Self directed project-- Blender

Research for 3D animation: Program--Blender

1. Tutorial on Blender's website. Introduction to Blender.
[I got to know that blender is the best and trusted free 3D modeling tool that all artists and even professionals are working with to do essay 3D,[ even this program to me is a bit hard to work with , but I find it has a lot of functions and uses I could work with,]

2.I find the first tutorial called " blender character modeling" by Darrin Lile, there's 10 tutorials in total, and I watched all of them each one is about 15mins long. He's technique of modeling is start with building character's face first. 1.start with single "plane " and start building from the character's nose part. 2.put on check of the mirror tool bar as building one side of the character, the side that's the mirror of the side that I'm building is auto copying what I'm doing . [ I thought if I will start with the face of the character, then I might start with the eyes, or the edge of the face, because when I'm drawing I usually start with those parts ]

3. The second tutorial i have found about character modeling is called " Blender character creation: modeling " by Sebastain Lague, The sketch he has done for his character seems really simple, the body of the character is basically two cube been stretched to shape like body and he did a little adjustment with the curve of the body made the character has more a human look to it. After he built and finish the character he didn't get to the eyes part.[ I noticed It's might be the hardest part to build ]. At the final step, he apply bones to each part of the character that should be able to move , and a simple animation he also made for character's walking cycle.[ I think for starting character modeling, he's tutorial will be more esszier for me

Few of  my  progress[ didn't get to the leg part, have a little knowledge about modeling but not so familiar, in stage of trying ]

Links of tutorials I have watched
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT1GNMevfc
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIoWrOlIRw   [ This one helped me the most, it's simple and it works for me ],
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__uzGKmxt8  [ This is a tutorial for building a mug, which I have watched this whole but didn't help me with any ].
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0z9yJkR2s [ unfortunately the software this person use cost quit a bit, but it's so cool.
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7mISvVzJk
[ I watched a lot of tutorials, but these are the ones that I actually finished watching all parts of it, and they does help me a lot ]

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Right now it's still missing its head ^-^, and I'm a little bit stuck on this stage, I could get over it I think.

Right I'm on the stage of building his head, the reason for me to put his leg as last part of modeling because I have stuck here quit lone so I just go back finish other parts first.

Ted Talk: Roey Sutherland

1. all value is subjective, BUT an intangible change can be just as satisfying as a physical change.
2. re brand the potato – changing its perceived value. [ Design change how people value an object]
3. We need to learn to appreciate things that already exist before creating new things.
4. He says “When you place a value on things like health and love and learn to place a material value on what you’ve previously discounted for being merely intangible … you realize you’re much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.”
5. Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.
6. "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
7. Small things has more value if you value it more.
8.  many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better,
9. Expensive new stuff, it's expensive is not because that it worth that value, it's because of the design made you think it worth that much.
10. Designer should focusing more on making a old thing better rather than make new things,

artist for inspiration 5x5x5

I posted them on  my web ( 5 examples of  artists work ).

1.Akihiko Yoshida

• He is the character artist who designed character for final fantasy.
• In 1995 he joined this company Square Enix, Which is right now one of the most famous gaming company. [They published my favorite game "Final Fantasy"]
• He has been cited as a "fantastic" artist by Kotaku, and his work on Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII was called "brilliant" and "refined" by IGN
• His art are mostly popular among younger generations.
• There's a lot of his characters has been rememberd by gamers forever.
• On few Japanese websites, local people try to find out his drawing technique and trying to learn from him in order to get in to "Square Enix" company.

2.Yoshitaka Amano

• His drawing style give audience a feeling of old Japanese paintings.
• His has attend lots of meetings with other artists, at the end of the meeting he will drawing something live and signed then give to the other artist.
• He has been reward as most talented artist.
• He is right now still work in "Square Enix", mainly on logo design for Final Fantasy, he is still art direct in the company.
• He also has participate in anime "speed Racer".

3.Wlop(Wang Ling)

• Wlop(Wang Ling) is a Chinese manga artist, he usually post his manga on <Tencent Manga>, He has a lot followers from all over the world.
• He decide to become an artist after he graduated from university, he started his career pretty late but he still gone through this difficult pass and become a really famous illustrator.
• His manga "Gui Dao", he did this whole manga using this art style and it's very constant.
• Every people's saying that if anyone want to get better or as good as him, must have 10 experience of life drawing.
• In any of his drawings, the face and body of character finished completely but look closer to their clothing or background [80 percent finished] left few parts with brush stroke, but this made his drawing unique and artistic.

4.Arnold Tsang

• He is the art director and character artist for over watch.
• He's unique is style is like a combination of Japanese and American art.
• These girl characters he has done are not only pretty, they're also really strong. In over watch main characters are all " handsome" girls.
• His work included the hand-drawn artwork seen at the start of the game's cinematic trailer,and has worked on the production of the game's animated shorts.
• "Over watch" the game has been the most popular game last year and almost everybody is satisfied by the characters designed by him. Lots of fan art are released by other artists of his characters.

5.Seita Inoue

• He works in Nintendo( a gaming company in Japan, They has released a really famous game called--super Mario )
• Seita Inoue is the leading artist and designner for last year's new released game on Nintendo switch --Splatoon.
• Unlike normal Japanese animation style, his characters has his own unique drawing style, his coloring style is also really impactive.
• Splatoon's first series is already very popular few years ago, Splatoon 2's art is more amazing than 1.
• Characters in Splatoon 2 are made with 3D modeling tool. These characters are designed simple which is essay to make and each one of them has unique feature.

My self directed project is going to be be able to try some 2d and 3d animation.

10 logo design

self evaluation

What have you learned?

1.learned illustrator function better as a design tool, and photoshop is better for drawing. indsign also has it's own use. Do not finish all the work in photpshop, find the one softer that's fit for doing what kind of work.
2.The principle of design not only helps when I'm doing illustration it works in any kind of work involved in design.
3.Few more ways to use illustrator , such as gradient tool, and the use of the tool bar on the top. Also shortcut key for the tools.
4.Other artist's words sometimes will be the inspiration of our own work.
5.One design could leads to lots of new creations.

What have you struggled with?

1.Ihave struggled with using photoshop for a bit, because I want to learn how to use this tool, at the beginning of the class was my first time that I felt like start to get into this software.
2.Since I'm late for class at the beginning of the class for a week, I've been trying hard to catch up on finish my work. I finally finished my business card and starting doing web design with other classmate.

What are you proud of? What are your strengths?

1.I'm proud of some of the design I made, the business card that using both of my drawing and the software I'm trying really hard to learn how to use.
2.I might have gain more creativity during the project we did.

What goals do you have/ what do you want to learn in Term 2?

1.since I'm interested in concept art, illustration, animation and character design. I want to learn more about software.

What mark do you think you deserve? Explain why.

1. 86 is the mark might get for this term, I was working hard to catch up on all the work we have, also I finally get to finish all of them. I don't yet have time to fix the problem I have, but for the second half of this term, I 'll be working harder to get to these problems I have fixed.

How could you improve?

1.whatch video on Youtube these lesson's online to get more confident of using software.
2.I would like to do a business card for the drawings I made second half of this term, It was a really fun project to do.
3.I want to do a good job on web design, it is a really cool project. It might helps me in the future art project I have.

business card 8

business card 7