Senior Year Investigation 1: What theme or concept will you explore this year?

Similar to last year I tried to stick around a concept and didn't really firmly decide what I wanted to do because I didn't really understand/know what I wanted to do with my ideas and 3D modeling. However this year I know the theme that I want to stick to and that would be Fantasy. Now fantasy is a broad term but with it being so broad comes the opportunity to use in many different ways from mechanical to magical and everything in between.

https://www.lefthudson.com/anime-fantasy-landscape-wallpaper/anime-fantasy-landscape-wallpaper-new-anime-artwork-fantasy-art-landscape-wallpapers-hd-desktop-and-mobile-backgrounds-combination/

The reason I choose fantasy is because it's ideas are something I'm also thinking about creating and a lot of my work that I have done revolves around fantasy. Examples like above are what I adore so much about fantasy, it creates a world beyond what we experience that just makes you wonder about it and I love that kind of art. My main idea of what I would want to work on with this theme is to make a landscape style model with my own idea on how it looks. Diffidently something the screams otherworldly such as the image above and if I can finish this idea make a little animation out of it, some sort of short story. My goal this year is to improve my skills while also using this improvement to actually create something meaningful instead of stepping from mini project to mini project. My goal would to be to at least create two areas, If I could end the year off with this goal and like how they look in the end i'll be happy. I attempted to create a medieval village in the past but It just never went anywhere so I really want to get somewhere with this project. Some other great examples of what i'm trying to accomplish

https://img5.goodfon.com/wallpaper/nbig/8/2a/vid-razvaliny-razrusheniia-fantasy-peizazh-art-landscape-fan.jpg

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Overall this year I want to use fantasy as a concept and truly create something that I can put my
effort into a stick with it the entire year to create a truly great end product with these fantasy ideas.

Junior End Year Portfolio

(Home) Investigation 17

During this week I took more time and worked on a actual creature. It's a plant based creature from a game that someone requested I make for them. Took some time and some redoing but I finally got it to a point to where I think it looks well. I'll be doing some more creatures and hopefully I can power through them and they turn out well.

(Home) Investigation 16

Over the week I continued work on the preying mantis bakugan. After that I attempted to make something based of a Pokemon. I put my own little twist on it which to me turned out ok but I don't feel is my best work. I am going back to working on another bakugan and hopefully that one turns out well.

(Home) Investigation 15

During this week I have taken the time to work on the same idea I have been doing but with another character. This time I have attempted to recreate the one called "Juggernoid" and overall im happy how it turned out. Making it was overall mostly enjoyable and really enjoy the end product. After the creation of the object itself I put it into the six colors the show uses and to me looks really well in each color combination. After finishing this guy i've taken attempts to starting the next one which is praying mantis like and the head has been giving me some trouble. Whats been harder for this new one is that since I don't own the physical version of this new one unlike the turtle one I just have to base all my work on references. Doing so the head has been a bit rough so I'll have to look at some more references with multiples different views so I can make it with me being happy how it turns out in the end. Hopefully im happy with it the next time I do a investigation next week.

Home (Investigation 14)

Over the course of the week I continued my little project and was able to finish the first one and start another one. I'm planning on building a whole little collection of these guys for this project with friends i am doing. Doing these little things have really been forcing me to get creative on how I make them, such as with the blue one I attempted to use knife projecting which turned out really well. I am starting another this week and hope to finish it and start another by the start of the next week. Overall I feel this mini project is helping to improve my skills and hope I learn some things by the end of this.

(Home) Investigation 13

At home I've been working on a mini project, it's working on making these little objects from this show I used to watch. It was something little I wanted to work on and see how far I could take it. This is one i'm working on at the moment and want to see how far I can take it. Hopefully I like how it ends up. I attempt to try making some more after this one and hopefully I can get them to turn out pretty good.

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                                                      Intention Definition & Exploration Ideas

Throughout the third marking period I did a lot testing with new ideas and what I felt I wanted to do with my work. I worked on a good bit of little projects that interested me such as weapon making and working on some things for friends besides the story I am working on. I have also decided how I want to take my work with my main of idea of chosen by destiny. I plan to make sort of scenes from the ideas I have instead of an animation and see how that kind of thing turn out. With that kind of idea I can put more effort into the whole scenes themselves instead of throughout a whole animation where I struggle and don't like the work I output. I had also a little project given to me by Mr. Bomboy himself with creating a 3D model of a plexi glass case to help with the creating of my card box.

                                                                               Planning

For me this marking period was a lot of jumping around to different idea from little personal projects to the main work. Besides planning the creation of a CVTV March scene there was not a lot of planning onto what I would move onto next after working on something.

                                                                              Producing

There was a lot of different things I worked on and looking back it I am glad how they turned out from little characters to different types of weapons. Over the marking period I went over with a friend on how he makes weapons and he taught me his style on how he does it. With that knowledge I attempted at making some works of what I was interested in. I worked in a lot of different areas from fiction and non-fiction and enjoyed working on each one I completed. Besides making some stuff for just in the software I also worked on making a case that would hold multiple glass pieces and make a image and 3D printing it out. I was real proud of the end product as it worked and the pieces fit like a glove in the case.

         

                                                                 

                                                                              Evaluating

Over this marking period I have definitely felt like I have accomplished more than the previous one with the work I reflect back on. I definitely stretched out into multiple different area with what the different things I worked on and even though it was nice I definitely plan to focus more on the story mainly during the 4th marking period. Compared to the start of this marking period I feel a lot more comfortable with the new blender and even prefer it now over the previous version now that I know what im doing. 

                                                                              Integrating

I have definitely been applying what I am learning into my work to better it and better myself with how I create my work. These weapons are a great example of that as I take what I learned and use it to create these things that I can be proud of making. Blender 2.8 also has all these new features that make my work look better and I've been trying to take advantage of that when creating things such as the golden sword to make my work look better. Overall I plan to continue growing and learning as I enter this fourth marking period and hope to create some awesome work at the end of this school year that I can be really proud of.

Investigation 12

I have spent the better part of this week working a specific weapon. I wanted to see how polished I could make one so I threw this together this week. Looking back on it I like the design of it and feel accomplished on how it turned out. I have also decided on how I want to do my work specifically in the future. For me im not that into animations, I find the whole process aggravating from start to finish and don't get any real enjoyment out of it. I get a lot more enjoyment of creating and setting up scenes, which is how I will take my work going forward. I still want to do the "Chosen by Destiny" idea, just instead of doing a whole animation I plan on doing shots of the story. I wan't to see how me going in this direction turns out and if im happy with this decisions.

Investigation 11

Over the course of the week I took more time to decide how I just make the main character. I decided to give him a sort of cloak design as well just because I like how it looks. As of the moment I working on the feet trying to get them to look like shoes and it has been sort of difficult at the moment but im trying to make it to my liking. I have also re-worked one of the swords I made previously and made it more red and black with a swirling handle and like how it looks more. Besides working on the main character i've done some work on making another card box. I need to work on measurements for the box and seeing how it turns out. During next week I plan to finish the shoes and the rest of the character and work on the map.


                                 

Investigation 10

Over the course of the week I started working on two models. One is another weapon which is in the shape of a scythe, the other a humanoid model which will end up being the main character. I started the week with working on the scythe which definitely challenged me with how I had to make it. It had a part of it which layered over the lower part but also connected to the scythe so it was a bit hard to get that look to happen into the weapon itself. After the weapon was finished I then tried to work on the main character. When I usually make character I end up making them out of separate parts and joining them together, so for this one I tried to make it all out of one cube which I feel turned out very well. So far with the character im finishing his upper half and then attempt to start with the shoes so they just don't look like stubs. I plan to do hair for the character but I don't know how I plan to tackle this problem yet. I plan to also give him some kind of contrasting effect to the demon antagonist so you can tell they are meant to interact in some sort of way. Over the next week I plan to continue working on the main character and get his body finish so I can work on creating a face and hair for him.