I have a good news and a bad news.
THE BAD NEWS IS...
The tests had to end abruptly.
For the whole month of March, I conducted some tests to measure my skills in 3D Animation (which I'll be needing for Doodle Notes' Short, The Battle -Click here for more details-).
One of the tests is remodeling Olaf of Disney's Frozen.
Although, I failed to copy Olaf accurately -which ended up for me to create a new character named Olof (Click here for more details)-, I did learn stuff from it, like:
- The Importance of planning ahead before starting modeling a CG character.
- The importance of acquiring the knowledge about Topology or Mesh composition.
- Character Rigging knowledge.
- How fast and bad I model, texture, rig and animate.
After creating Olof, I decided to take the challenge up a notch by remodeling Elsa of Disney's Frozen and do it accurately this time.
I spent one whole week just modeling the head (as you see on top).
Unfortunately, yesterday(March 31, 2014), while doing a test render, my laptop crashed. I thought that it would still be fine after I turn it on -because it's been crashing so many times within the week anyways- so without worrying I just expected to re-render it after restarting, but when I opened the Elsa project file, it shows this:
From one week's worth of work to create this:
After a crash, nothing's left but this:
All I felt was this:
I did learn a lot of stuff while creating the head though, like:
- Cartoon Head Topology
- Modeling the face, ear, mouth, teeth, gums, etc.
- Planar Modeling Vs Box Modeling
- My laptops endurance to a high poly model.
- AND CREATE A BACK UP OF THE PROJECT FILE BEFORE RENDERING!!!!!
Modeling Elsa's head also gave me ideas of how I'm going to create;
- CG Cartoon Hair
- CG Cartoon Eyelashes and
- CG Cartoon Eyebrows
that will make it refreshing for my laptop and easier for me but not compromising the excellence.
It also gave me ideas on how I'm going to texture my CG characters (although I never get the chance of giving Elsa an excellent Texture).
AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS!!!
I'LL BE RESUMING THE MAIN PROJECTS!
Since I made a deal yesterday that I will not be redoing the Elsa Project test if I can't recover it (and trust me I tried everything the Blender forums said to recover it and still no use), I decided to continue with the main projects.
Yes. Projects. With an "s".
Because I've got a lot of things in store for you guys and one of them is Doodle Notes' upcoming short entitled, THE BATTLE.
Won't really spoil to you the story since it's just a short so the picture would be enough for now (or you can click here to see more. :))
Another one of the project is a book that I've written 4 years ago and I'm currently editing right now. The book is called, "Don't Wanna Fall Again"
I'll be giving you updates in the near future when it's up.
Finally, one of the main projects I got in mind would be this:
This is a story that I came to imagine 8 years ago. It undergo many revisions so I found it difficult to finish it.
It would be presented to you as a Komiks first and hopefully in the future be made a movie. (I'll make it a movie!!!!) Bad news for my English friends out there, it would be in Filipino but I may translate it when it becomes too interesting to not translate. :)
So yeah!
These are just the main projects that I got in mind right now. I still haven't mentioned other ideas I have for the future projects but let's leave that to the worries of tomorrow shall we?
For now, you'll be hearing these projects from me more often so if you're interested, just stay tuned!
ANYWAYS!
This is MJ Vilches of Doodle Notes.
"BRINGING FORTH AWESOMENESS TO GLORIFY THE AWESOME!"
Over and Out.
every thing will be ok! do you want to know how many time i modeled elsa just to get the shape right. and i made a monster... http://imgur.com/a/CYVUn
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