2D Week 15: Final Turn-in

This week I worked on some tweaks to the final version of the laser pointer. It now renders a series of debug lines at the point of impact, acting as a drawing tool:

(Approx: 1.5 hrs)

I also rigged the new mesh for the face tree:

(Approx 2 hrs)

Finally I, helped Boo test the blueprint of the final tree. The tree now moves when you enter a trigger box.

Week 14, Concept Round: Fancy Edition

This week I worked on making the laser pointer more clear in engine. I kept the debug on the line trace in order to draw the default sprite at the point where the line trace collides with a mesh, as well as added to the blueprint so that the laser mesh scales along with the line trace. To keep this all updating live while the laser button is pressed, I added this functionality to the event tick, and created a new variable to keep track of if the laser button is pressed or not.

Week 13, Concept Round: Red Edition

First up this week I made the laser pointer red to better stand out:

Next up I solved an issue with the apple baskets. The apple baskets, due to having their collision settings set so that the baskets used the complex collisions as simple collisions, became too complex to handle in engine and thus fell straight through the floor of our scene. Using convex colliers was also not an option because of the shape of the basket. So, I used five box colliders to add a simple collider to the basket portion until we can create custom colliders in Maya:

Finally, I placed a trigger box around a Tinman to test having him wave when the player approaches him. Ideally we will change this to a blendspace in the future to prevent the animation from popping in the future.

Week 12, Concept Round

This week I created a laser pointer for use in our scene:

Week 11, Thumbnails and Rigging

This week we did some thumbnails for our environment:

I also tackled rigging our proxy model of the Tinman. In the rig below, most joints are FK with the exception of the IK rigged legs:

2D Week 10, Interactivity Blueprints

This week I investigated interactivity in VR using Unreal's example or motion controllers in action. Here is my version of the graph that I recreated in our team's project and the golden mushrooms that are now able to be picked up in our scene:

2D Week 09, Proxies and Concept Refinement

First I created a proxy model of a tree in Maya:

Next I brought the leaves and trunk separately into Houdini to scatter them and change their size procedurally. They were brought in separately in order to change the collisions on the leaves to 'none' later in the engine. 

Finally I brought the trees and floor into Unreal:

In a later conversation I discovered that this pipeline was not the ideal solution to our problem of creating a forest, and instead used the Unreal terrain editor to create a more hilly environment and preserve separate UVs on each of the trees:

3D Week 08, Working in Engine

This week we imported our cannons into UE4.

(Time approx. 45 minutes)

3D Week 07, Bake Maps and Digital Painting for a Prop

This week we took the low res cannon model into Substance Painter and baked the normal maps from the high res cannon as well as giving the prop other textures to give it the look of wear and tear from use. Additionally we created stamps to use as stencils.

(Time approx. 3.5 hrs)

2D Week 08, Team Tin-Man

This week we'll be investigating the visual style of Tim Burton and then applying that style to the story of The Wizard of Oz. Our team includes myself, Boo, Connor, Leah, Will, and Yan. Together we created style guides for our character. My guides were trying to give an idea of what the lighting and visual effects

2D Week 07, Basic Lighting

This week our assignment was to pain an object with three point lighting.

Based on this photo taken by Anthony Ballinas:

(Time, approx. 3.5 hrs)

3D Week 06, Cannon Scuplt

This week we expanded upon the cannon, first correcting it's UVs:

Next, we made a higher polycount version of the model:

Finally, we took the model into ZBrush and scultped detail into it:

(Total time, approx. 3.5 hrs)

2D Week 05, Silhouettes

This week we worked on silhouettes:

(Time: approx. 2 hours)

3D Week 05, Cannon Proxy Model

This week we created a cannon proxy model. First we set up the scale:

Then, modeling began:

Finally, the model was imported into UE4:

2D Week 05, Composition

This week we were assigned to create a piece based on a composition style. I chose to do an L composition:

3D Week 04, Legos Part 2

This week our class broke into four teams each tackling a different part of a combined environment. I was on the character team and modeled the robot arm by building upon classmate Ryan Hill's work and the head separately (approx. 2 hours):

Next the pieces were textured (approx. 45 minutes):

Finally, these were brought into UE4 and assigned variations on this material before being added to a blueprint of the final character (approx 1 hr):

All together, this is what the group project looks like: