Ill let the pictures do the talking

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Well ok ill share an image of my final major project before its finished. It’s still in need of a LOT of touching up, and finishing of.

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Man… I’ve totally failed at posting up pics of my final major project… Although… I kinda don’t wanna show it till its finished. I’ll show you a little though. A bucket and barrel haha.

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I’m going to give her a blanket to cover herself up with.  In the final scene she will also have hair, and be sitting in a doorway.

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It’s been a bit too long since I posted some updates on my FMP.  Over the last week I’ve been familiarizing myself with zbrush again.  It’s an incredible program, and my meager piece of art doesn’t do it justice.

Here she is anyway, the character for my scene.

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I still need to paint in the wear on the edges and extra grit into corners and so on but its basically done.  Seams will be largely covered up by ivy and other plants later on once I’ve finished all the buildings.

I lost a few hours work today due to my computer rebooting itself, (an angry protest at having not been restarted in a few days I suspect) however total man hours now sits at 18.25 since well… Monday really.  I’ll be working all day tomorrow at gokidsgo and I’m away Sunday afternoon, but starting Monday, I want a more intensive week!

I guess I can share my concept blockout with you all now….

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Enjoying the company of old friends you haven’t seen in years is something I’d imagine brings everyone happyness, even if they arrive at a slightly inconvenient time.  I read an article about our train of thought the other day and some articles linked from it.  It got me thinking about how I can spend time with my friends at the same time as maintaining my train of thought, focus, motivation and inspiration.

First of, I’m working on an architectural piece of art.  So naturally I can draw inspiration and insight from other awesome architectural pieces of art.  Today we explored some of the more interesting parts of Leicester and I took lots of photos.  Tomorrow we are going to explore Nottingham castle.  Train of thought… check!

Music is something I listen to nearly all of the time, the last few days I’ve only been listening to the Pirates of the Caribbean and Lord of the Rings soundtracks.  I’m going for a really epic feel to my environment, epic music really helps me stay focused.  check!

Time’s a precious commodity I cant afford to waste.  Between putting in as much work as possible into my FMP, working at gokidsgo for money, taking part in various Baha’i activities and spending time with Dima and other friends, when I do take some time out to play a game or watch a film, its only time well spent if its something that inspires and motivates me.  Tonight I watched Speed Racer again, easily the best film I’ve seen in a long time.  Actually I’d like to write a review of that at some point.  Motivation, check! Inspiration, check!

Having blocked out the basic siluet of my environment, I now need to think about the details.  I dont feel that I’ve worked nearly as hard today as I did yesterday, but looking and photographing old buildings has kept me thinking and planning in my head which is valuable in itself.

Shown above is a painting I did today.  Apart from the technical observations I also learnt that theres something of a balance to be found between listening to ones gut desires, and forcing oneself to keep working something that your not feeling.  I really should’ve just stick to 3d today as my brain wasn’t working in 2d very well.  The whole time I was working on it I just wanted to be working in 3d and painting texture pages.  I’m a bit afraid of getting distracted and going completely of task, but I suppose sometimes its ok to just role with my feelings, so long as they are somehow focused on the project.

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They ARE just bricks, but I painted them myself from scratch and I’m really happy with them.

They aren’t supposed to look completely realistic, I wanted a painterly feel to them.

Crit welcome!

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This is it! The end is coming, only 1 more term to go, 1 more project, 1 more final stretch before its all over.

Last term I suffered from not having a clear understanding of deadlines, so this time I emailed Powell directly and got the dates I needed, then put my timeline together.

So what am I going to make?  Well to begin with I wasn’t sure,  so I browsed through inspiring works of art until I decided on some sort of fortress/monastery structure deep in some mountains, I’ll work out the details this week.

I have 2 friends coming over from the states tonight and they want to explore, which fits perfectly with me, as I can go out and photograph loads of interesting bits of architecture at the same time.  I will be looking for old churches, castles, Georgian and Victorian style buildings.  Basically anything with some majesty and magnificence about it.

For my 2d work I will continue to paint and draw pieces that have relevance to the subject matter I have chosen for my FMP.  They probably wont all be directly related to the 3d work but should at least follow the same theme.  Painting is fun, and a good way to relax, boost moral and keep up inspiration as I slog out the 9 weeks ahead.

Out of interest I’m also going to keep a record of how many hours I work on tasks related to this project.

Currently 5.5 hours in and I have doodled ideas, and roughed most of the basic layout in 3d.

LUNCH TIME!

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