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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London Court Previs Model

By James Ball

When our group went to scout out our locations for the pre-vis stage of our group project we worked out that the London Court Model could be broken down into simple blocks.

The list is a follows.

• North Tower
• South Tower
• LC Upper Left
• LC Upper Right
• LC Lower Left
• LC Lower Right
• Floor Plane
• Left Fence
• Right Fence

By organising the model in this way it cut down  on the modeling time and it allows for more dynamic camera angles for we can simply  hide all of the buildings on the right side and to shoot from the right and the same goes for the left.

To start out I first modeled up just one building section. This could then be copied across and moved down to match up with the existing ground plane then the left side could be copied over and mirrored for the right side. I repeated the same process for the fence and the Towers as well.

I finished it off and it didn’t quite feel right. So I took a little bit of artistic license and stretched all of the buildings upward and this gave me the creepy, claustrophobic vibe I was going for and below you see the final result. 

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BITEY!

By James Ball

This weeks blog Post is going to be a little briefer than usual. I got to go to another talk by Susan Erokan on Monday. This time organised by my UNI, so that was cool. Got to learn the manual mode on the Canon 600D’s and do a bit of photography. Our class also got an introduction the the program Mudbox. For CIU this week we learnt all about Semiotics and we also got placed into the teams we would be in for our final CIU task.

Image 1: Bitey

On the homework face of things, I haven't gotten much done due to some pressing close to home family issues. So I’m sorry to say this but no coloured in 3D Face mask this week. Although I did find this interesting site called Bitey.com which is the home site for ex Disney animator Adam Philips located in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. He is the is the Person behind the Flash animation classic The Last of the Dashkin with the first episode airing in 2004 on Newgrounds.com. in my research on this guy I also found an Artist Interview by Draw With Jazza  and you can view it here.

Also this crazy shit came out this week . . . ENJOY!

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Reference

Image 1: Bitey, Retrieved on 11/10/2015 from - http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/brackenwood/images/2/2e/Bitey.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091229182337

Mingling with “SHIENCE”!

By James Ball

SO how do I start this week's Blog Post? . . . Yes That Will Work . . .  BLAM! Shiny Creepy Hollow Face!

https://skfb.ly/HzpH

Next week Blog post will will been even more creepier when I have an actual texture on.

So . . . Quixle. A bit of advice to anyone buying this piece of lovely software in Australia the pricing they have on their site is in American Dollars and not Australian Dollars. so the final price ended up being about $74 Australian. This is also a software that is still in development and still has a couple of bugs that need fixing but that aside, this is a powerful program for what it is and how fast you can ic tan produce a PBR Rendered object. I still have a whole lot more to learn about this program and in the not too distant future it look like there is a massive up update coming. Speaking of Massive, I would also love to try out and play around with that software one day, you know, MASSIVE the software they used to create the armies in Lord of the Rings. 

 Image 1: Massive Rendered Crowd

For the last week it has been fixing up and correcting documentation and getting down to creating concept art for our group assignment in ANI210 and getting it all compiled together for monday. Also  I’m sorry but we’ve unofficially decided to keep a veil of secrecy on this artwork and anything associated with “Project Bunri” under wraps till further notice. Like a real Game or Design Company would. Give it a couple of weeks maybe.

On Thursday evening I went along to a Q&A Session with Robert Stephenson one of my class mate’s and listened to Dreamworks Studio Rep Susan Erokan (previously Production Supervisor for Character Animation at Dreamworks Animation for 12 years) that was a very informative evening and what was great about it was afterwards talking and mingling with not only Susan but also Aaron Welch of Red Bird Creative Perth and friends from the Trimester ahead of me.

About a hour after I posted my Blog post last week I went to see the Ridley Scott Film adaptation of The Martian. Great movie, and they really Science the Shit out of it. If you haven’t read the book then go listen to the audio copy illegally here and remember you didn’t see this from me.

So this is some NASA news that they really didn’t make a BIG announcement for like they did with the Flowing Water on  Mars thing.  Red Water Ice and Blue Atmosphere on Pluto. NASA, Never A Straight Answer. in their defence however they did have an article about it on the front page of there website, so yeh.

 Image 2: global mosaic of pluto in true colour

Finally if you’re one of the few regular reader I have on my blog you may have noticed a layout change. I’m going to roll with it for a little while I think but do let me know what you think. Also a shameless Plug must also go to my website which I have recently given a facelift and Mobile interactivity you can view it here. http://jaegerfruit.com/

And no I’m not going to make anyone else a website I’ve already spent too long making it look the way it is. But that’s enough ranting for one blog post.

So as always, this is Ballzy247 signing out.

References

Image 1: Massive Rendered Crowd, Retrieved on 11/10/2015 from - http://massivesoftware.com/images/wcm-rtr-agents.jpg

Image 2: global mosaic of pluto in true colour Retrieved on 11/10/2015 from - https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/global-mosaic-of-pluto-in-true-color.jpg