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I started on the mech project rather late... after its due date. It was definitely difficult to make time for it and try to solve problems while also having to deal with deadlines and other problems in life, but it was honestly an enjoyable experience in the end. I followed along the tutorial but always added my own spins on almost everything, either because I was struggling too much to replicate the process or because I found it more interesting the way I wanted. I loved using help from past tutorials to use on this one, because it felt like everything was finally coming together. There were definitely many struggles to overcome, like for example, instead of the front of the mech going back into the oval to create the illusion of a visor, it pushed the back segment of it down, making the visor stick out a little with a ridge in between. After a few minutes of hopelessly trying to fix it, I noticed it actually looks good if you do it to a certain degree, and I kept it that way. My next problem was something that was actually my fault. I did not add more segments to the face of the shape that made up the base of the leg, so instead I made an extremely basic star shape on the joint, and later when almost finishing the assignment I added a secondary polygon to compliment the joint and added the ring-like shape i was supposed to in the beginning. In the end, it was a pretty good looking joint. After that, I made the full leg with the mid joint and the foot, which was rather difficult considering the foot kept looking like an unappealing dome shape. I dragged a few vertex points up to add more definition to shape and surround the base leg a bit more. I was not extremely satisfied with the end result but it was good enough to the point where I could look at it and have it fit in. Last, I used the same steps from the Dice project to color the main oval shape black on the visor area and a forest green in the surrounding area. I colored it the same color scheme as a character from the Halo Franchise (favorite franchise) and rotated the legs to various positions for its photos.
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My name is Mario, and am currently studying Digital Design and Game Art in DSA. This is my class blog Archives
January 2023
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