{"id":95,"date":"2018-10-16T16:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2019-06-10T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:44:33","slug":"explorations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/explorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Explorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is our year end project, allowing us to explore whatever intrigues us and develop on that skill. I&#8217;ve always loved video games and the process in developing one. My dream job after art school has always been visual development. So, for my explorations project I challenged myself to create a concept and final design for a character, and to translate it into a 3D model in ZBrush.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>PROCESS: <\/strong>Silhouettes<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sil-1024x720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sil-1024x720.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sil-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sil-768x540.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sil.png 1870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first drew up these silhouettes to rough out the general shapes I want for the design. I wanted a character who was steadfast and cool-headed, yet dangerous, so I combined the triangular shapes of silhouette 4 and 6, with the sturdy body of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>PROCESS:<\/strong> Concept Iterations<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conceptss-1024x775.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conceptss-1024x775.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conceptss-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conceptss-768x581.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/concept-2-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/concept-2-1024x671.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/concept-2-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/concept-2-768x503.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here I explored the actual design, and settled on the middle design to the bottom. A sort of lion\/chimera knight.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>PROCESS: <\/strong>ZBrush<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/zbrushscr1-1024x557.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/zbrushscr1-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/zbrushscr1-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/zbrushscr1-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/zbrushscr1.png 2017w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This part was particularly challenging, learning a new program in the span of 2 weeks was hard, but gratifying. I will add more screenshots in the future.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>FINAL PRODUCTION:<\/strong> WIP!<\/h2>\n<p>tbd.<\/p>\n<h2><b>INFOGRAPHIC<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>We created an infographic to inform others of what we have learned in the process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CatC-Infographic-458x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CatC-Infographic-458x1024.jpg 458w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CatC-Infographic-134x300.jpg 134w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CatC-Infographic-768x1718.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The explorations project was definitely my favorite project of my junior year at Freestyle, it allowed me to explore a program I was always very curious about. I&#8217;ve seen more than a dozen ZBrush speed-sculpts, and it&#8217;s nice to finally have some knowledge of how to do it myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION This is our year end project, allowing us to explore whatever intrigues us and develop on that skill. I&#8217;ve always loved video games and the process in developing one. My dream job after art school has always been visual development. So, for my explorations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/explorations\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explorations<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~CatC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}