Nina

Proposal In Practice I tried to use Zbrush a little while modelling the rat character, but because I didn't really know what I was doing I quickly decided it would be easier and more efficient for me to use Maya.  I tried to use Houdini also when going to begin doing the hair, but again, I didn't really know what I was doing and I thought that xGen was working well enough that it made sense with me to go with that. I built up a few different layers within xGen in order to try and make the different layers of hair (short, fluffier hair on one layer/long, straggly hair on another layer to be the top coat). I found the xGen controls quite easy to work around and use. I followed an online tutorial to get a larger understanding of how xGen worked. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ijzPEtIyY )  I had an issue with weird square patches showing on the fur, I managed to mostly get rid of them by bumping the fur density up a ridiculous amo...

I made a mood board for my project. Down the side is the colour scheme that I think I will end up going with. The colours that I think that I am going to end up using will be blues and greens and some purples which I want to use in place of the ultra-violet that rats allegedly see. At the moment, the colours are more saturated than rats would see and I might look into de-saturating the tones a bit so theyre a bit closer to grey, but the colours themselves will probably stay the same. I have been working on my character concepts. So far I have drawn my storyboards and concepted for my two human characters. I intend to present the character boards for my two characters, possibly also my storyboards. The next thing I need to do is model my environment in Maya, as well as the Rat. So far I intend to use Maya to model the Rat and zBrush to paint it and make the textures look cool. Mainly because I am struggling to understand zBrush for actually building the model, but I think I will...