Week Two -- Back to the Drawing Board

 The New Concept

    Last week I was advised to stray away from a recognizable franchise for the sake of a unique portfolio piece. I took the advice to heart as I truly to display original work. 
    Per a suggestion in another course I took to MidJourney, an AI that generates art via prompts, to come up with some rough concept art. I input "Big O Orca Gundam Killer Whale Mecha Robot" and the image above is a contact sheet of the results. Each one provides different avenues to approach making an orca mech. 
    I then went and found an orca reference that gave relative scale and a profile view. From here I began taking the organic shape of a whale in tandem with the metal plating and forms from MidJourney.
    In Maya I took to the content browser to drop a whale and dolphin into the scene for scale. Using the distance tool I made a bounding box of sorts for the scale of the mecha orca, dubbed "Morca," because its a mecha orca and it's more than an orca. 
    Using my newly I acquired skills in subdivision modeling I took a cube and with world symmetry on I dragged the vertexes around until I came to a satisfying shape. I created a second cube doing the same. After deleting faces and lining up vertexes I combined the meshes. With a new concept comes a new timeline. 
Timeline
  • Week 2
    • Gather reference and begin on front of Morca
  • Week 3
    • Complete the rest of the top half of Morca 
  • Week 4
    • Begin bottom half of Morca
  • Week 5
    • Adjust pivot points and parent different parts together 
    • UV the model
  • Week 6
    • Texture the model
    • Apply textures in Unreal, Unity, or other renderer 
  • Week 7
    • Attempt to rig the model
    • Prepare a basic animation  
  • Week 8
    • Troubleshooting from the previous week
  • Week 9
    • Generate a scene to input completed Morca asset
  • Week 10
    • Extra time to generate scene
  • Week 11
    • Take Morca with animation and put it into scene
    • Add lighting and compositing 
  • Week 12
    • Troubleshooting from the previous week
  • Week 13
    • Set-up in scene cameras
    • Settle on a final cut
  • Week 14 / 15
    • Create a more professional portfolio site
    • Make unique landing for the project
    • Collect different renders: AO, wireframe, and etc


 


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