A brief update

...because its been a while since I posted.

Well I've finished the model of my head/face now, dont have any renders handy, and I didnt blog at the end, so I'll get some of that stuff together explaining what I did and how/why. The hair was fun, styling it. I like those 3ds Max tools because theyre a lot less technical, and a lot more creative.

I only got hold of the files from Tim, for his ship, the other night, so I had a short time to do rigging etc. That isnt done, but its coming along well. I should be able to modify that once its done, to be used on the Victory. Its hard to get an idea of what the rigging actually is tied to, so its going to be a lot of guesswork. Anyway heres a shot of it so far (minus the actual ship because it takes up a lot of memory).

I'll probably be in uni a fair bit this week, because I'm noticing my laptop being a lot slower than the uni computers with this 3d stuff.

Good news that we now have online storage. Well done to Sam for finding that. I talked to one of the uni IT tech's but he explained that basically the firewall is so tough, we cant do much, which is why FTP was out of the question.

Ah, and network rendering is not possible in Uni, however I know some good ways to split up long tasks. Batch rendering may also prove to be very useful to us. Batch rendering allows you to build a que of jobs, similar to how we print in the uni. All of our renders will be put onto a list, and it will render one after another. If time becomes scarce it could mean we could que a lot of jobs, without having to set them up each time one finishes (meaning it could be left to do 20 things over the weekend). Although come to think of it, as we have all the computers in the room at disposal, we might not need to do it.

I'll post again soon with some stuff I found useful, the outcome of my face model, and an update of the ship rigging.