please dont say anything about my UVs, I'm self conscious. Dude is 90% done. Staff 60%. Idol 50%. Might give him some type of head dress there is also a Loin Cloth that is 0% done on him now.

GREAT ARTICLE TO REFERENCE

http://www.awn.com/articles/advice/career-coach-dumb-stuff-people-do

Good stuff and words to live by

Cooley wk1

I've been waiting over 24hrs for a photo hosting site to come off maintenance so I'd have more than a little thumbnail to work with, but thats not seeming likely. Anyway, here is what i've accomplished over the week for my goblin:

The goblin is sitting at 4980 and the little scene is 5500

Nathalie Update

This week is about optimization for me. Especially with the Twisted Tales project, their is a serious frame rate issue which means I need to clean up the scene to make sure there isn't any unnecessary assets. I decided that since I will only be screen shooting part of the level I would eliminate anything we didn't see to help with the fps. I am having a real time though deciding how to showcase my work on Headcase, should I show parts of each level or just one level? I managed the animation team,l created the Microsoft Project files and helped with the excel spreadsheets... It is a tricky scenario. For Pogo, the simple game in Unity, I'll be working on fixing some of the art for the level and animation.

As for my internship work, I talked with the guys from DS3 and when the game comes out I can use video from the game but since the submission for the demo reel is that week, I plan to have some temp videos then put in more actual footage for port show. The Unannounced stuff I worked on for New Vegas is a Tricky story, when it is announced it will be up for further negotiation but at the moment it looks like I will only be able to use some screenshots at most at the moment.

All in all, I know what I want to put in my demo reel and for week 3 I will have a rough cut of my demo reel all ready to be looked at. I'll be focusing on getting all getting all the footage in class, although I will want to discuss what to do with Headcase as a top priority. I have also done revisions to my LinkedIn Page, resume and cover letter this week as well since I have already started applying for jobs.

Edit: Instead of a blog why not create a forum? That way it is more organized . It is super simple and I can help you create it if you like. :)

So here is the selection of pieces for my demo reel.

This piece is an intended re-imagining of the character "Jet" from "Avatar: The Last Airbender".

He is going to be a little bit older (and alive obv...) and wear a little more armor than in the series. Currently he is in need of some topology cleanup, I'm going to take his polys down a lot by doing a textured face rather than the current head that is modeled for animation. Then an anime-ish diffuse texture.

This piece is a basilisk monster of my own creation. It is a large slow monster. I would prefer to keep this character at reasonably low specs but it may very well look nice with a simple normal map to sell the bumpy leather scaly skin.

My next piece is a western-style character developed under my internship. Sculpt needs tweaking and a normal map needs to be baked onto the game-res model. Needs diffuse and specular maps. Not pictured due to NDA. The character is approximately 6000 triangles with 1024 texture space per map (diff, norm, spec).

 The next two pieces are characters made for the iphone game "cowboys vs zombies" from tallchair inc. These characters did not make the final cut but are rad nonetheless. Both are my original character designs, the boney-bandito and the fiddlin' devil. Bandito cuts in under 1000 tris and the devil is under 1200. Both feature a 256 diffuse map unlit.

This last piece is my most recent personal project. It's my own Sweeney Todd. The character is 5958 Triangles and comes with a straight edge razor sporting a 256 diffuse map. The Character comprises three maps total. Currently a 1024 diffuse on the body. 1024 diffuse on the head and a 512 map for hair alphas (eyebrows, chops. and hair). If I alloted a 2048 budget overall for the character I could accompany each diffuse map(character and prop(s)) with a specular and have two 256 maps leftover.

Here are some other characters that have not yet made the cut but if time allows/requires could be featured on the reel with some work. 

I got a few arms started...this is the first one thats working...

   Default position

Elongated

  Bent and clenched fist

Viking Camp/ Diorama Bases

I've almost finished the base for the Viking Camp diorama. It's entirely a combination of layered shaders and vertex painting to blend textures at the moment. I'll be adding more supplementary rock shards in the lava and the camp elements are going to be placed around once they are ready. I was debating on adding snow like the original scene had, but I think it blends better with the dark soil and moss instead.

The last one is the base for the City Props scene so far. It's going to be some blacktop pavement with a manhole cover and a sidewalk once I get to sculpting it.