On Monday, I did not have any sessions at university, I did not get up too much with work related stuff on Monday but I did consider some more sources for my dissertation that I think may relate to my chosen topic.
On Tuesday, I had an anatomy session, the small model that I've been working on in the last few weeks has been completed, this week we continued with the bigger scale model as in the last session I only got some wax down for the legs and feet. In this session, I smoothed out the legs and added a pelvis to the model, in the next session I hope to continue with the pelvis and get it to the completed state then to be smoothed out and to carry on with the legs, as I believe the knees will be added in the next session. So far, the sessions have been very useful and I've learned a lot already on anatomy and differences in muscles and bone structures, my tutor is very thorough and helpful I do enjoy the session every week and am very glad that I decided to do the anatomy classes. The big scale model is using a wax that sets harder and dries quicker so a heat gun is needed at times to soften the wax and certain tools to model the softer wax. I like how I'm using different tools and learning a new skill in these sessions and look forward to having a fully completed human structure with muscles and all.
Also on Tuesday, I started the character sheet for my sci-fi Roman character, I plan to do a front, side and back view of the character in full, I plan to get this completed this week. But I know that when I model the character in Zbrush it will change in design but I aim to go by the character sheet as accurate as I can, but I no higher detail will be added in the final model piece. After the model is completed I aim if I have time, is to do a full final character concept piece of my character that is based from my model. I would like to do this as it would give the project a final touch and would be good to fill my portfolio.
On Wednesday, I did not do any university work as I recommended a trip to Kings Lynn with my housemates to a museum, as one of them is studying fashion and I knew the museum has work or a theme that was related to her project.
On Thursday, I had my one hour session with my specialist tutor for my dyslexia. In this session, we went over my dissertation again and went through different sources that I have found that could be beneficial for my dissertation subject, my subject has changed slightly as I was going to compare the differences between games such as fallout 4 to games that have less of a story such as FIFA or certain shooters that are more competitive in their gameplay and looking at how the environment collapse seen in Fallout 4 can affect it's characters. This has changed as I am now thinking of looking at environments such as the one in Fallout 4 and how this frames narrative in it's storytelling. This idea is still an early concept but I believe this to be a stronger topic to discuss and analyse, in the next coming weeks I will look more into this subject, gain more resources and research in which I will then start and hopefully begin my dissertation very soon now that I have a more solid topic. Also in the session with my tutor we went over the sources that I have gathered already and went over a few which were more relevant to some others that where not. In the next coming weeks with my specialist tutor I will continue to look at my sources and structure of the dissertation.
Also on Thursday, I had a concept art session in the afternoon in which we were told to create material cubes one of Slate and another rock of our choosing, we had to create at least 2 cubes but could do 3 if we wanted, I chose to do 2 material cubes. With the slate cube, That I did in the session was quite difficult. I first started with a basic cube shape which I got an image online and drew over to get my cube shape, from there I put down basic block colours, the colours I went with were more of a grey coloured slate. We were told to look at how slate forms such as layers and look at how light hits the slate. This task was more difficult than I would ever imagine and it's not something that I've ever had to do before I was quite surprised at how difficult it was. It made me realise that I should do a lot more studies of textures and materials such as rocks and other surfaces. I did not get to finish the piece in the session and I did not like what I did in the session so when I got home I started the slate again in more detail.
This was my first attempt but I did not like it, I found that the slate pieces where to flat and brush strokes were not consistent enough.
I decided to go with a different colour slate, one with more of a blue tint and used a different brush which was rougher than my previous brush that I used at university. I found some good reference imaging and went from there. First, I drew out a white rough line of the layers of slate and from there I coloured in the slate and gave it more form in which then developed to a more ideal design. Overall, I was happier with the second piece as I didn't find it to be as flat as the first piece. I still need to learn a lot from this task, work more with different shading and light sources as this is something that I am not that confident with, the more I do this task the better I will become and the more confident. My second material cube I decided to do a marble piece I used the same methods as I did with the slate piece, I gathered reference imaging, drew a rough outline and detail of the stone then added in the colour and light sources and detail. The second material cube of the marble was done a lot quicker than the slate piece. Overall the pieces did not come out as bad as I thought they would do but there is definitely an improvement that needs to be made I will have to start looking more into different materials and do more studies in my own time as this would benefit me in the future.
Also on Thursday, late afternoon I had an anatomy lecture which was looking at the abdomen and the curvature of the spine and so on. I did a few sketches in this session using black ink and white pencil. I enjoy going to these lectures as I do like to just sit there and do some quick sketches using pen and paper as I have not done traditional drawing in some time. It also keeps me in the flow of drawing and learning more about the human body and it's form this also is good for my development work.
On Friday, I went to a talk about china internships. The presentation was by a student who gained experience in China with a mobile gaming app company for a few months. She spoke about her experience there, the way they lived, she told us what she had to do at this company and the trips they all went on as a group when she worked there. It seemed to of been an enjoyable experience for her and she gained a lot of knowledge while there as well. It was nice to hear someone else's view on an internship in a different country as it is not something that I have considered but now it may be a possibility. Also after this presentation I stayed behind to talk to my tutor in my group as I had put my name down to help in the independent study week on 22nd November for the women in games to help my tutor with designing a woman character (collaboration task) with younger students in a high school just for the day. I wanted to do this as it would give me experience of working with others in a team and teaching others my skills that may benefit them and in which it may give them a clear understanding of how creative ideas come together and this maybe something they would like to do but not sure where to go with it. I also wanted to be helpful, and I wanted to do this as it was working with character design as it is a specialism that I enjoy.
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