Week 1 - Pre - production/ ZBrush Modeling

We started week one of our Studio 2 class with a lot of work. Our classes for Studio 2 were scheduled every Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday weekly. Our first class we got to meet our professor, Sir Amit. He introduced himself to us and we introduced ourselves as well, after the introductions he gave us a brief foundation of our unit this trimester, then he continued on giving us tips and advice on how to pass/ ace our class with him.

After the formalities were were grouped into 4 teams with 4 group members in each team, but in my group we are 5 because the whole class are not evenly matched. After the groupings I was introduced to my group mates who were, Arryl, Natasha and Rayyan. We had one more group member who was Murtaza but he was absent that day. By the end of the class me and my group had a quick short meeting to discuss ideas about our commercial, Arryl was nominated as our group lead and by the end of the meeting we were assigned to brainstorm ideas for our commercial overnight.

The following day everyone had multiple ideas for our commercial, but after pitching it to Amit all our ideas were scratched, Amit told us that our ideas were not bad but they were too linear we had to be more simplistic yet creative with our ideas, he advised us to try and think of a genre first before thinking of a commercial that we wanted to do. Once I got home that same night I emailed everyone concerning our consultation with Amit and told them that we had to think of new ideas for the commercial overnight once more.

On Thursday of Feb/ 8/ 2018, we had a group meeting and everyone had a new set of ideas for us to pitch to Amit once again. He approved two of our ideas which were the Energy Drink Daredevil commercial and the Chocolate Bar Moon Landing Parody commercial and told us to choose between the two. We chose the Moon Landing Parody because we had a lot of ideas for it and we thought it can lead us to a creative approach for the commercial.

Over the weekend Arryl assigned us tasks that we need to do for preparation of our Pitch Presentation that will be held on week 2, I was assigned to do the Storyboard and Rough model for the character, also everyone was assigned to do their own concept of our product.

During the weekend I started studying about Zbrush for the rough character model because I wanted top quality for our finalized models and also I've been longing to study ZBrush for myself as well.

I started studying ZBrush through YouTube videos and tried my best to make a rough concept of character. The video that I chose to focus on is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO--0h8XHiw&t=1206s it is by EDGE - CGI 3D Tutorials. I took down notes as well for hot keys of brushes, what their purpose are and controls of the app.

This was what I was able to model for the time being.

I did not follow the proper topology of an actual astronaut because me and my group decided that we were going for a cartoon style for our commercial.

And this is the story board that I made as well over the weekend for our commercial.

And here is the design concept of the bar of how I imagined it would look like.