interaction...done!

It took me all day today but my environment is finally finished!!!!! Just to get the rest of it into XNA and that will be me done for this week, exceot getting Brian to record my story, hopefully get that done tomorrow or friday!! I'm glad everything is coming together for this cause I was getting kinda worried!!

Advanced Visualisation

I finally got my model skinned!! Just a few tweeks to do, time seems to be going so fast so I need to get a shift on tomorrow and begin to animate!! Also she isnt bald anymore, yay!! Here is a screen grab as she stands now in wireframe with the skeleton.

Advanced Interaction..

I nearly have my environment finished in Maya now for Advanced Interaction, it's all importing into XNA properly as well so that's a bonus!! I have handpainted all my textures then scanned them into photoshop to add some finishing touches before applying them to my models. I still have to texture the buildings and do a proper texture for the hill but other than that its nearly done, OH and also I have to add more trees but that wont take long!

I really LOVE the trees I made, although you wont see them that well I really like the effect they have from the water colours I used.

Stressssed out!!! haha

Finally got my character rigged and started skinning my model today. I actually got along quite well but now I cant seem to move the leg/skirt on the left hand side properly so I'm taking a break! Got my blend shapes done though WOOHOO!

For personal project we are working on a game for Tern TV based on a book by Matthew Fitt called But N Ben A-Go-Go. Its based in 2090 where all the world has been flooded and the survivors of the flood live on floating parishes, collectively known as Port. If you're interested you can check it out on wikipedia. I've got a LOT of research to organise. I'm trying to design a Rennie Mckintosh style cafe for the medical centre so I'll get a picture of that up soon! In the mean time I have just been doing concept art pieces so far just some stuff on photoshop really, by the end of this its looking like I'll have about four sketchbooks at least. I'm experimenting with a lot of different techniques, like, sewing into the pages, printing of digital art and drawing on top of it and using different media. :)

Animation :)

Next is probably good to talk about Animation, I'm planning on doing a female rock singer who struts herstuff on stage and when she arrives at the microphone she forgets all her words. I have started modelling her in Maya although the head and body are still in seperate files and she is bald, I'm working on getting the hair done. I'm going to start rigging this weekend and hopefully will have finished skinning by the end of the week :)

sketch book...

Rosie's first Blog :)

I probably should have started this sooner than now, but here is where I'm going to post all my 3rd year Computer Arts work,just to keep up to speed with everything :)

So first would probly be good to start with interaction.

I want to create an interactive story book where you can travel around an environment and as you arrive at certain points in that environment part of a fairy tale will be told. I have chosen o use the Brother's Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel. Rapunzel was stolen at birth by an evil enchantress who locks her away in the tallest tower in all the land,with only one window and no doors. Once a day the evil enchantress would visit Rapunzel crying 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!' One day a prince walking through the forest came across the tower and perplexed as to howto enter cameupon the enchantress yelling up to Rapunzel. After that day the prince waited until the enchantress had left and climbed up Rapunzels long golden locks to visit his princess. This was all very nice until the enchantress found out about the princes escapades and waited for t he prince to arrive, the enchantress pushed the prince from the tower when he reached the top and as he landed in a thorn bush he became blind. The enchantress then banished Rapunzel to a far far away land. The prince wondered the lands for months when one day he heard Rapunzel singingas they ran too each other Rapunzels tears fell into the blind princes eyes and he could see again...And they lived happily ever after...

I have started to create the environment for this all I needto do is check that it works in XNA and create some trees. Then I can get started on the textures. I want the textures to be the main feature of the story book which is why my model is quite simple.