CGA Visual Design - Tentacle Monsters

MoodBoard

For extra work outside of our Visual Design class we had to design and paint a tentacle monster, so I got a mood board as you can see above. I got a mixture of different images and different concepts  such as a beast, sea monster or a more humanoid creature. 

Concept 1

For my first concept I wanted to do a kind of sea creature with tentacles as most tentacle creatures come from the sea. I ended up with it having a sort of shell head for protection with two different types of tentacles; the standard tentacle and the suckers.

Concept 2

I wanted to try a more humanoid creature on my second concept to get different variations. I made it so the creature had normal hair but then have tentacles growing them it along with a small creature biting into her shoulder as well as a much better creature behind her.  

Final:

Here is my final piece, I felt like it was quite hard to get the right colours on it for some reason that I can't quite explain, but I tried my best. I also think the lower part of the body seems a bit off and needs some improvements but overall some what happy with it but I will go back to it to make some improvements. PS shading was quite hard to do, wanted to do it like it was in the abyss where it is pitch black but then you wouldn't be able to see the creature.

CGA 3D Art Production Lesson 7

Quick battle Arena update.

Tried to to texture one of the mountains I have put in as a experiment just to get used to Maya 2016

have also added some rocks in the river.

Have also added a river bed instead of a flat plane.

CGA Visual Design Lesson 7 - Perspective

CGA Gemplay and Interactivity Lesson 6 - Doors opening and Closing.

Today out teacher went through a tutorial on how to open and close a door using scripting, it was almost like a animation but very different process.

We had to add a trigger box to indicate the area for the doors to open ( we made them open to the sides ) and close when we leave the area almost like a automatic door in real life.

This was the start of our scripting with a few things added in.

 We then added the transformation of the doors to where they would move but when we enter the trigger zone, it looks like the doors would teleport to the position we want it and back to the original position when we leave the zone.

So we changed it a bit to make it move almost in real time instead of it teleporting.

Then did the same when closing.

We then deleted a few things right at the bottom of the script because we didn't need them any more as there was another lined scripted above it functioning the same as the lines just deleted and replaced them with some audio files for some music when we enter the zone and the doors closing and opening.

Life Drawing Session 6

Today we did the usual 5 minutes drawing of 5 quick poses.

We then had to use charcoal and another type of media, I chose a orange marker.We had to do 2 drawings having 15 minutes between them. So we had to look at our model and draw using both our hands simultaneously using the charcoal and our other media we choice.  I found it quite difficult as we had to look at our model and look both of the drawings and as you can see I kind of prioritised my right side more than my left.

Then we moved onto 30 minutes drawings ( we did 2 drawings ) focusing more on the posture and detail of out model.

First drawing. I liked this one a lot because it's the best drawing I have done so far; the posture and shape and the size of the body parts look good as well  look good in my opinion apart from the chair.

Second Drawing. For this one we were only aloud to using different tones of shading to make out our model.

CGA 3D Art Production Lesson 6 - Foliage

We followed another tutorial but this time in out own time as we ran out of time in the lesson.

It was to learn how to use foliage to create grass or tree branches. So I got a side view shot of a batch of grass.

I then went into the Channels and added a alpha channel. Then went back to my normal layer which add the grass on, held ctrl and left clicked the layer to select the image within the layer. Then switched back to the channel Layer and filled it in with white.

The parts in white we can see when we take it into unity and the black background will be blank.

So I took it back into Unity and applied the texture on a plane which I rotated 90 degrees in the y axis to make it face us.

Then simply duplicated the plane again creating the illusion like its real.

CGA 3D Art Production Lesson 6 - Mushy's (mushrooms)

In today's lesson we had to follow a step by step tutorial shown by our teacher on how to model and paint a mushroom on Maya 2016, we also had a open document if we got lost or fell behind.

First of all,we modelled our mushroom.

Then we took a UVsnapshot and make it a Targa file and opened it on Photoshop.

we then processed to colouring the parts in on separate layers and added detail to them such as the moss and white round circles and such.

Then added some Radial Gradient.

We then went back into Maya 2016 and opened up Hypershade and assigned the Targa file onto a lambert.

Then assigned the texture onto our mushroom.

I also did another one but in another colour using the same UVsnapshot although I did change the shape of the mushroom after applying the texture which is bad because I can see the UVmap with change and the texture will not really match.

Here are both of them together.