Final Delivery

 

Sprint Delivery #5

 

Worked on texture iteration, here is the photo of everything in engine.

Sprint Delivery #4

 

Sprint Delivery #3

 For this sprint, my mesh was completely reworked and optimized. I ran into an issue with the sword with moved vertices. The sword was tapering and expanding slightly at certain points, which resulted in me reworking the sword and other pieces that are dependent on everything slotting together. 

Then, for the high-poly, everything in hard-surface modelling reached about 30k polys, and it was brought in zbrush to start working on the high-poly detail for wear and tear. As of right now, not much of that has gotten done, because the priority was to fix the issues that appeared with my mesh and rework everything for clean topology so that there wasn't work on the high-poly sculpting that was going to waste. 

 

Additionally, the katana was curved within ZBrush!

These are the reference photos!

Sprint Delivery #2

 For this sprint, I worked on fixing the proxy by making all the separate pieces of the katana functional and in accordance with a real blade ie. making sure all the pieces slot together and nothing was clipping. 

Most of my time was primarily spent working on adjusting pieces through vertex adjustments and adding/removing edge loops to avoid clipping. All of the pieces that make up a katana are now properly represented in the proxy model, as well as a cleaner version of fabric/knots. They're now fully done with no clipping and optimized by deleting faces that would not be seen to reduce poly-count.

Sprint #1 Delivery

For this week I worked on building the proxy of the Great Katana/Odachi for Mark's character.

Worked on gathering reference, establishing scale and doing adjustments post critique. 

Everything is uploaded and present in UE5 currently.

Lighting Homework Week 4

 

lighting hw week 3

 

Lighting Workshop Week 2

 

Lighting Workshop Week 1

 

Common Art A Stage

 

Finalized the textures on the vase and the shield, made decals for both of them!

Hercules; B Stage

 

For this week I worked on doing the first pass of textures for the assets I was assigned.  For the first pass, it was about assessing the style we were going for and matching style with the other artists. and then revising and fixing UVs. For this next week, I'll work on further implementing the designs for the textures.