For the last week over and after the Christmas holidays I finished the UV grid and reviewed any mistakes and moved onto the colouring of textures and grease pencil for the final step. I immediately thought of using Blender to fill in the textures and colouring once I experimented with Grease pencil as found the outcome appealing to ones eyes as I watched inspirational videos to bring my sketch to life as the model just looked bland looking at it as I took inspiration from the The White Snake Movies from the light chaser trilogy with an example from a scene that uses hybrid animation mixed with the 3D and 2D effects where the line art is visible digitally with the textures looking like Ink.

 

 

Afterwards I then went onto the colouring phase and used my character sheet as reference to fill out the colours using different materials for each colour presented and finally completed but went over any mistakes or systems I forgot to do. I couldn’t use the substance painter for errors so I gave Blender a go to help with keeping my colours and textures in place and discovering and struggling with the materials for quickness as I asked my lecturer about the render phase and line art. 

 

I took the chance to create multiple materials for the colours displayed in the shader editor and baked the textures which I brought into Unreal Engine to view the model and to edit the roughness of the maps and a few extra effects to make the character less shiny but couldn’t export it properly and grease pencil couldn’t be added in, so I took the textures I had amended and went back to Blender. Just after that, I found it straining when I had attempted to export the Grease Pencil mesh but having no success thus far and almost gave up but found solutions on the way. After watching the last aid of videos I was able to overcome this difficulty and add the grease pencil to the model onto Sketchfab. I tried the best I could do for this assignment once I exported the model and uploaded everything all together when I have been rusty over the past year with modelling and trying to remember the requirements on uploading models but and I’m glad of the outcome I have made which I feel is great and my best work as I only wished there was more time for the module to work on this and watch out for the time management. 

 

 

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