Sculpting my Creature

Updated Timeline:

My original timeline was well set out but I got into full holiday mode around about week 4  and I haven't done a lot of work to stay up to date. So I'm shifting my timeline around a bit so I can get things done.

New Timeline:

✓Week 1:

• Write brief 
• Research
• Design character 

✓Week 2: 

• Modify character after feedback (legs, how does he walk)
• Research walk cycle, animals to base his walk/legs from

✓Week 3:

• More muscle and anatomy studies (of other animals and my character) on paper
• Draw character standing vs sitting
• Sculpting character in loose T pose (research Z pose)
• Start modeling props in Maya
• Create formative assessment PDF 

✓Week 4:

• Formative assessment 
• Research hair tutorials

✓Study Week 1:

• Model the majority of props in Maya
• Cry because you did fuck all and now you're behind

Study Week 2:

• Cont. to cry because have so much work to do this week
• Draw digital finals of character (skeleton and muscle)
• Draw my character (rough) in loose T-Pose for reference while sculpting
• Experiment with textures and colours 
• Sculpt and finish character
• Finish all props in Maya
• Add details to props in Zbrush

Week 5:

• Add hair to character and moss to certain props
• Start texturing character/props

Week 6:

• Cont. hair
• Texturing
• Tutorials on lighting

Week 7: 

• Lighting character
• Research Rendering

Week 8:

• Finish lighting
• Start rendering character (How many stills do I want to render?) 1-2

Week 9: 

• Rendering character
• Research Image compositing

Week 10:

• Finish rendering 
• Start image compositing 
• Create backgrounds in Photoshop

Week 11:

• Finalizing Image(s)
• Planning presentation speech 
• PDF presentation/ report of research
• Small project documenting technical research applied to a context

Week 12:

• Practice presentation 
• Present
• Hand in 

When it comes to uni, yes.

Modeling in Maya (props, Pots and Pans)

Props so Far: