Lady One is Ready!

I used the nurb curve technique to make this. I'm happy with how my drawing translate to the wire form, I think it efficiently conveys what I want in a style than I can call my own. I encountered the problem of having the normals flipped. I've never comes across flipped nurb normals so I googled how to fix the problem. You go into the modelling tab and into Surfaces>Reverse Direction right at the bottom of the popup window. I also discovered that if you don't have a little nurbs circle to do Surfaces> Extrude and/or select multiple curves at once it doesn't create the polygons in the right way. The object/curves also have to be quite big so that the polygons aren't inverse which is why the maya grid seen in the picture above is super tiny. I found this process pretty fun.

Fresnel Effect

A term I learned today was Fresnel effect. It is when the edges of an object are more reflective.

This could be useful to understand not only for illustration but also somewhat for puddles. I'm sure there are more uses granted the fresnel effect indicates how smooth or rough the surface of an object is.

Emission Mapping and Other Notes

Today Regan and Lena sat down and taught me about emission mapping with some pretty interesting results.

Regan left this on my computer:

objects involved with emissive need to be static so that baking works... you need to bake.

emissive map should have an alpha channel, plug in to albedo and emission

standard shader should have transparency options.

BUZZWORDS!!!
PBR - Physically Based Shading (sometimes called Physically Based Shading)
Emission (in the context of unity GI)

In maya I was walked through creation a neon effect by upping the incandescence. The unity equivalent is emmission. From what I can see they work very similarly.

A difference is in Unity a thing called albedo is referred to. Albedo is both the alpha and the diffuse. This means that I can use cutout to have the alpha make work, but also the colour information weill be added through the albedo too.

Lena showed me a really cool thing that involved gridding up photoshop and effectively making an animation on a 3D object in unity.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterEmission.html This is all very vital information. It's worth reading about other things in here too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW19bguFoHg How to create a neon sign in maya. Very similar to what Lena taught.

Illustration of Perfect Society

The thing is, a "perfect society" isn't really something I believe can exist without really weird personal biases that lead to a variety of -isms that shouldn't be happening unless you're talking in such a vague abstract sense that nothing even matters anymore because what you're saying cannot physically apply to any plane of reality... So I drew what I wanted to draw. My idea of perfection is deeply tied to concepts of freedom. By doing what I wanted, I technically performed society running well. I used my instincts, and skill to create something to add to the world's narrative. But I did not tell anyone else that their ideas were wrong. Sounds ideal right.

Look at this

I rendered out the bubble guy at better quality to look at! I'm quite proud of him and I want to play around with Krita~

bubble guy arbitrary tasks thanks

This is what I animated in Krita when I thought about the water stock footage. It's a little bubble character slooshing his way up. I am uploading it as a gif captured with gyazo because Krita keeps giving me an error when I try export...

Dane's Journal Exercises that I did

I abstracted the idea of roman column building and fused it with the fluidity of animation. The abstraction resulted in a spirit that eats colour and light by deconstructing organics and items.

I modelled a still image by painting in photoshop. I believe that when the artist hands over a piece of art to be viewed, the interpretation is up to the viewer. Whilst I believe that this image represent past, present and future, one may interpret it as a struggle, or as a harmony. I think this variation in interpretation is what makes the piece capture all aspects of past, present and future.