What If? Metropolis - Final Crit Presentation

What If? Metropolis Final Crit by Noah Greenhalgh on Scribd

Updated Orthographic Drawings W.I.P

Maya and Illustrator Face Net

For this tutorial I created a polygon cube, Using the UV edit tool I transformed it into a net and placed it into illustrator and drew on a design using the pen tool. 

Attempt 1

At first I designed a small creature. But I really didn't like how this looked, I wanted to try a design that overlapped onto other sides of the cube. Also I felt that the design was too simple.

Attempt 2

This was the second design I tried. This was a lot quicker to make and also I prefer this design a lot more. I had to tweak the design a little on Illustrator before I exported it and transferred it onto my cube model. 

Illustrator Cube Face Net



This was the outcome of transferring the file on illustrator to the 3d Cube Model. I'm really please with the outcome. The process was a lot easier than I thought it would be, I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable with Maya the more I use it.

Monster Character Design Work in Progress

Scanned Rough Drawing

Colored drawing using Adobe Illustrator

For this design challenge I was asked to design a Monster inspired by the Characters from Monster's Inc University. I had to pick out of a cup pieces of paper that had random numbers that represented how many arms, legs, and eyes my monster would have. I chose 6 eyes, 3 arms, and one leg. It was really interesting thinking of how to incorporate these elements into my monster design, I have a few very rough thumbnail sketches that I will try to add to this post at a later date. After I had drawn out a rough sketch of my final design and scanned it onto my USB using a printer, I used Adobe Illustrator to draw the line art. I used the pen tool for this, and this was a technique that definitely took me a lot of time to get used to. I didn't use a tablet at all for this drawing, everything was drawn by mouse. It was really interesting exploring a digital drawing technique that doesn't involve using a graphics tablet. I also think that using this method gives you very clean results. I colored The drawing by using the live paint bucket tool and pen tool, for the highlights and shadows I adjusted the opacity and settings of the highlights and shadows layers. This process was frustrating at times because I don't think I fully understand it yet, but for a first try, i'm pretty impressed with myself.

 The reason why this post is currently a work in progress is because there are a few details I need to clean up, like the visible brush strokes on the glasses, and I also wanted to try adding a gradient effect to the monsters tail.