Category: Advanced & Experimental

When looking back over this terms group project I can see that I have learned a lot of new things and thus gained a lot of experience. For this project I had taken on the role of Look Dev Artist and the shared role of the CG Lead, Shared together with Martyna who also was the CG Generalist (we had devided the role in her doing more for the lighting work and me taking on the role to overlook all the other Look Dev Artist and helping maintain the same look (communication)). This was a big task but something I would happily take a step in. during the project I have learned many different things like communucation, lead a group, rendering with passes and mostly also a start on learning how to create my own type of texture in substance.

First I want to take a look at the role of a Look Dev Artist, a Look Dev artist has the responsibilities to design, model and texture the specific assets that have been assigned to each individual. Our project theme was decided at the start, Steampunk, and had led me as a Look Dev Artist to do some insight on the specific look of a Steampunk aesthetic. I had 3 different models to make, a lamp, a chair and a couch. While taking in different inspiration I had realized that when creating the assets I had maintain a specific style to implement in all three of my assets. This was because I had looked at the models I made and tried to implement some of the parts in each model. This was all the models maintained their aesthetic and had a good steampunk look. Although through out the modelingand texturing process I had some trial and error Iam very pleased with the result aswell as all the new tools I had learned like better skill in modeling in maya, doing proper UV’s and learning the basics in Substance painter.

I also took on a leading role for the Look Dev Artist, due to this process I had realized that I was able to keep up with everybody work and make sure everybody in the team was maintaining the style that we had chosen. For this I had to make sure everybody was up to date on how everything should be looking. I had created a padlet on where everybody could post there references and process. An important part was also that we as CG Leads had chosen the color pallet in which everybody should stay. Looking back on the role of CG Lead it was a very stressful experience but also a big learning experience. As a CG lead that is more on the communicative side you have to stay in contact with all of your team members and be aware of everybody’s process as well as the CG generalist her process. I managed to be very organised during this process even though there are of course trial and errors.

Term 3

this is the final work of the steampunk group project

Since our video was almost done we had to create some background noises for in our Steampunk project. Eddy had found some sounds and I had added some extra sounds to it and then I sat down with a version of our scene to create the noises that would display in the area. I had done this in premiere pro since I am slightly aware of how to work with the audios in this program.

For the audio I decided to go with some elements in the scene and used some audio for these elements. For example, we have a clock in the scene so you can hear the clock ticking, we have the hologram which would give off a hologram kind of sound and further in the scene you have a radio, this made me think of having some piano/jazz like music playing and also the Lamp I made had flickering lights which would give off a flickering ‘broken’ sound.

Other then these sounds I implemented some background noises like steam and machine workers as well as that when you get closer to the window you can hear the ‘space ambiance’ from outside.

Look Dev Artist

As a look dev artist I had created all my assets, Mariana had send us a Template scene where we could present our work in our Breakdown (showreel video) I had used this template also to put my specific assets together since they fit well together as a nice set up, as shown in the video below.

CG Lead

Also as a CG Lead this was the final stretch. over the next few weeks I will be mainly busy with helping Martyna (CG generalist) out with the final details and pushing out the renders. This will still be with some trial and errors but so far we are on schedual

Everybody from my team had done their assets and send them to Martyna or me so we could place them in the scene.

Below you can see the schedule we have for the last few weeks. This includes the DMP (matte painting) and the last Compositing work. Which we had discussed with Gonzalo a few points to improve our scene in total.