Unfortunately for me, I ended up catching a cold/fever after grocery shopping Thursday night. My temperature has been going up and down, but I have been bedridden and coughing nonstop. Luckily capstone has ended this past weekend for me, so I can focus my energy this week to catching up finishing up my project. Below are what I was able to accomplish this week.
I will need to get finish up the sculpt ASAP so I can start work on prototype printing.
For this sprint, I continued to work and improve on the ending illustration. After having Ismeal look over the rough sketches I did last sprint, he picked the one he prefered and I began doing line work and iterating on that version.
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| The rough sketch from last sprint |
For my final project of the semester, I will be creating a custom Nendoroid figure of Tsubasa Okui from the music group/project SolidS. My schedule is as follows:
Week 1: Proxy/blockout sculpt in Zbrush
Week 2: Finish sculpt in Zbrush
Week 3: Prototype 3D printing
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| My reference, I took the illustration on the left and made an orthographic Nendoroid version concept art for myself to follow |
Unfortantely I ran into a mutitude of issues while reposing my sculpt this week. Besides going back and forth a lot with the zrig and zpheres and rerigging, a restart of Zbrush ended up messing up my transpose master rig. After spending a long time posing, the error popped up after I tried to apply it. From what I can tell, it seems me having a duplicate tool as a backup in the file ended up causing the transpose master to mess up.
The other issue came with my Zbrush having issues saving. At first I thought it was viruses or my zbrush software having issues as the error mentioned antivirus. I paniced because it corrupted saves I had for my project. I ended up fixing it after realizing it was a storage issue.
I will be submitting late renders and pivoting my project at the moment to be just a high poly sculpt polypainted and rendered in Zbrush. I am sorry for the misshap and will polish it and bring it to where it should have been for industry.
For this sprint, I made sketches of the ending/winning illustration. These are displayed after the player defeats Emmi. I looked for battle scene references from movies and comics and examples online and found a few that fits the Metroid level. This upcoming sprint I will work to iterate on them.
There was a lot of catch up this week and unfortunately I still couldn't reach a place I am satisfied with. I ended up with a heavy migraine over the weekend and was unable to get as much work done as I had hoped. However I was able to mess around with creating and learning to make a zsphere rig to help with last week's posing. I also messed around with zremeshing techniques to see how a bake would turn out in a test bake. This upcoming week I will need to catch up to completion.
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| Zsphere Rig |
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| Test bake with what I have |
