BA3a Week 1 Review

Mood Board


I started this week by researching slime moulds and creating a mood/research board showing the types of mould I would like to recreate with maya, zbrush and substance designer.




From this mood board I tried to create some concept/ideation pieces but I really wasn't having much luck, being that I am extremely out of practice as a 2D artist. Though the piece with the yellow-blue gradient did definitely help me to visualise a final outcome slightly more clearly.

Insect Egg Slime Mould in Maya
Mould in Zbrush
Mould in Substance Painter
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1717656004

I started modelling my first mould, based on the 'Insect Egg Slime Mould' or 'Leocarpus Fragilis'. These moulds grow in clusters, as such they also will in my environment. After my first texture pass many of my peers jeered that my mould looked like a chicken drumstick.
Getting back into Zbrush was quite difficult, due to not using the software for such a long time I had difficulty finding anything I needed to, luckily as I am doing organic modelling I was able to just use some of the noise and clay brushes, which worked quite well to achieve the desired effect.

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