Cactus finished

One of the items on the list which Harvey gave me was a cactus. I wasnt sure about my model as I didnt think it looked to much like a cactus but I do think if it was textured it would look so much better. Now that I have had this notion I asked Sam King to give me a tutorial on texturing and UV Mapping, which was really good. He broke it down into understandable terms and believe I can take the information he gave me and apply it to my work. Thanks Sam!!

Texturing test above (tutorial done by Sam King)

Back to the film: Modelling little trinckets

Finally the dissertation is over!!! and now I can get back to El Bandito!!! Harvey has given me more props to model for the film. They are small but valuable to the plot. Below are screen shots of coins that I have modelled. Harvey specified to me that the coins had to be very simple. So I decided to leave the usual detail on the face of the coin out. Each coin is a low poly and can be duplicated so it is easy to animate.

Developing Cactus:- The following pictures are of my first modelling developments of a cactus, as we need at least three varieties. Although not finished (needs the spikes) this is how far I have got so far.

The story so far.....

My role right now consists of making the props to authenticate the environmental pieces of our film. So far I have enjoyed making the props and believe my efforts will make a solid contribution to the film. Right now I have decided to take a week out to fully focus on improving my dissertation, which my group has been supportive of. I will continue on my role in the next week.

Modelling props: Bucket

I have now decided to model a bucket, this was suprisingly harder than I thought It was going to be, but I got there in the end and am very happy with the results.

Progress on bucket................

Prop Modelling: a wagon

Well me and Harvey had a chat and he could see I was getting a little tired of modelling buildings, So I have changed my direction slightly and gone back to props as I cant start any animation yet until the rigs are finished. I love the way my wagon has come out, I feel it is stylised to the look of our film, and will compliment it perfectly. If I was to make the model again I would increase the detail, but because It is such a fast paced film, it would be a waist of time to make it too detailed as it would be lost on the viewer.

My progression in making a wagon...................