In this post is the rendered images of the front and back of my model along with some screenshots of the wireframes of the model from Zbrush. I am really happy with how my character turned out for this project. I think she looks really good and really cute and I like the style I chose to create her in and think it works really well. A change I made was that I decided to not give my character the stripes on her shirt as I started to make them and thought it looked too overwhelming with the rest of the design so I left the shirt plain to make it fit in with the overall design better. This was a small design change but I think my overall model looks better like this and fits to my simplistic style I was aiming for more. I think the design overall went really well, zbrush was hard to navigate at first and I had to watch a lot of tutorials and videos to learn how to use it, but I got the hang of it and think I was able to create a model that looks really nice and in my opinion of a good standard especially for a beginner.
I enjoyed creating the model itself, despite all the tech issues I ended up having to figure out, but once it got to trying to colour the model I had a lot of issues. I had a lot of persistent technical issues with this project, partly due to having to use remote access and a bad Internet connection disconnecting me from my work, making me lose a lot of progress. There was a lot of issues with crashing, not being able to save and not being able to easily transfer between Maya and Zbrush. If I had to do this project again I think I would hope to do it in the university labs and not remotely. I have a MacBook Pro and this caused issues itself having to connect to a window’s pc as the keyboard is different and there was some commands I couldn’t do and things that did not work on the software. I also do not own a mouse so I had to do the project with the trackpad on my MacBook, which was difficult as again there were things I could not do as I don’t have a scroll wheel and don’t have a real right click button. This meant, especially in Maya, I couldn’t navigate around my model easily (if at all sometimes) and had to work carefully to make sure that I could carry on working.
Overall, I think this project worked out well and I was able to make a good model and a good turntable animation for being a beginner. I learnt a lot about zbrush and maya and was able to figure out how to create what I envisioned effectively. The part I enjoyed the most though was the 4 posts before I started modelling about creating the character and the research, as I thought this was really fun to do and creating a character was a really cool activity.