Week 9

This week I made some new models to complete the exercise.  I spent a while modeling Kirby, a Nintendo character, and his star from the games.  I started with a circle and then extruded many parts to make arms and cheeks.  I didn't extrude Kirby's feet though as I modeled and textured the feet separately and then combined them to the Kirby model.  I spent time making parts of Kirby different colors so he would look close to what he normally looks like.  For example for his mouth I made the texture more red so it stood out from the rest of him.  The star took some time to model as well.  I started with a circle and extruded areas to make a star.  I made it yellow like in the games.  I also added a ground which I was originally going to make green like grass but I decided to make it blue so it looked like Kirby was flying through the sky.  I then added many spot lights all pointing at Kirby from different directions.  Most of the lights I made a shade of blue except for the light directly above Kirby which I made more pink to match the color of Kirby.  I also added a volume light right above the star to give the star more lighting.  I made that light more yellow to match the star.  I also watched the "Living Paper" animation by Julius Burton.  I though it was very impressive how they were able to incorporate 3d animation into the real world.  It was basically seamless.  A lot of work goes into animation and they also had to account for the animation being in a real world setting.  I thought it worked very well.