This week I have been a little preoccupied with other modules and trying to come up with ideas now I have the theme of my work and output decided on. So in a previous post I mentioned how I want to get into creating game assets, I can’t do that if I lack the fundamental knowledge on how to make an asset. Since I am working on a laptop I needed to consider what I can do as far as hardware limitations will allow me to. With this in mind and a tutorial meeting with Jon we decided that it’d be best to focus on film so I can learn the basics and then once I have basic knowledge of the theory behind working with film I could potentially move on to games in the next semester.
So what else has happened this week? Oh yeah, we had another masterclass for game asset design and was looking into how it worked although we “only scratched the surface” to borrow James’ pun it was an incredibly helpful class as I plan to use this software for my project(s) when it comes to the texture painting side. We explored smart materials, how to paint onto the models etc but also we had a breif look into how useful Substance Painter is compared to the ‘old’ way of texture painting. It also turns out that it revolves mostly around masks and the usual “White means on, Black means off” way of working that I recall from compositing and the matte paining I did last year. All there is to do now is, get stuck in and have a play as that seems to be the best way of learning for me at the moment…
Which brings me onto my next thing.
I made a model in Blender earlier today, nothing overly complicated… Well it’s starting to get complicated but I had decided to put aside most of today to have a play and see what I could make in Blender, the main source of inspiration is that of a water tank. Then I added a few pipes and a powerbox that somehow seemed to give it a steampunk style vibe. Now I have to decide on what the final product will look like once I take it into substance painter.
Here is a .gif of the project because who doesn’t like them?
https://i.gyazo.com/0982af3d05b9f5bba270b903fea5e856.gif