On Monday I started to do some more detailed drawings of my robot
character. The drawings are only quick sketches to get a rough idea. I did play
around with colour, I added colour to a few of the drawings. Since doing the
drawings I am heading into creating a robot that is more humanoid than first
thought. I would still like the robot to be rough in its appearance and fairly
dated for its era. Also I bought the Art of Chappie book online last week it arrived today. The book is very good but it is lacking in areas. I thought there would be more to the design aspect of Chappie himself but there is not really any sketches of his first early concept design, which is slightly disappointing, still the book will be of help.
The first drawing on the left seems to be where I would like to go for my final model design.
With the colour side to my model I think my aim is to keep it simple, using more tones such as greys (metal like). I would like to add some color to it. I would like to give the robot a replacement arm due to the original being damaged. The arm most likely will be of a different colour that will not match the rest of the character.
Also on Monday I did start to get familiar again with
Zbrush. I have not covered high surface modelling in Zbrush much at all so I
thought it would be good to gain some knowledge and find a technique that would
work best for me.
This image shows that I was using different brushes to gain a hard surface edge. I used the trim dynamic brush and the high polish brush. I think this will be a good method to touch up the model when needed.
Here I used the trim brush to cut the model. It can leave the edges uneven at times I found. I did have to touch up the edges by smoothing.
This was using the same method as before but I did add subdivisions to this piece. It does give the model a cleaner appearance. 
This is using the same method as before also with added subdivisions, I also used Zremesher to give the model less polys and clean topology. I will continue to gain knowledge of topology throughout the modeling stage.
This method is using the slice brush to create a polygroups. From there the panel loop method can give results such as this. This technique will work well with my robot as it will have many hard surface panels.
On Tuesday, I decided to produce one more quick sketch with
colour of another robot design. I can see the design of the robot in my head
but I have been having some trouble putting it down. Because of this I began to
get on and start the modelling stage. I
believe once I start working in Zbrush it will a lot easier for me to get my character
design across, it will come together the more I work on it. This happened in my
last project, I found as soon as I started my confident with Zbrush improved
and the model and its design grew and a flowed nicely. I decided to start and
create the robot head with the panel loop technique learnt from watching videos
and doing research on hard surface methods.
This quick sketch is the robot design I aim to create. I know when it comes to modeling it will change but I aim to base the final design along this.
I did notice that in between each panel the mesh looked untidy and added unwanted meshes. When the panels are first added they do not connect to each other and this leaves holes in between each panel. By appending the mesh and using the panel loop tab again it closes the holes which is good but I found it left me with more to work with and added to my poly count.
On Wednesday, I did not continue with my original robot head, I decided to start again. I found a useful video on the panel loop method but using it to gain different results.
https://youtu.be/fQolKk-FIao - This is the video I used to learn how to create panel loops.
Using the same method as last time using the slice brushes to produced poly groups I began to develop a different structure. Instead of clicking the panel loop tab like before I clicked the group loop tab. This way you can drag the poly group out using the transform tools such as move.
I started to edit the head and also bought in some eyes for the character to give it more personality.
On Thursday, I continued with the robot head. As I am still getting a feel for my design I started to insert some details adding bolts and such.
I still want to add to the head and may add something similar to what Chappie has on his head, the ear like structures.
Earlier in the week I emailed my tutor and told them I was interested in doing the UX/UI art test put together by Guest speaker Aiden. On Friday, the art test came through in which I had a week to complete it. The aim of the project is to create a inventory/equipment screen by creating your own idea or revamping an existing one from a chosen game of choice. It can be any theme and we can also use other peoples assets if wanted such as icons or character models. If this is the case you can not put this piece in your portfolio. I decided to create my whole idea and not use an existing game inventory screen but to use assets from others as I think I will be pushing for time if I did everything myself. Also this is my first time creating a UI piece I look forward to the final result. I decided to do some quick pen and paper sketches and downloaded a 30 day trial that was recommend by Aiden called Balsamiq Mockups. This is used to get some quick wire frame idea down. I will continue to use this next week.
Fantasy theme/ Medieval, Mobile game.
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