Saturday, 10 January 2015

Reflection of game art, week nine.

The beginning of the week our digital painting and visual design lesson were merge together, so that they could look at our village building project so far and give us feedback. During the lesson I had already finished my project, however I had struggled with the multi-sub materials, so spent a bit of extra time to finish applying the textures. I manged to work out how to create a multi-sub texture using mapping channels in the uvw unwrap and tiling texture in the material editor. We were given longer to work on our village project, as we have already finished with it, this time given was to push us further with our project. I feel this extra time will benefit myself well, as I need to make some changed with my building and does not fully fit the style guide. To achieve the style I want I need to change the colours to the wood and make it darker, the overall look of the building needs to be chunkier and I can do this by re-sizing beams and the shape of the building. I will be continuing this work though my game production lessons and importing my final model into engine. 

In life drawing this week we focus on the silhouette of the figure, using black card cut outs. This task was to produce silhouettes of the figure, by using scissor to cut the outline of the figure in card. For this task I did not have scissors, which meant I had to use my hands to tear the card, However I think this made it easier to tear more detail with the card, as my hands are more accurate at getting tight curves and smaller detail than scissors. Overall I think I produce some fairly accurate silhouettes and enjoyed the task, as it was a change of material used to capture the figure.






This week in critical studies it was Conference day. I learnt a lot about blog writing and have really helped me understand what I need to do, to improve my blog writing and how to critically analyse my work. It has also helped me to gain confidence in my writing and discover that I am capable of writing a good blog, if I analyse my work more and ask myself more questions.Blog writing is a reflection and the meaning of reflection is: serious thought or consideration. I know that I can improve my writing over time, if I follow simple steps and guides, for example,blog writing needs to start with a description to introduce and describe an experience, then express the feelings thought, how the experience made you feel and think. Then you move on to evaluating, what I did? why? how? what worked? what did not?, and finally analyse, which involves looking back on what you learnt and planning, developing on how you can improve from that. 

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