Reflection of game art, Week Twenty two

This week I continued with my Character project and was also the deadline for the project at the end of this week. I had mostly finished rigging and had unwrapped my model, which I rendered into a 1024 x 1024 32 bit targa UVW map. At the beginning of the week I started texturing my UVW map in photoshop. I started by researching some materials for my character, such as furs, leather, cloth and how to hand paint them. At this point I realised that my UVW was  incorrect, as my head unwrap should take a third of the space of my texture map, I also forgot to model the belt and bag, therefore had to go back to 3DS max to fix these problems. Once I had fixed these problems, I continued with texturing the UVW map and changed the old map to fit the new one. Now I began texturing the clothing. First I copied the apron I used from my orthographic final, to the UVW map so that it fit where the apron is and painted over. I then started on the leather shirt, I wanted it to look very cracked and dry leather. So I first painted a base layer of the colours from the concepts, fading from dark to light, then found an image of leather with very prominent cracks to copy from. I layered the image under the painted layer and lowered the opacity so I could see the cracks. I then used this as a guide to paint in the dark cracked areas and the light reflective areas of the leather, once this was done I deleted the leather image and cleaned up the lines around the edge. This method worked well and I am happy with the results on my texture map, I continued with painting the rest of the map. Once I had finished, I applied the texture to my model and finishing rigging ready for the deadline. 

This was also Employability week, so there was no lessons to attend, however we had reviews of our character projects. Overall my feedback for my project review was excellent, I am happy with my learning progress and the level I am at. I was told that I am currently at an B grade, but with a little extra work I could be looking at getting an A grade by the end of the year and on to next year. To hear this makes me extremely happy that I have developed and learnt so much and that the changes of me passes the first year is high.