Sooo, Progress has been slow and steady since the midterm. A majority of my time was spent troubleshooting the aforementioned problem and eventually doing retopology. Currently my model has been retopped, and I am in the process of transferring details between my old high res mesh and the newly retopologized mesh. Retopology devoured a huge chunk of my time, now that it is finally completed I can pose and finish up my final render...

My main focus for the class so far has been the study of human anatomy.  I spent the first two weeks of the class studying the major muscle groups in the body. This entailed learning the different pieces and how all of the muscles flow together. The major insertion points, along with a few protruding sections of bone, all end up being the main landmarks on the body.   Once I completed the anatomy videos I...

I plan to produce at least 3 pieces to add to my portfolio during this class. The main focus of these pieces will be on modeling the human figure in order to expand my modeling portfolio. The first piece will be a roughly 3 week figure study. The only goal here will be to create an extremely accurate and beautiful representation of the human body that will work in a portfolio setting. This project...

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This piece was created using both Maya and Mudbox.  The base mesh for the sculpture was created within Maya and then imported into Mudbox for high res sculpti...

Croquis page.  This page contains all ten croquis from the beginning of one of our class sessions. Additional out of class drawing.  This is a self portrait done using charcoal and conte crayons. Skeleton Drawing.  Done using charcoal One of two Figure drawings from class.  Graphite pencil. Second figure drawing from class.  Graphite pencil.Figure/Character drawing.  Both drawings were sketched from...

This warrior has been an ongoing exploration in Mudbox that I have been working on.  The warrior is based on the story of Cu Chulainne, the legendary Celtic warrior.  The base models were created in Maya and imported into Mudbox.  This is the project so far.  Sculpting still needs to be finished and the model needs to be posed and then texture...

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Week 2 homework.  The high level egg was sculpted and textured in Mudbox.  Displacement and normal maps were then baked out of Mudbox and imported into Maya along with the base egg mesh.  When applied to the low level geometry they give the illusion of detail that is only attainable with hundreds of thousands of polygo...