Finished Dragon

Here is the final dragon completed and can be placed in After Effects and then "added" here I a qucik demonstration of the dragon and plain black background.

OUDF 503 3rd time lucky with dragon.

I've decided to not use Zbrush and just maya this time and the results are better.

This is the dragon after a hour and I'm already loving it and not finding a problem with it  

Just need to texture it and then onto animating it.

OUDF 503 Trying to import into Maya

After save this model in .OBJ 

I found out that this model has over 1 million faces and took a day and a bit to load onto maya and is not really usable now in Maya.

OUDF 503 Disaster in ZBrush

So I've found out in ZBrush If I save the file in comes out in a 2.5D which can't be remodelled in ZBrush which means I have to restart.

I have learnt I need to save the file as a .obj which keeps the 3D data together.

So restarting the dragon I made two slightly different designs

This is the first one with just basic shape and horns, I like this because I can place eyes in later and the horns on the chin are just reference to place later , I dislike the shape size because it's big enough compared to the dragon concepts.

This is one similar to above but adjusting the horns to a different set, I like these ones but I feel it's not right on this model but maybe on a different one.

From following a guide on how to make Dragons I followed it loosely due to me not making it like the person who I was following so I made adjustments like the nose and horns, but this I still don't like ids the size of the head and neck.

 Adjusting the head size.

Final Versions

I really like my final version and by using basic spikes in the head I can place polygons over the top to create horns in Maya then animate the head of the dragon.

Responsive Using ZBrush

For this I thought it was best to use ZBrush which is a modelling tool designed to do this type of thing.

I started with the basic sphere in Zbrush and modelled the head of the dragon from there.

This is what i came up with after learning the tutorials. I really like this because it's very effective and quick however it starts to tear and stretch some of the polygon faces so I need to fix this later on.

Side View

After another hour or so I managed to make this first design.

 I really like this with all the spikes and the detail is noticeable, I still haven't been able to change the level of detail sadly but when I do it will look much better.

OUDF503 - Responsive

In this module its aiming for the students to work cross-course, understanding cross-disciplinary approaches, work collaboratively or respond to an external event or activity with a significant pedagogic value.

I think this module will be interesting because it will help us or encourage us to go and get our names out there. I think from reading the brief it would be the best thing in my opinion to do a few small projects which are very good, therefore showing more of a variety then just one big project.

A few outcomes I hope to achieve is to learn more about the work of film/editing and learn the work flow of researching/investigating to creating the ideas and showing them to the boss/commissioner, keeping to brief, and self-management skills in managing my workloads and meeting deadlines; but not just technical but social skills in being confident and saying "yes I can do this", not "erm maybe yeah"

This module will be also be exploring the possibilities of using transmedia theories, processes and techniques. This should be interesting.