Spring break
Spring 2011, Month of March
I decided to stay in Vermont for spring break instead of going back home to see if I could churn out a good portfolio piece. Not the best way I wanted to spend spring break, but I got something of value out of it.
It was fun project, although it did get agitating. Some of the geometry on the gun is more complex that one would think. It was nice actually owning the gun though, seeing as how I could inspect it with my own eyes when my reference pictures failed me.
This was also a project where I edited a lot of info in the normal map. There were lots of small details in the gun that wouldn’t make sense doing in Maya, so I’d copy and paste certain areas of the normal map and edit them in other sections.
I wanted to see if I could create the gun in a week, but I really only got the high poly and low poly done during that milestone. Whenever I had free time, I’d work on unwrapping, baking, and texturing it to a presentable state. I also time tracked it so I could get a better understanding of how long it takes to model something like that. Hopefully this will allow me to give better time estimates to future employers.
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