Capstone Part 2

This past week has been one filled with midterms in my other classes, as such I have been working to balance studying for them, while also continuing to work on my capstone. I have been honored to have Dr. Linehan who is the director of the ATEC program, guiding me on my capstone work. With him I have been able to set milestones to meet, and have now mapped out the final two milestones to meet.

April 11th: This is when I expect to have all of the buildings done, after this I do not expect to work on any more modeling for the project unless it is absolutely necessary. After this the goal will be to unwrap and texture all of my assets. Because I started this project with transferring unwrap to save time, I believe that this will not take much more than a week at most.

The following two weeks I will be working on texture mapping including spec and bump. My original goal was to include normal mapping, but I believe that will take up too much time at the moment, and will hold it over for my summer refinements. Either way I recognize that this will be my crunch time.

May 2nd: This is the day everything is due, the project is finished, textured, and lit. At this point I will provide the final version to Dr. Linehan for his approval.

These are the two milestones I have left to meet, and with my tests out of the way. I believe I have a clear path to meet them before I shift my focus to finals in my other classes.

Expect more pictures from the final two buildings up within the next week or so.

Capstone Part 1

As I end my time in college and move on to a career in 3D art, I have decided to start a blog to chronicle my work, and hopefully my upcoming successes. Currently, I am working on my capstone, of which will dominate many of my blog posts over the next few months.  My capstone project involves a 3D re-creation of the Germany pavilion at the Epcot Center in Florida. I began this journey over a year ago when I visited the area and fell in love with the architecture, the variety, color, and uniqueness of the buildings was something to behold.

When my capstone finally began this spring, I knew the daunting task that I was facing. I know that I still have a lot of work that lies ahead of me, and yet I am more than half way done with the modeling. I hope to be finished by early April; at which time I will be moving on to unwrapping, texturing, and lighting

So how does it look so far? Below are the models and the corresponding pictures that I used to model from.