Prototyping - week 10

This week I was tasked to continue with texturing the arm and to get started rigging it if I am able. Well I wasn't able to get started with rigging because I had separate pieces, so I had to piece it back together and even though it's a simple texture for the armor, it still takes a decent amount of time to figure out what looks good on the model. What I have so far I think looks pretty good and with a little more work, it should look really good. We're coming up on a 3 week break, so in the interim I will be working on finishing up the texture work and getting it rigged before we start back up again in January. Below is what is done so far.

Prototyping - week 9

This week after showing the class the new "more organic" arm model, I was tasked with laying out the UV's and to start texturing the arm. I used a simple cylindrical map to get most of it done, due to the cylindrical shape of the object. The rest I cobbled together where the cylindrical map failed to map the UV's correctly via planar mapping. All in all it wasn't very difficult and the process also revealed a few flaws in the model that I was able to correct, so that's helpful as well. Below are some pics of the UV maps and the beginning of the texture work.

Prototyping - week 8

Last week I wasn't able to attend class unfortunately, because I had to move. I wasn't able to get any feedback on the arm model, however I did make a finished rough draft of the model and blocked in some colors on the arm so I could show it to class this week. Below are the results.