#Development Project 1

[jian-wei-24]

Development Project 01: Nostalgia and Memory. (Update 8.0: Final Renders)

Figure 1: Main and final render.

Final Render Story:

The battle had ended, but the silence that followed felt heavier than the roar of guns. The sea whispered its grief, carrying the loud crackle of flames from the burning ship on the horizon. Smoke flowed upwards, a gloomy beacon marking the loss of more than hundred enemy sailors. Their cries, mingled with those of our own fallen, had long since faded into the wind. The ground, once alive with chaos, now lay still, stained with the blood of men and spent industrial munitions. The bitter taste of defeat lingers in the air as only our abandoned weaponry guards the beach defences. The sun rose over the horizon, casting long shadows on the sand, as if the shadows served as warm blankets, gently laying the brave to rest. The belongings left behind on the battlefield whispers the stories of the fallen and defeated. For every step the enemy gained, they left a part of themselves behind, just as we had. This war does not choose sides in its cruelty. May humanity learn this painful lesson and not repeat it ever again.

Reflection:

I managed to get used to using Substance Painter again as it has been a very long time since I used that software. I also learnt a lot about camera, lighting, and post processing as I experiment with many settings to achieve the final appearance in figure 1. The entire development process took longer than expected but it has helped me to familiar the entire production flow. Hopefully it would speed up production of my next development project.

Extra:

If more time and resources were given for this project, the following are the additional models or effects I wish to add into the project:

Model and replace machine gun and rifle online asset.

Expand the beach environment.

Experiment more on camera, lighting, and post processing.

Optimise the environment even more.

Add more visual effects where applicable.

More Renders:

[ali-kharaghanian]

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 1 STEP 7

After destroying its creator and its lover, this great musician now takes the stage to perform a piece for the many fans who have come to its concert—a piece of death. A sorrowful composition that drives anyone who hears it to take their own life. When the robot fell into deep despair, it created this music using analyses of the countless pieces it had listened to and processed over the years, aided by its uncontrollable artificial intelligence.

In this scene, the red stage lights fall on its face and chair, foreshadowing a deadly and haunting moment.

[appdevelopment112]

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[zoewilkinson]

Development Project 1 - Week 7

14/01/2024

Updated sculpting.

I’ve spent a good amount of time on sculpting the facial details in and was proud of the progression since it’s still a humanoid character. Unfortunately, I had a problem with my file save and ended up losing these details, so I needed to spend some time sculpting them back in.

Finished resculpt.

I was able to sculpt the details back in and matched them as closely to my previous model as I could. I also added in the detail to the neck and chest to prepare it to be painted later on. I wanted my main focus to be on getting the sharp details in the face that couldn’t be replicated in the texturing. I primarily used the draw sharp tool to carve in the details, and the clay strips tool to loosely get in the shapes and textures of the head and the body.

UV unwrap.

Since this model was made of one piece (apart from the eyes) I was able to UV unwrap it in one piece to paint. The painting was a long process for many reasons, I wanted to replicate the drawing style used in the concept art, but struggled with the blending of the colours.

Different texture paint options.

I went through a lot of variations of this texture painting, mostly because it ended up initially only looking good when completely unlit. I planned to use different brushes to match the painting style from the original art, but realised after a few different attempts that it wasn’t translating across how I wanted it to when moved into UE5 or Arnold for rendering. I asked for feedback from a few of my peers at this point for advice, and they suggested blurring the colours together but adding in a textured material to make it feel less smooth and more like skin. I chose to add a leather texture as a base to the model and blurred the colours as suggested instead of following the painting style, which had a much more positive reaction from my peers, so I think it was overall successful.

Original paint (top) and reworked paint (bottom) based on peer feedback.

As shown in these images, the original art style didn’t render as clearly as I wanted it to and ended up looking splotchy and shiny rather than textured. After going back in with the new paint, I think the overall quality has increased and the model looks overall neater. I was finally able to go in and take my render images and turntable video.

Even with my time constraints and problems I encountered, I'm still pleased with the overall outcome of this piece and learned a lot from this project overall.

[alecbicheno]

Development project 1 blog post 6

13/01/24

Overall, I’m happy with the way this project has turned out. I think it shows off the way I have learned to use Blender for both modelling and texturing over the course of this semester.

Firstly, it was a good idea for me to reduce the number of models to make for the final piece as I could focus on making these ones better, also some of them took me longer than I anticipated. Next, the 90s theme definitely made for a more interesting a fun creative process as I really had to think about designs and found myself asking people who were around in the 90s what sort of styles were around, for example what the carpets were like.

I’m happy with the way the models themselves turned out too. While it took me a while to figure out the way to create some of them, and also redo some parts because I learned a better method, I think they’re good.

This being said there are a few things I would change or do differently. The biggest thing was my time management over the creation of this project. I didn’t allocate as much time to it as I should have and spent more time on the theory work, causing a snowball effect which had an impact on the quality of the overall project. Following on from this, there were some models I would have liked to add in to really help fill the scene, one example being a skateboard. Another thing is for me to add characters onto the keyboard, something that would’ve really upped the quality of it. Also, there were some topology issues which I would like to go back and fix, perhaps even remake the entire model, especially when I’m now much more proficient with Blender than I used to be.

So, to summarise, I’m happy with the way these models have turned out, but I know I can make them better, I just needed to manage my time a little better.

Below are some renders of the final product.

[ellie-bygrave]

Development Project 1: Library

Back with some final screenshots of the library environment I made just before my submission deadline.

I'm still pretty happy with the environment, although looking back on my initial concepts and ideas it ended up a lot more plain that I'd intended. I think I tried to include too much so each individual asset isn't as detailed or the best version I think i could make now, especially after finishing my arcade machine project. However, for a first attempt at a fairly full environment for uni I'm still happy and it definitely has improved my skills

[justiceforplutoo]

I feel like steddies are always going for bi steve/gay eddie but consider: comphet gay steve/bi eddie. I'm so sure someone's said this before but...consider with me, ok?

consider a young child steve whose father still works in hawkins but is never with the family, leaving steve with his mother and his mother's girl-friends. they talk all about their husbands and their families and one day steve, all innocent, asks his mom, "when will I get a husband?"

his mother clutches her chest and says, "oh no, stephen, that isn't how that works."

steve who confusedly nods along and goes with it.

steve who chastises himself every time he catches himself staring in the locker room, or in gym, or at swim meets.

steve who finds himself, years later, confused as to why he can't find himself feeling for the girls he dates the way they do for him.

steve who convinces himself that he'll find the right girl one day.

consider steve sitting on the floor of the starcourt bathrooms with robin, covered head to toe in vomit and blood. and this is it, right? this is the part where he gets the girl. and something in him cringes at the thought. something in him says, no, you don't want her.

he brushes it off as king steve telling him who he should and shouldn't date.

and then robin starts panicking and talking about tammy thompson (oh.) and suddenly they're singing muppets and steve has this paradigm shift because he doesn't have to get the girl.

it takes him a couple months and one "don't ya, big boy?" to make him realize that he doesn't have to get the girl.

and it's funny - honestly, it is - because robin comes out and so does will and eddie is...himself, but steve thinks to himself, well, that's good for them, but it could never be me.

and he keeps saying that it could never be him until the split second before he realizes it is him.

it could never be him, he thinks, but rocky horror picture show is playing in the background and eddie leans into his space and talks all about how sexy rocky's body is and somehow that leads to jocks and somehow that leads to, "so what do you like, steve?"

and somehow that leads to a strained and breathless, "I think I like you, eddie."

and then they're kissing, and steve is desperately pawing at eddie's collar, unsure where to put his hands. it's a blur, and all steve really registers is that they're kissing, and then-

and then steve starts crying. silently, at first, and in the heat of the moment, unnoticeable, except then steve is pushing eddie away and eddie looks hurt.

"I read that wrong, didn't I?" says eddie.

steve gulps in air, face red, and barely manages out a "no".

"...no?"

"I don't think I like girls, eddie. but I like you."

"you know you can like both, right? I mean, I do."

steve nods, then shakes his head. "I think I just like boys, eddie."

"oh, okay."

eddie leans in for another kiss.

[vlasdygoth]

lean on me

[sysig]

Is this small and pixely enough that it’s not a spoiler

[fromtheseventhhell]

Zutaras are really the original self-insert, "we understand the story soooooo much better than everybody else" girlies and they just never moved on

[jian-wei-24]

Development Project 01: Nostalgia and Memory. (Update 7.0: Own Asset Declaration)

Figure 1: Modelled assets. (Top) Figure 2: Zoomed in on smaller assets. (Bottom)

In figure 1 and 2 contains a bunker wall and roof, two types munition crates, Bren Light Machine Gun magazine, spent rifle bullet casing, and Barbed Wire Set.

Figure 3: Ship modular components.

In figure 3 contains 16 different unique models that form the design of the ship.

Figure 4: Old Assets from previous projects

In figure 4, the sandbags and long crate are assets I created for my degree final year project. The sandbags were altered and improved for this project. The textures for the sandbags were re-done as well.

Figure 5: Decals drawn

In figure 5 are the decals drawn in Krita by me. They would be utilised in creating blood, burn and footstep decal effect. The footstep image was taken from an online page, Pngimg (n.d.) .

[ali-kharaghanian]

DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 1 STEP 6

In this post, I’ve shared views of the designed character without materials, showcasing its details. I can't say I was entirely successful with this project, nor that I failed, but I went through many iterations while designing this character. The important thing was that I was learning sculpting along the way. By switching between modeling and texturing software, I discovered and learned a lot of new techniques that will surely help me in future projects.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

— J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

[zoewilkinson]

Development Project 1 – Week 6

An Update and Changes Coming

05/01/2024

Well, I sadly needed to take a longer break than anticipated and a lot has changed to my project plans since. Over Christmas break I was very unwell and was completely unable to move, and therefore work on my projects. This put a huge dent in my planned schedule and has made working on all my projects, as well as other modules, rather tricky. Nevertheless, I’m now back and have some updates on my projects.

When I last updated my work, I had left the model right before using the dynamesh tool to begin sculpting in high poly. After using the dynamesh tool, it removed the majority of my details and I had to go through the process of adding them back in, with the additional challenge now of a higher poly count and therefore sharper details.

Dynameshed model.

At this point I felt okay about how I had remade the details, but definitely not as confident as I wanted. I decided to continue on with the tutorials, while feeling a bit uneasy about my current plans for finishing this piece. After the second dynamesh, I made the decision to change my original idea.

Further details/problems.

Because of my new time management schedule, I was no longer confident that I would be able to produce this piece up to the standards I wanted it to be. I was struggling to use ZBrush and keep up with the tutorial, and started to come across a lot of issues when making the eyes that I wasn’t able to fix after about five solid hours of working back into it. My main concern was the fact that I knew I wouldn’t be able to make the eyes as strong as I needed them to be, because the eyes are what completely make or break a model.

So, I went back to my original mood board for my places of the mind weekly task to take further inspiration that I felt more confident with. Maybe this was a controversial choice to make, and potentially even not the smartest, but I decided to put this piece on hold and work on developing these skills in my personal time. I wanted to keep to creating a humanoid form so I wasn’t straying too far from my idea, but also switch it to a topic that will always interest me: horror characters.

Art by Piero Macgowan (Macgowan, 2015)

I was really drawn to this design in my original task, but wanted to try and make a human face because it was something I was less comfortable making. I think by switching to this design, while a bit last minute, I’ll be able to make a much more successful piece overall and learn a wider range of tools and techniques. I felt stuck with the bust piece and was becoming very aware of the fact that I probably wouldn’t make it past the modelling and sculpting stage if I continued with it, when I wanted to continue experimenting with different ways to use Substance Painter and UV unwrapping. I’m excited to see how this project progresses going ahead.

Initial block out of the new alien bust.

I worked on developing the base block out of this project and already feel much more confident in this piece and how it will progress. Since this model is mostly being sculpted instead of modelled, I'm trying to keep the subdivisons at a decent middle ground around 100,000 polys so it's high enough to get the sharp details I need, but low enough that it won't affect my PC speed.

Bibliography

Macgowan, P., 2015. Sectoid Concept - XCOM 2. [Online] Available at: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4an6Y [Accessed 11 October 2023].

[alecbicheno]

Development project 1 blog post 5

11/01/24

Here I continued by making a rubber texture for the cables which features a noise node and a colour ramp, then a plastic texture with a noise and bump node for the other appliances. I also made two variations of key texture for the keyboard and adjusted the size and placement of various keys. For the computer screen it was more complicated. It used a subsurface scattering node in order to get some darkened edges, a glossy shader with 0 roughness and a fresnel node for the reflection, all put through a mix node.

To finish I created a carpet texture for the floor which featured many noise and voroni nodes with a bump map as well as some colour mix nodes in order to create a rough mottled look. For the walls I created a plaster effect which featured noise, veroni, and Musgrave textures and some colour ramps with a bump and displacement node in order to create this uneven, rough, bumpy finish on the walls.

[ellie-bygrave]

Development Project

I made another short video showing a few changes. After some feedback I'm planning to add a staircase descending down to the left of the platform down towards the water and potentially into a small cave. I'm planning to work on that the rest of this week.