studio 2 journal entry week: 5 & 6

So, during Weeks 5 I went away to visit family, and was faced with a life changing decision. Needless to say, this was a pretty bad week mentally speaking and so not much work was done except for a few hours tweaking and catching up with written work.

However, during Week 6 I caught up allot and ended up finishing the entire project.

Sludge side on final render

Sludge front on final render

This week I mainly animated the lip sincing, UV unwrapped, textured in Substance, final tweaked the animation and rendered.

I had so many problems with getting the blend shapes to work, problems with the file referencing in regards to how everything working in the master file but not in the scenes where the file is referenced and how the Nurbs randomly didnt work in some scenes.

I cant tell you the answers on how to fix all of these as although I researched and researched the answers only worked some of the time and not others. So really I just got lucky in some scenes and unlucky in others. Also, although I was saving every few minutes, when I closed and reopened my files I had lost hours of work (for some reason they didnt save although I KNOW I DEFINITELY SAVED). And the Rendering... need i say more (10 minutes per stupid frame.... I ended up going into Uni and used 3 computers to render the rest of my frames or else it would have never ended).

Apart from the problems, I finished (YES!). And I dont think it ended up looking too bad.