Sabrina Yun
Since the last checkpoint, I edited the objective trunk by extending it vertically. I also moved some of the stems of the tree so that the ball in the tree can be more fitted in the center. For the bottom of the objective, there is a lotus that I modeled. The main problem of the lotus is that it’s too symmetrical and “perfect.” I’m planning on changing it up so that it looks more natural. I also need to fix the alarm clock model that is creating errors in Unreal.
Sabrina's Google Drive Link
Tommy Herrera
Tommy's Google Drive Link
Mae Dolan
Since the last checkpoint, I modeled a bed and picture frame for the bedroom scene in our animation. I spent a while on the bed figuring out how to make the cloth look realistic. I also worked on the tree and edited it based on a new concept picture; I made it twistier and added more platforms.
Mae's Google Drive Link
Ara King
Lotus Concept:
The goal object which will be used to guide the player is a tree-like structure emerging from lotus. The concept for the lotus was meant to communicate the themes of serenity and harmony with its geometric design composed of smooth pedals. I had originally intended to add more petals to the lotus, but I found that 3 cascading layers of 5 petals each was an arrangement that which resembled the look of real lotuses, while also being a bit more regular than the actual plant.
Shadow Rig and Animation:
The rig for the shadow character is fairly simple since it does not have limbs. The animation for the character needed to be a seemingly common, but off putting idle action, so I animated the character with a slow breathing action which can be looped during the shadow’s other actions to make it appear alive.
Flyer Rigg and Animation:
The Flying eel like creature’s animations are still being worked on. The intended result is to create a creature which appears to fly through wavy ribbon-like undulations of its body. I am currently looking for alternate rigging methods to meet this end.
Will Tallent
Will has been working ableton to start designing the sound production. I have reached out to a violin player to get live recordings of the strings which will be manipulated digitally to add a creepy or peaceful mood. He has also been modeling the mineshaft, which is the intro to the dream environment and will be based on Langford so that the players in the architecture will feel as sense of familierity. I have also created a new schedule for the rest of the semester and created a to-do-list which covers all aspects of production needed before the final product.
Will's Google Drive Link
Taylor Mullins
Since the last checkpoint, our team hit a bit of a snag regarding the Gear VR and our game. We spent about a week running tests and gauging what all we could fit into an environment while conserving computational power so that it wouldn’t lag on the phone, however, we came to learn that even with a very simple scene, the Gear maxes out at 60 fps. For this reason, we have decided to drop the Gear VR for the time being. However, there is a good chance that we will create something smaller and simple (like a side project) to launch with the Gear. We simply couldn’t fathom simplifying our game enough for the phone to support it. That would have meant that we would have had to sacrifice most of the work that we have already done.
So after we worked out our plans to proceed with a version of the project that can be launched from a desktop, I proceeded with triangulating all of the rock and cave models and reducing the meshes multiple times so as to maximize efficiency. Since I altered the models, I also had to re-surface all of the rock formations and cave models. From there, I used the plans that Tommy laid out for the cave and reconstructed it, using larger and more simplified models. Now, we have a fully constructed cave. I have also gone on to add the glowing mushrooms along the paths of the cave. These will act as a sort of guide and help the player move along the intended paths. I am finishing up set dressing this week.
Taylor's Google Drive LinkYou Jin Kim
(2/15~2/18)
Mushroom
Concept- guidance the path that character walks through the story. Assets that will show many
times inside of environment.
Disk mushroom(2/15)
-growing on the cave wall. Light glowing-very important to dark place of cave. At first, even it is
disk mushroom, it shouldn’t have clean edge around it. Even these assets have important role to guide
the character, some kind of twisted features are needed. Badly squashed- scaled down so disk
mushroom
Ball mushroom(2/16~2/18)
-growing on the ground. Addition of tentacles and wrinkled stem to the ball mushroom.
Features are like these are easy to catch attention.
Flying worm(~2/21)
Concept-theme of ‘free’, initial intent was flying creature but then thin layer of worm would give
mysterious impression to main character and view. Putting neon color
Previous drawings are easy shape and yet are structured for flying because of themes. Some
concepts are complicated shapes while others have simple ones based on sub concepts.
3/2/2015
Continued from the flying creature (2/21~24)
-Modeling is started from cube and it is stretched out to be more like from concept art I made
for. Extrude is key point here to make arms like shape for creatures; those arms will be shell armor for
the creature. From the concept art, the creature has wider arms than the model one but the wide of
arms does not matter for the model hugely so I left the way it is for now.
Field Vegetation 01 (2/28~2/29)
-Named it as four tentacles for temporary. The concept art is from Ara from our group. This is
made by same techniques like other models but a bit challenge because of how those tentacles are
wrangled differently. For vary kinds, I could do move leaves (tentacles) many ways to give distinguish
shapes for them. If there are other options available for this model, it will be used for making many
different kinds.
Field Vegetation 02 (2/29~3/1)
-Named it as tall vegi for temporary. Another concept art from Ara. There is no complicated
modeling method for this model while it still needs another layer on its body to have transparent skin
for final model. The themes are similar to mushrooms and yet different since this field vegetation need
to be harmony with the scene.
As Model leading.
Mae -I asked and gave suggestions for Mae made for round jellyfish type to have wrinkle in
vertical ways. Just round shape is fine but I wanted the jellyfish model to have closer to the concept art
if it is possible.
Sabrina- I made suggestion over shadow figure to have white eyes. Based on the concept art to
our group, the shadow figure has eyes that give creepy looks. Other than the eyes, the model is very
close to concept art and group love how the model turned out.
Poster frame (3/2~3/3)
-Very simple model to do. There was not much of difficult with extruding the model. Just making
plane model was too simple to make so I had an idea for this poster frame to be as a valuable poster.
Some people put poster inside of photo frame so the poster is in good shape on the wall with caring
looks(or makes poster as more valuable to that one). So I started with cube model and scale up to make
long rectangle as poster shape then extruded the side to that poster was in photo frame.
Field Vegetation 05(3/4~3/10)
-Named as vegi holes since this one has so many holes to be. The base model one for this one
was sphere because overall shape was squashed ball type. So I had to start with sphere to be squashed
like concept art. I tried to use brush tool from Maya to pull and push the surface of model but it only
showed little bit of change and it was difficult with the brush tool. So I had to select each faces to pull
and push to make more squashed features be visible to the eyes. Also this model needed to have
thickness with it so people can see that this vegetation has weight. So I asked Will if this model needed
to be thick a bit and he said yes to the question and made suggestion for it. After I made many holes for
this vegi model and Will helped me with to make thickness to this model. And it turned out perfect
squashed vegetation with many holes model for our animation.
Field Vegetation 04(3/14~3/17)
-This one was named as crush vegi since some big force crushed this vegi into pool shapes. I
started with cylinder model and put many edges before I experimented with the shape. First of all, this
vegi model didn’t grow up straight so I had to move and rotate parts of model to give that impression.
Also the model needed to have bumps and craters on the surface so I had to extrude the faces and
move inside some to make those bumps and craters features on the surfaces. Also I had to do that
randomly so it won’t give any artificial feelings to people. Putting features at randomly on the model
was really challenging and took some time to that for each faces but I managed to pull closely to what I
had it for the picture and concept art.
You Jin's Google Drive Link
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