Past few weeks

I have to say im been pretty rubbish at keeping this blog updated in the last few weeks. This is mainly due to having a big race the first week of the easter holidays so I was concentrating on that and I was at home for my birthday for the 2nd week.

Since ive been back i have carried on working on the environments and the subs. Ive been having a little bit of trouble with the lip syncing however due to the fact i have very little speech in my script, I could make the mouth movements more simplified.

I will do a bit more work and post it up here.

Platelets

I have produced two platelets which are part of the blood cells (I am going to red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets floating around)

I used a sphere and pulled the polygons about to make the shape more natural. I then added the red texture map on it.

Lets hope Banksy doesnt see this

I got a bit bored so I decided to mess around with photoshop for a bit. I havnt done any arty work in a while and I do miss it a bit from my art foundation days.

Just a simple piece. Painted heart, I stole the image of the girl of the internet and edited it slightly. Added a texture filter at the end to make it look like its on canvas. Made it up as I went along really.



The quality isnt great probably because ive uploaded it to blogger rather than embedding it from flikr or something.

Flickr

This is my reference library on Flickr.

My portfolio

This is my portfolio. I will expalin why I have done certain things. I made the portfolio 1min long as it cant be too long as employers only have a small amount of time to view portfolios so I have made it short but included lots of work.

After listening to Paul Wilkes speak about portfolios, looking at the brief and after talking to the leader of the BA Digital Effects course at Bournemouth, which I would like to study after I leave Trent, I decided to include the obvious things such as my design process, animation, skills such as UV mapping and modelling, photography and photo editing and art work (these are due to the leader of the masters course at Bournemouth saying I should include example of photography to show shot framing skills and art work from my foundation course to show my artistic development)

Ive made my CV short and compact as I thought it would highlight my key attributes and it easy to read for potential employers as they have a limited amount of time.

Portfolio

Today I have been working on my portfolio for the context 2 assignment.

After looking at the brief, dicussions with tutors, thinking about what Paul Wilkes from Escape Studios said and emails with the course leader of the masters Digital Effects course at Bournemouth I have decided to produce my portfolio in the form of a short video.

I am going to include development work from the current project, finished work from previous projects, photographs I have taken to show my photography skills and a few pieces of work from my art foundation course to show how I have developed.

I will explain what I have put in my portfolio and why once I have finished it.

Red Blood Cell

I have designed the red blood cell. I have just adjusted the vertex on a cylinder and added turbosmooth.



*EDIT* After doing a bit more research on red blood cells i have found out they are not always cylindrical so i will be adjusting the model above a bit and creating a few versions