This week we learnt more about lighting and different colors, along with how to make more complex shapes and formations. For the lighting, I actually joined 2B’s lesson, as I had a few questions to ask, and just thought a direct lesson would be more interesting than pre-recorded videos.
We experimented creating shapes by trying to make a gecko, under my request (we would later come to regret that, as they’re very peculiar animals that are hard to get to look right). I think I got its side view well enough, by using a variety of reference images I picked up, but I messed up somewhat when duplicating it to form the other half of the body; I didn’t center it right, so it came out with a slight gap along its middle that I couldn’t get to look right after much tinkering and experimenting with the program. Next time, I’ll make sure to align everything properly before attempting something like this.
Sorry for making you a freak of nature, gecko.
Anyway, that was a very useful exercise for my project; the tool we used for these sections will work great when I need to create clouds on the bottom of the surface. I’m still unclear on how to change the opacity of objects, as I asked both 3D tutors and neither could give me a direct response, but I’ll research it online until I find out how to do it adequately. It shouldn’t be too big a problem, overall.
The lesson on lighting was useful too; I’m thinking of just making my landscape a plain sunny day, but I could try challenging myself and create a sunset-like light, using the 3-point lighting we saw in the lesson for a more dramatic scene. I’ll see when I get around to it.
With all the other projects we have at the moment, I think I’ll put this project off for a little while, to focus on the animatic and book, but I’ll be back at it soon enough.