Skeleton Sketches and Joints

Task:
Ah a new year, and to kick off 2016 is our winter break homework with is drawing the human skeleton and joints. I started with a few sketches on the basics, just so that I could get used to drawing a skeleton. For example my first drawing was the skull, then flowed by the shoulders and arms, then the legs and finally the entire body. 

My research:

I mainly used this book to help me with my drawings. It is called "Anatomy Lessons From The Great Masters" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. This helped me hugely and I would recommend this book for people who wish to learn the human body and how it's formed. I also watched a video from Proko and how he explains how the 6 joints work in the human body.

Video on The 6 Joints in Human Anatomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYal_hitz4

My Sketches:

My 3 illustrations of the skeleton:

For this particular task I was struggling to think of how I could try and make a skeleton look unique and making it seem worth '20 hours' of work.  So like most art work, I used what was given to me e.g. the Anatomy Lessons From The Great Masters book as well as my tutors skeleton image. I only used the image as a guide and only copied the shape of the skeleton.

final:

Key Bone Names:

These are the key bone names to be know for the human body

Synovial Joint Names:

This homework took a lot longer for me, as I had spent a few days to complete. I would say that this clocked in 30 hours for me..and that's only for the sketches and 3 illustrations. But I digress, it was still a good practise to do and I am determined to make a solid start for 2016.

Referencing for Walking Simulator

Music used for project:

Bioshock: Beyond the Sea (La Mer): by Django Reinhardt 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrih-8t3TI

Soundtrack used for Elevator in my walking simulator.

 

Scary Sound Effects; Video published by Nicole McClelland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQtJaV54bs
Sounds used for background noises.

Neverending Nightmare Soundtrack: Music by Sklyer McGlothlin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEBNrhNQ1z8
Music used for my main theme in my Walking Simulator. 

I also Added a few materials from Unity Standard assets, in order to give it more atmosphere as well as helping the player find there way though the building.

Final design for Battle Arena

This is my final design of my battle arena temple. After adding the textures on and reorganizing my targa files, I managed to neaten and revive my original final piece. Though it was stressful to have had everything going wrong for me on the hand in date, I was still happy with creating this arena. My tutor did mention that it was very 'ambitious' to build two level, let alone one. However I was utterly determined to at least try and experiment with two different levels. One being the upper level. The outside of the temple. And the lower level. Being the temple with bricks and wood. Understandably its not perfect, but I am still impressed with it, considering it is my first project using the Maya programme. 

My level and coding step by step:

Character starts the game in the cell and hears a scream. The doors are open. Time for the player to escape.

The player is then introduced to the clocks, one of which shows the lever.

Once the player clicks on the lever, the item will pop up near the players camera. 

Player places the lever and uses it to open the elevator doors.

Once inside the elevator, the music begins to play, then pressing the red button will activate the elevator to move down. Once on the bottom floor, the player will hear the bell sound. 

Finding out that the exit is locked, the player will enter a room where a strange set of eyes are watching. One of the eyes is the button that will activate a door to the computer room.

Then in the computer room is the red button that will activate the exit door to open. 

The player goes out of the building where the walking simulator ends.

For the coded objects, my total count was four. First was opening doors. Second was the lever changing positions (the clocks, to the player, to the bottom part of the lever). Third was the elevator, which I used animation in order for it to move downwards. Forth was the buttons used to trigger the doors to open.  It should also be mentioned that I had a few texts to guide the player on what to do or what is happening. As well as having some background music and sound effects to give the game more of an atmosphere. 

Adding more Texture

Now that I have managed to finish the modelling part of the project, it was time to add more texture onto my arena. Examples of this are shown in my previous post which shows all the textures and images I used. For example the wall and snow textures for the temple. I should also mention that I have added more models from some of my class work. Like having the mushroom, some foliage and the pillars.

I thankfully went back to the basics and created my own stone texture for the cave. The effect I used was multiply. Then putting another layer on normal on top I started colouring in the shapes I wanted to make the stone effect. 

The photo above was the picture I used for texture, in order to colouring in my stones. While the bottom photos are the shapes and look of my targa cave textures.

My deadline day problem:  

This image showed some complications that I had during the final hand in date. My folders that had all the textures, models and Photoshop work were a complete mess. So when I had to hand my work in, it was in pieces. Some of the textures where missing. However I did mange to sort out the animation that shows the battle arena in unity. My aim for the Christmas Holidays is to try and make my folders much neater and clear. I might also add one or two more things to my battle arena, to try and improve it.    

3d Modeling Refrenceing

Images used from Google in battle arena:

go on google image , click on camera and use the image you used

Wood Plank:

Date :

Website: http://cdn.grid.fotosearch.com/CSP/CSP123/k1231632.jpg

Steel Texture:

website image:  http://www.2expertsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/original11.jpg

website : http://www.2expertsdesign.com/photoshop/50-best-metallic-textures-you-may-want-to-use

Snow Texture:

website Image: http://ozsnowgear.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/5342749399_cbd9d768a3_z.jpg

Face painting

For our last lesson of 2015, we were given the artwork of an old rough looking woman and was told to paint the image on Photoshop by just looking at the image on paper. This was a task to see how  well our skills in proportion and colour had become. It was a 2 hour session.  

What I got after 40 minutes:

 What I managed to do in 2 hours during the lesson:

This does go without saying that it needed a little more work on. So for my spare time (little that I have) I plan to redo the face painting. Though it was a fun task, it did show that I need to work more on my painting skills. Perhaps its type of brushes I am using? Or maybe my drawing skills are not exactly up there yet. We shall see.

Try 2 after 4 and a half hours:

This version was my second attempt at trying to speed paint. This one was done during Christmas but was timed for 4 and a half hours. This came out a lot better as I was more relaxed and not constantly looking at the time. It makes a world of difference when you have a bit more time to carry on with work with a fresh mind.

Life Drawing week 11

In this lesson We had to concentrate on the human anatomy parts. So fro example we mainly focused on drawing the leg or the chest. It was our choice in which body part to draw.

For the second part of this lesson, we put our techniques of how to draw aside for a moment and focused on naming the human anatomy.

The last image was us to draw the model as usual and then colour the outside of the model in black, so that the drawing would stand out. It worked for my drawing, but I only had time for one attempt.

Robot painting

 For this classwork/homework was to use the value to create the form, this is an exercise in simplification. How just 4 values can create dynamic forms. The second part of the exercise introduces the concept of atmospheric perspective.

My finished Robot with all 4 values:

New feedback for walking simulator

I was given another chance to show my walking simulator and have I have improved it since the last time I was given feedback.

It is pleasant to see more positive feedback from people and I appreciate that they are seeing the improvements being made. I just need to work on the sound effects, text and a bit of scaling changes, then hopefully I should be near the finish line.