture.

When it came time to do a texture test in sketchfab I was presented with this error message.

Pretty simple fix . . . Save out my textures as targa file . . . It’s never that simple. Went to do File Save as and . . .

No targa option available.

so after about an hour of searching online I found that all I had to do was this.

 I was very pissed at the fact that I wasted an hour of time to find out that the Image has to be in rgb and an 8 bits/Channel but you know what, I freaking worked. so I took a break and it was back to work converting all 45 tiff files into targa files.

The final hurdle I had to sleep on and figure out unwrapping the cone shaped roof with minimal warpage. sfjhbvisdbcliasbvlksb. Breathe in, calm down. I eventually went online to a forum on polycount http://polycount.com/discussion/61005/how-do-you-unwrap-a-cone-for-squar-tile-texture and I found my answers there. So after countless hour I finally had something I was happy with.

Lastly If you want to see the current version of London Court you can view it here.

https://skfb.ly/IOWp

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Cross Collaboration Begins

By James Ball

Not going to be a big post this week. I have officially made a start an the scenery assets for the Tri 3 Game students. and have a few more assets to go. Then I'll UV Unwrap the models and they are then read to be handed off to the games student's.

Thanks For reading and as always.

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It’s The Post Week 7 KPI Reflection Blog Post!

By James Ball.

Sorry for the Lack of Posts this Fortnight. There have been some family issues I’ve had to deal with like funerals and what have you., and I’ve kinda lost the motivation to get motivated. Great start to a KPI Reflection.

The last couple of days or so the same thing has been happening. I’ve gotten to the computer brought up my work to do and make an attempt to start. As I begun I would just stop and stare blankly at the screen for me what seemed like a couple of minutes. But I would then snap out of it and get back to my work I was doing and look at the time to see that 2 or 3 hours had gone by without me doing any any work. This has happened about 4 times Last week and it happened gain on the way home from Uni today. Was it aliens or just my Mental state right now . . . Who knows!?

In my KPI Interview with my lecturer There were 2 KPI’s that could really do with changing. For STRONG WORK ETHIC. I put down Room For Significant Improvement, how ever after the discussion with my lecturer I realized the I actually had a Successful Application of a Strong Work Ethic Due to getting stuff done on time and to a higher quality the the brief needed, so that was cool.

The Second CPI The my Lecturer and I talked about was ACTING AS A TEAM PLAYER. I put down Successful Application for this But My Lecturer Believes that there is Room For Significant Improvement. My Lecturer Went on to tell my That I need to participate more in group discussions than sitting, listening and observing on the sidelines so to speak.

There were a few others we discussed but they were the most important ones that could be changed or have room for significant improvement for.

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My top 10 movies for October 2015 over on Newgrounds!

By James Ball

So recently I was asked to participate in monthly voting for the top 10 Movies for the month of October over on Newgrounds. 

These animations I feel have earned their place on this list.

Please enjoy the Creepiness!



1 – Another

2 - The Finger Eater: Contract

3 - Jumo x Dopize – Quest

4 - NWAR: Left Standing

5 - Still Spineless: Crows

6 - Hopkins & Delaney LLP

7- Texting Short

8 - Fallen Angel: Trailer

9 - The Scarecrow

10 - Halloween Ghost House


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