Month: October 2024

28/10/2024

Modelling

This week I had to retopologise a face exported from ZBrush. Once the model was imported into Maya I made the object live and used the quad redraw tool to create polygons ontop of the existing mesh. While doing this I tried to create loops around the eyes and mouth so that the face will deform well when animated.

To add textures to an object in Maya I selected my object and created a new material, in this material I imported a image and set it as the base colour of the material. This applied it to the object.

To add a texture onto a model I first have to unwrap the UVs. Once the model is unwraped I can export the uv map and create a texture ontop of in in a software such as Photoshop. Then this texture can be applied to the model and will be mapped correctly.

Unreal Engine

Using the Unreal Engine Water Body plugin I can easily create body’s of water and rivers. these features and be shaped using splines and be further customized to create lakes and oceans.

21/10/2024

Nuke

This week I created a mask for a man running using the rotoscope node in Nuke. In this node I created shapes out of Bezier curves to create masks for certain parts of the body. After these shapes were made I then animated them using keyframes to keep the shapes ontop of the body.

14/10/2024

Modelling

This week I learned about more tools in zbrush such as Tools and Zphere. I added a head to my scene using the Tool feature then I added a body by deforming a sphere.

I used the Zphere tool to create a simple rabbit sculpt.

7/10/2024

Modelling

This week I created a simple character in Zbrush. I created this character by starting with a sphere then sculpting it with the drag and dam standard tools.

I was tasked to create a low poly animal in Maya, for my animal I decided to create and Oarfish. To create my low poly fish I started with a cube and extruded and scaled it to match my reference image.

Once I had the basic shape of the fish I added some loops and made the model thinner at the top and bottom to give it a more natural shape. Then I added extruded some planes to create the fins and other details of the fish.

Finally to give the fish a more fluid shape I used a lattice deform to easily position it.