BC1-1808 Homework, Aaron Rudderham

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Well not sure how much into turn based RPGs you are outside of Pokemon but Persona 5 is great. Great gameplay, story, music, characters, artstyle, oh and it’s like 100 hours long. Great investment.

Story wise there I definitely think that the Zero Escape games are the strongest, though they can mess with your head a bit. Do be warned though, there’s a *lot* of dialogue, but the gameplay is some good ol’ fashioned puzzles. Just for goodness sake play them in order, trust me, that is *very* important.

If you like Action RPGs then Diablo 3 is great, story is pretty weak overall but the combat is cathartic as hell. The Witcher 3 is probably the strongest all-rounder here, aside from Persona 5. Both fantastic RPGs.

Other good games for stories there would be Ace Attorney and Danganronpa. In Ace Attorney you’re essentially a lawyer from the world of anime so you spend half the game looking for clues and the other half going through people’s statements. Danganronpa is essentially that as well but on a multitude of drugs. If you can tolerate/like anime I find myself recommending DGR more just because of how absurd it can be.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is possibly one of the most accessible turn based RPGs I’ve ever played. It’s a little easy yeah but if you don’t play that kinda stuff much but want to give it a try this is a great start. Though naturally being a South Park game it hinges on how much you like the TV show and more importantly, its sense of humour.

As much as I want to recommend XCOM 2 it is HARD. I don’t just mean “steep learning curve” hard, I mean “play for 20 hours but have to restart because you backed yourself into a corner” hard. That being said if you’re willing to give it a shot and endure some of the BS thrown your way you can play one of the best Turn Based Strategy games of the past few years.

Not sure how you feel about character action games (games like Devil May Cry where you pull off combos ‘n stuff) but NieR Automata’s story is excellent, to the point where I’d recommend it even if you’re not a fan of those kind of games. Just… it takes a while to get to the good stuff.

Last but certainly not least is Yakuza 0. Yeah it may have a slow start and yeeeeah there may be no English dub and yeeeeeeeeah it doesn’t really fall under anything you like except for good story (and RPG elements I suppose) but damnit it’s one of my favorite games ever so I’ll never stop shilling it. If you have an itch for an ostentatious, story focused 3D brawler set in an (small) open-world Japan with a plethora of bonkers side activities then look no further!

Oh and just in case you still have your Wii I recommend the No More Heroes games, there’s nothing else quite like them anywhere else…

[Aaron Rudderham]

@theluthier Cheers for the feedback! Adjustments have been made, I hope they’re enough.

Trust me, hearing that was a God send. I was concerned I’d have to spend out on like a £500 class just to figure this stuff out but glad to know I can learn it the old fashioned way.

Thanks again for the reassurance there. Like I said, this whole CG thing was basically my plan A, B and C, ’cause I haven’t the faintest clue what else I’d do, so I think my best bet is to just charge full steam ahead and make something happen, or become really disappointed trying lol.

EDIT: Actually looking at my old render and this one there doesn’t seem to be much difference around the legs, I just kinda shifted the weight up a bit. Well, guess I’ll be adjusting that!

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective I took a look at the mouth and I think your friend has a point, kinda looks like he’s opened it too much and there is so much tension it might snap of, if you know what I mean? So perhaps moving the lower jab up, making the gap smaller, will improve the look significantly. That’s the feeling I have about it 😊

If I were you (and I’m not so feel free to ignore me completely 😉) I would focus on the details this last day as you said you might do. Retopo and fur takes a long time I think, and since your not done with making him the way you want him to look in the end maybe not the best way to spend your time. Else you have to retopo him later after class again because you were not done sculpting…

Veryyyy curious to see if my guess was right so I’ll be on the lookout in the gallery to see when it pops up 😎

You’re doing great Aaron! Keep up the good work 😄👍🏻

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective Thanks for the suggestions!! I’ve copied them all and some time after class I will go onto YouTube, find some trailers and gameplay videos, see what speaks to me most 😬 I think there’s some good stuff in there!

Also want to mention I’ve thrown that horrible WII in the thrash and hope never to see it again. Sweeping controller, yuk 😑

EDIT: already watched videos of your top tier games because I was curious, Persona 5 is a game after my heart!! Though the setting is totally different, the feeling I got was the same as with the ‘tales of’ series.. and that one is awesome!! Can’t wait to get my hands on that one. Top of my birthday wish list 😬😬

[Aaron Rudderham]

Homework Submission Week 3

Well, gonna have to call it a week here. Really hoped I coulda done more but this was a week I was meant to be taking easy (aka playing XCOM 2) so I’ll be going back to this sometime after class. Seeing as I was advised by @smurfmier1985 to not pursue the retopo and fur due to the time it would take I instead focused my time on adding a few details, touching up proportions and putting the bear into a pose, which without rigging is… annoying.

Here’s a close up of his mug. I feel like I coulda put more detail into the gum but I think for now it looks decent.

I decided to not really adjust the primitives exercise. It’s not perfect by any means (cube could be more sharp, same with the cone though I quite like it with the curved tip personally) but I think it’s good enough.

I tried uploading the Melvin sculpt to Sketchfab but it’s not working for me for some reason so I’ll upload it tomorrow. For reference though here’s the original exercise I did which was 4 months ago apparently, jeez. Time flies. Naturally I wouldn’t want that counted for my homework though so the redone version should be here by midnight Monday, I’ll update this post.

I don’t have a turntable for you today I’m afraid, but I was messing around with the rotate tool and found this oddly hilarious so maybe you’ll get a chuckle out of it too.

With that being done I hope you’ve all learnt quite a bit this week, sorry again for being rather inactive and not being too helpful but I’m hoping to pick up the slack in the upcoming week. Have a good one! 

EDIT: Melvin 2.0 is done! The Sketchfab link goes here but just for old times sake here’s a rendered version!

You can probably tell I like experimenting with lighting…

In an attempt to one-up my original, not only did I go off reference only and not watch the tutorial, I managed to get this done in a couple of hours as opposed to the entire day the original did (there’s a link up above to my original one) whilst also adding extra details. Sometimes when learning skills you feel like you’re never getting anywhere but simply looking back can do wonders for morale. Don’t get me wrong it’s far from perfect, but I truly believe I’ve made strides.

With that being said I wish you all a goodnight and to have a good one, come tomorrow I’ll have absolutely no Blender work whatsoever (unless I decide to touch up on the primitives) so I’ll spend my time catching up on the individual threads and see what I’ve missed and possibly helping a couple of you out. See ya! 

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Trust me I was keeping track of that game since it got announced in 2013, when I finally got my hands on it 4 years later hoo boy that was a fortnight well spent.

I’d also recommend World of Final Fantasy. It’s cutsey, has a Kingdom Hearts-esque aesthetic to it and has a weird “stacking” system where you capture creatures ala Pokemon and then stack them on top of each others heads. Yeah, like I said, odd. Fun though!

[Pavel Mazanik]

@thecabbagedetective dat lights make him looks like he’s telling scary stories behind the bonfire 😀 Looking good!

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective hehehe yeah that makes me chuckle 😂

That lighting on the bear is brilliant!! I think the end results is really really good Aaron, love it 😄😍

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective strangely enough that sounds like a lot of fun in a very weird way, will check some videos of that as well 😬

[Aaron Rudderham]

@nekronavt Awesome, that was the vibe I was going for, glad it paid off!

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Glad to hear you liked the lighting as well, cheers to you both!

[Aaron Rudderham]

Just letting everyone know that week 3’s homework had been updated and is unlikely to change.

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective That Melvin is wickedly cool!! 😀😬

[silentheart00]

@thecabbagedetective Good Melvin!  The lighting on sketchfab defaults to something really bright, so it’s blowing out the details a little bit.  Fun personality, good details.  Sure wish there were details on the back, but hey, you did what you could.  Good work.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Glad to hear you like it, cheers!

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