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Digital Matte Painting Project 1 - Virtual Plein Air

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03/04/2023 - 29/05/2023 (Week 1 - 4) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Digital Matte Painting / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Project 1 - Virtual Plein Air INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You will synthesise the knowledge gained in task 1 anddemonstrate ability to explore and generate 6 sets of matte painted concept based on chosen location via google maps capture or any high res photos. You are to analyse and implement painting techniques for aperiodic change of time with a theme to create photo realistic shot. You will start with color bashing and blocking to identify elements used in consideration of perspective, value, color palette,composition fundamentals etc to obtain believability and realism. Finally you will conclude by selecting and presenting their outputinterpretation in the instructed format/s  Blocking out 3 art work based on the images selected without color picking from the chosen photo. To choose 1 final art work that will be polished and final rendered.  Output render...

Anatomy and Digital Sculpture - Project 1: Stylized Character Blockout

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06/04/2023 - 19/05/2023 (Week 1 - 7) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Anatomy and Digital Sculpture / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Exercises - Fundamentals of Anatomy and Digital Sculpture INSTRUCTIONS MIB " You are to utilize your character design to create a stylized character block-out where you have to demonstrate anatomy studies applied in your digital sculpting. Characters can be human, any form of biped creatures or hybrid, or quadrupeds. Sculpture should capture as the listed components below: Proportion Character identity and believability Theme Readable silhouette Identical Landmarks Initiated Style  Muscle Flow " Character Design: Character concept Sculpting in ZBrush: Step 1: Create a skeleton-like base using simple...

Anatomy and Digital Sculpture Exerceises - Fundamentals of Anatomy and Digital Sculpture

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03/04/2023 - 12/05/2023 (Week 1 - 7) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Anatomy and Digital Sculpture / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Exercises - Fundamentals of Anatomy and Digital Sculpture INSTRUCTIONS MIB " In these exercises series you are to produce outputs (digital drawings and sculpting test) that demonstrates the understanding of anatomy. You will have to produce out as listed below: Skeletal studies (Human) Head Studies (Sketch and Sculpt) Muscle Studies (Sketch and Sculpt) Hands (Sketch and Sculpt) Feet (Sketch and Sculpt) Facial Expression (Sketch and Sculpt) Posture (Blockout) " 1. Skeletal Studies (Week 1 - 2) This skeletal study exercise enabled me to understand the structure of the human body, as the skeleton acts as the base for everything else to fall on ...

Design Exploration - Final Compilation

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04/04/2023 - 22/07/2023 (Week 1-16) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Design Exploration / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Final Compilation INSTRUCTIONS Week 1 - 4: Proposal and Idea Development For weeks 1-4, we are required to choose and SDG as the base of our project. Our project will be based on the element of 'playfulness'.  I started by doing some research on SDGs and settled on SDG 14 - Life Below Water.  The progress from this couple of weeks will be shown in the following slides: Week 5 - 14: Character texture and 3D sculpting After doing further research and looking for inspirations, I have decided to work on a new project concept. I originally opted to design a parallax website, but I've scrapped that idea and decided to work on a 3D character model instead. The main reason for this change was because I was doing some research on parallax websites (si...

Design Exploration - Reflective Blog (Entry 2)

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04/04/2023 (Week 1) WONG JUN ZHE / 0353613 Design Exploration / B' Creative Media / Taylor's University Reflective Blog (Entry 2) INSTRUCTIONS Weekly Lecture Work Task Well designed social awareness visual:  https://www.behance.net/gallery/120664401/This-Is-America-Social-Awareness-Campaign?tracking_source=search_projects_recommended%7Csocial+awareness Poorly designed social awareness visual: https://www.behance.net/gallery /157007091/Not-just-tired-for-Sleep-Disorder-Awareness?tracking_source=search_projects%7Csocial+awareness+character+design These 2 visuals I found online are centred within the character design theme.  The first artwork - 'This is America' is a series of social awareness visual design that uses photo manipulation to create powerful characters that spreads awareness on the topic of racial discrimination. I'd say the visuals/characters are well designed because of the design aesthetic, clarity, and the ability to influence viewers. Personally, I th...