What's Next

What I plan on doing next is taking these renders into Photoshop and doing some quick draw overs of things that I still want to add that may be relevant to the cartoon they came from, little hints of my favorite episodes or moments. This way I have better understanding of what needs to be in there rather than modeling without direction. A soundtrack is also something I will be looking into. By the end of this week (Friday or Saturday) I plan to have the Photoshop draw overs finished, and a proper asset list for each scene written out. Then next week I want to begin UV unwrapping and texturing the first home(Powerpuff Girls).

Updated WIP

Updated WIP

Schedules

Thesis Schedule:

Personal Schedule:

Update

Since the break I was able to re-work my schedule since the software I needed to texture were unavailable tome while I was at home. This means that I mainly focused on modeling instead of getting right into texturing. I also have been able to get out of the block that I was hitting before going on break, everything is now on track. Two of the homes are coming together in terms of the modeling, and the last home is in the works now. Some more good news came when I first got back to school, I emailed the 3D artsist Sergio Raposo, my style inspiration, for my thesis, and he replied. He thanked me for being inspired by his work and told me that if I had any issues or wanted to ask anymore questions I was free to do so. He also told me some tips and tricks on how he creates his works. I am on a tighter personal schedule that requires me to spend a large chunk out of the week dedicated to my thesis.

I'm Stuck :(

I have currently been stuck in my modeling progress for a while, as the homes are not coming out in the style that I have been imagining them in, so I am just trying to focus on other things, and hopefully that will help me get back up to speed and get over this hump I have been having. As of right now I am looking up music to help with pacing for the mail truck to follow in these short animations. I am also looking at just creating looping GIF sets of each home. Due to my poor college-student status I am currently looking at music on Royalty Free Websites.

I regards to the homes, one of my classmates definitely gave me a push in the right direction. I spent so much time this semester imaging what the homes will look like in 3D that I foolishly never really took into consideration the 2D way they were drawn. I have since tried pushing and pulling vertices on the models to create the similar disported shapes shown in the drawings of the original homes, the results are looking much better! I will however still be adding certain elements that the homes may not have originally had but keeping the same color scheme and overall shapes of the homes is important.

One Sentence and Paragraph(Revised)

Now that the semester for Thesis testing and Documentation is coming to an end I will be revisiting the one sentence concept description, and the one paragraph concept description, and all my other studies to re-evaluate what I have done so far, researched, and discovered in this process.

One Sentence Conceptual Description(Revised)
My thesis is to recreate 3 different traditional 2D homes using a 3D medium to challenge my ability to create a cohesive world that these homes can share, while at the same time studying how the change in medium effects the feeling of the homes.

One Paragraph Conceptual Description(Revised)
My thesis is to recreate 3 different traditional 2D homes, from 3 different TV networks that I enjoyed as a kid, and incorporate them into a cohesive 3D world, where they can co-exist. The reason for this is not only to study the feeling these homes have in taken out of their stylized 2D form and put into 3D. My goal is to not only enjoy the feeling of creating homes I once had so much fun pretending to be apart of, but also to maintain their stylized appearance with slight alterations, and high detailed texturing.