So I made it in time, except for the fact that I didn't have the time to make the poses I had planned for in the beginning. Istead I posed her in two other poses thet fits her personality: Bully and Unsure. I also used the facial expression to underline /strenghten the poses.
I must admit that I had to make the two poses as easy as possible to skin, because I haven't calculated time right.
The last pose (skiing) was planned from the beginning. Well, she was supposed to hold a long stick in her hand, but I didn't have time to model that. I think it turned out rather well without it and it's my favourite pose
So the rig took less time than I had expected and the skinning was unbearable. I guess the skinning was really hard because I'm exhausted of working on this assignment. The two other assignments we've had this school year have only lasted for four weeks and I think that's enough for one assignment still. I risked becoming fed up with 3D in all.
I only have tree MAX archives on the DVD because One of the still renders where picked out form the image sequence of the turntable animation. I rendered another one of the skiing pose in the same format as the two other but the frame from the animation looked better and is aslo in high quality. The other imagie is in the «renders and screenshots» folder
These last days:
Texturing:
Mudbox didn't work on my computer in tha start, and when it finally worked I had already finished most of the textures in Phottoshop.
The plans I had with hair and fur just disappeared, with a good reason I already mentioned – render time
Inetsead I took the hat into mudbox and painted some bump on it.
Rigging:
The rigging wasn't very hard. I actually did that in the easter vacation we had, took half a day at the most.
Skinning:
skinning was mostly hell. One reason is; becaue I was very stressed, but I've also never tried skinning, and on top of this I was/is very exhausted by this assignment and couldnæt take much more.
I think my scene must've been too big for my computer since MAX kept crashing all the time. When I switced to a more powerful compurter, it worked out better
Naturally it also worked out better after a while, when I understood how it worked - how to weight the vertises
Rendering:
I've had a lot of problems during the whole assignment period with ugly mesh shadows, first on the hat, then later on the shoes. It looked like the low poly without smoothing groups. A lot of this disappeared when I activated final gather
I also had some pråblems with the «opacity feather» in the render before I used 1 bounce on the final gather settings. The problem was that I could see the plane around the feather shape just barely.
My goals :
My goals from the beginning of this project were pretty high and I have not reached them to the fullest. My high expectations have exhausted me and I'v tweaked on small details to get it perfect thoughout this whole project. I'm still not very good at calculating time, but I learn from my mistakes – next time, I'll set off more time to skinning.
I've made time schedules during (not only in the beginning) the project to see the changes in plans more clearly
The post production and result:
Editing the turntable animation in after effects didn't take as much time as expected – luckily. The stills didn't need so much editing tin Photoshop either as the lighting turned out fine and the mesh and textures looked good
A was afraid the result would look like plastic because of the hat – because I modeled it instead of using hair and fur, but it turned out better that I had expected. There were some black shadows on it first, but they disappeared with the final gather settings
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