Presentation

Now that the Blockout was done, this week we had to present our ideas to the class. For this I created a gantt chart to show when I will create my final models and to make make sure that I kept to all deadlines.

This images are sadly quite small, so you will need to click on them to be able to see what im showing more clearly

Here is an image of how Ive broken it down more clearly. Ive done it so I finish the diorama first, so I cant get this out of the way and I can spend the rest of the time focusing on the character.

I then went to talk about my own personal milestones, this includes finishing the diorama, then finish modelling the character, texturing everything and then finally rendering it all out in UE4. I feel this are quite suitable milestones to have set.

I then went to talk about possible issues I may encounter, such as modelling the character. As Ive spoken about this before, this will be my first time modelling a character, so I will be watching many tutorials, which may make me lose quite a bit of time. I also mentioned working with Zbrush and UE4, as these are both new pieces of software I am not completely comfortable with, I will also be spending quite a but of time watching tutorials for them as well as getting used to the lay out.

I also talked about minor parts of my piece that I may change, such as small parts of the textures on Uncle Sam. As well as how I am going to finish the diorama.

 Here is the final blockout cinematic, I am quite happy with how it turned out at this stage and I feel it already has quite a bit of atmosphere to it. When I go to do this for real I plan on changing some of the cameras and possible adding another. With the one that pans around I plan on bringing it closer to the model to show him off better, but for now I just wanted to show how the environment looks as well.

The majority of the feedback I got was just asking how I am going to integrate Uncle Sam into the scene more, and as I have spoken about this before, anything I think would work would add too much work and would make keeping the the plan hard, I will however think about this more as I continue and will come to a final idea within the next week or so.