For this assignment, I had the choice between Character design or Environmental design. It took me a while to decide which area I would choose as I spent all of semester one on character designing. I wanted to broaden my skills but I really enjoy modeling and getting to create characters. For that reason, IContinue reading Research and Reflection
This week again, was texturing. This time, the alien. Keeping to the colour scheme of the palets that I chose I began texturing. I wanted the alien to be scarier, more sinister, keeping dark colours but also giving it a pop of contrasting colours. I wanted to add emission, I used the pen tool toContinue reading Texturing Aliens- Week 9
Following from last week I needed to texture the the arms of the fps I followed the same colour schemes as the NPC, making sure to use the same style I did have them look different originally as I did the original trial on them and realised I needed to stick to stylised textures butContinue reading Texturing and Unreal Engine- Week 8
For this project, it was asked that we make custom assets for our project, whether that be in unreal engine or making custom brushes in blender. I already spoke about the custom brushes that I did use in blender which was a brush I had made, a brush I got online and a VDM brushContinue reading Assets in Unreal Engine And Blender
This week in class a guest lecturer Becca came in to give a talk about networking. Having Becca come in to talk was really helpful, she explained the importance of networking and getting to know more people in the industry. This really set in stone how important it is to make connections, she talked aboutContinue reading Networking, UE and post-production – Week 10
This week in class I learned more about shading in unreal and bringing files from substance to unreal engine. There was a lot to learn about how exactly to export the files. I started by taking the exercise file of the watering can Hnery provided for class a few weeks ago and taking those materialsContinue reading Shading in Unreal – Week 9
This week was the intro to Unreal Engine and oh my gawd was it confusing. I couldn’t get Epic games downloaded on my laptop due to space but I was able to access them on the uni computers. It surprised me how big the files were and how long the computers took to load andContinue reading Intro to Unreal Engine – Week 8
