Well first of all id like to thank chris and mike for opening the rooms two days after i should have gone home for christmas for me as these two days made a whole lot of difference in my rooftops project.
I have spent the past two weeks fretting over this project as yet again i was having unreal problems (the lighting wasnt building) and until monday this week i had woried that it would never be finished, ansd after weeks of helping me mark just happened to utter the phrase "have you moved computors" at which point i discovered that it was not my fault but the computor i had been on.
This has taught me a valuable lesson dont trust the computors at uni, and before you start deleting things move.

Panorama WTF

I have just sat and watched panorama 'addicted to games' and im sorry but im furious between parents being interviewed claiming they are afraid for their children's health and the patronising presenter there was little to redeem this clearly biased programme.
One teenager interviewed claimed that he had lost his university place because of games and another said that world of war craft was terrible and he wouldn't inflict it on anyone else (he said this while playing). And far from looking at the possibility that maybe it was their own fault that they were 'addicted' to these games panorama went to Blizzard games with the air of someone who was expecting an apology for these “poor young men”.

I would also like to point out that they lost their university places because they haven't heard of something called prioritising. I mean personally I would like nothing to be playing games right now but I cant because I have work to do and because my parents instilled me with backbone so the next time these parents are crying that their kids wont put their 360s away maybe they should take a look at themselves instead of laying the blame at everyone else's door.

rooftop project

Well this project has been one of the glitchiest projects ive had in a while. To complete it has been a constant battle against unreal. However after it all its been worth it.

Due to the fact that unreal doesnt work on my home computor ive had the opportunity to time manage due to the teaching styles of the third year.

Because we are now pretty much left to our own devices and we were given two projects to work on at the same time i could do unreal work at uni and either do the assets and tweeking of textures at home, and when the rooftop got boring and i needed a break i could then move onto the vehicle project which was helpful.

These are some in game shots of my rooftop project:

Its only 4 weeks into the third year and already im suffering from emotional distress. This was mainly caused be my own lack of beleif in myself. However thanks to my chat with chris and heather i am now back on track. This leaves me to re concentrate on the rooftops project, which considering how mundane the project is (with all the gray) im actually enjoying the challenge of creating a full level indipendantly as the only other level experience we have was in the group project and that was part of a team.

Im also enjoying all the new stuff im learning, mainly in unreal, and seeing a level ive created taking shape.

Well weve not been back for long and already the pressures on. The thoughts of getting a job getting better at not only 3d but drawing as well. The thought of having to plan a final project now feels weird and the thought that this project will be the main part of my portfolio, and the pressure to pick the right subject and something that wont bore me is something that is getting to me as everyone else seems pretty sure what subject theyre going to do, and where theyre going to be next year.



Well I have a few ideas for my final major project my first one would be a character/environment project based around a book, the book i would use is one ive enjoyed for years since i was about 14 i would use one of the books from the vampire diaries series but i would make sure i didnt use a part which was particularly gothic because as chris pointed out i dont want to be labeled.



My second idea would be an environment project. There is an area in ashby of an overly demolished house in the middle of a small forest



And my third idea is the house that chris found in the middle of a field, the only problem with this is i dont know where this house is. and even after extensive searches on google earth i still cant locate it.

so my FMP is between the first two ideas the book and the environment

over the summer

Well over the summer ive done quite alot of work it was nice working to my own projects but it did get quite boring after a while and i found myself sitting waiting for the holidays to end.

The work that i did ove rthe summer i tried to vary the range of objects i modelled and drawings i created as iv decided to extend over what i usually do.

here are some examples of the work i created

This was a flower from my mothers front garden i chose to draw it digitally because i felt that the vivid colours would only be fully apreciated in a digital image

I have uploaded more but blogger wont let me

gWell recently it actually dawned on me that iv' e continued drawing painting and modelling but I should also carry on writing the blogs.
However at the moment its probably clear nothing has been posted on facebook model wise this is because I'm apparently too close to my work, I'm actually afraid that the criticisms might upset me which is really weak but this is different to the set work I can put that up without fail but as soon as iv' e thought of something myself il just wait to hand it straight to heather and hope for the best, which is what I did for the last term I must have made at least seven 3d models yet put none of them on facebook, so if I make it into the third year which I hope I will ill try to work on my confidence and try to understand that not everyone will like my stuff or my styles but I should at least have the confidence to show my work without being afraid of the criticisms.

ps these blogs might be erratic in their uploading thats because the interent is a rare and expensive thing for me and il write the entries and store them up for when I get the internet.