Textured objects

Heres a couple of renders for the fishing pole and the bed- I got the textures from CGtextures.com, though made some colour adjustments and applied them to the UV maps. For the matress I applied a different texture (rather than the colour texture) to the bump layer to give it creases and folds

House texture test

texturing the house

After my brief texturing / UV mapping tutorial with Yaniv, and with Yaniv opting to weight the rest of his character himself, I've started texturing my unfinished house! I created a psd network using the uv texture editor, and so far have managed to get away with automatic mapping- Yaniv assures me I wont need to do anything more complex for cubic environmental objects. So far I have mapped the doors and one building section- I made the wall texture myself quite simply in photoshop, and re-applied the same texture to the bump attribute. The wood texture I found on cgtextures.com

Enjoying it so far, its a very welcome break from rigging!

weighting issues

Im having some issues with weighting this model- while the arms and head deform fine, everything else goes crazy! this image is of the leg after I weighted it- this shouldnt happen. Problem is that the other leg and the spine deform in a similar fashion, which still shouldnt happen despite not being weighted. Any clues as to what might be causing this?

rigging and modelling

Apologies for not having posted in a while- I finished rigging Jed, which was overall rather traumatic! haha very happy to have it done though, and it looks good! I will post up a demo once I have it sorted out along with a writeup of how it went and how it works. (Hopefully to make up for my recent lack of blogging.)

Since getting that finished I have returned to Red-Rock finally, and have been occupying myself with some modelling. I've modelled out the unfished building from the final shots (which I will blog up later once I have a few nicer renders).

Today though, I bashed out a rough bed and fishing pole, (above), and rigged the fishing pole.

Here is a quick and simple animated playblast to demonstrate:

So that works nicely.

I got Yaniv to go over UV mapping and texturing with me today, so I'm going to have a go at texturing these models myself as I direly need more material to fill out the art and animation sections of the unit!