Hey I've just spent the day watching video tutorials of Maya 6 online (yes very exciting) and I have to say now that I've seen the program the entire task suddenly seems a lot less daunting, There's a simple video of a guy modelling an apple which I might try, well I might do a pear instead just to mix things up a bit. But yeah the program seems user friendly enough so I'll hopefully get into Waverly either today or tomorrow but we'll see what happens because I've got to go and look at a house tomorrow.
Also I haven't just been watching tutorials all day I also had a look at the new Star Wars film The Clone Wars as part of my 'research', I know it gets a lot of criticism for seeming like George Lucas is riding the Gravy train but it is rather good. But in terms of my project I'm not concerned with how good a film it is what I am interested in is the look of the characters.
I posted yesterday about how I wanted a cartoon style and I think that this could work really well in regards to my avatar. Here you can see a clear difference in the two different styles of interpreting the same character. The 3D one however still keeps the characters looks but adds some cartoon features such as bigger cheek bones in order to transfer him into the 3D environment. What is interesting is that Lucasfilm clearly chose this look as now fully true to life animation can be achieved, however this style helps to pitch the film to its young target audience.
I'm definitely going to go along these lines when producing my own avatar but maybe take it even further to make an avatar with a retro chunky style similar to some to the Rareware games. However for the second this is just a glimpse into the future and I'll stick to modelling apples and pears for the second. Ill hopefully have an update in the next few days showing off shiny fruit.
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