Texturing

Doing a bit of texturing on the jukebox itself. Using a mix of edited photos and manual painting. Hopefully should work out okay. The above picture is WIP

I know I would be focusing on my dissertation this week, and I still am, but yesterday (Tuesday) I had a chat with Neil. He gave me some good feedback on the animatic. But he wanted to see more art and told me about colourscripts.

Basically blocking out scenes just with colour and shapes nothing too clean just to see how it works. As my drawing skills aren't great he liked the idea a friend suggested of just painting over the top of a render. I may have gone a little far with it and was slow and clean but i think it still works as great concept.

Dissertation

As my draft hand in for the dissertation is Friday and I have done little written work for it, I am focusing on that all this week so no modeling for me :(

Can't wait to get back to it, especially as there is still tons to do!!!

Jukebox UV Mapping

So I have spent all day today, unwrapping the UV's for my jukebox, Its been fairly easy, just time consuming and in the beginning look extremely complicated. I wish i took a screenshot of the before to show you how different it looks but basically it started with a ridiculous number of pieces (I'm talking a good couple of hundred separate shells).

Animation Testing

I've been working on more modeling of the jukebox, and also a quick test animation of the record moving and the turntable starting up to see how the first shot would look.

New studio

I'm starting to work in the studio alot more since moving to the Think Tank. I plan to come here more often than working at home, as it has better computers and nicer, bigger screens and ofcourse less distractions. Quite loving the working environment and professionalism.

I must of spent a good 2 and a bit hours on this section, which is quite unnerving.
I can't exactly work out why it took that long it just did. However other things seem to be quick to do so I guess it balances in some way. Anyway not much show but just thought I'd do a blog post for today.

More on interior

Just a bit more on the interior of the record player part. I think i will do a mock up of the actual scene for this part. It will be really quick to do but should be quite effective.

So one of the records would swing out, then turntable moves up taking the record with it and hits the needle to start playing. Using the below video as some reference.

More details and interior

Just a quick post to show some more details and starting on the interior work such as the records and the needle.