Frank time.

Now that the last ever project is officially upon us, I am working on Frank. Today I planned to spend all day working on him and hopefully getting a nice starting point finished, however I had my usual luck with hard drives and I had a problem with mine today. I had to do all sorts of things including a scan of my hard drive for bad sectors which took 4 hours!!
so now that I have fixed it and the ordeal is over, I have finally started on Frank's body.

I am using these blueprints to make the body and using reference for the detail.

I had already started on Frank's head and this is what I have so far with a rough normal map applied

So now I'm going to catch up with some work.

Catch you all later c

think I'm done

Ok so after all of the events, I think I am finally done.
Here are tthe images that I will be handing in.

Can you let me know what you think please

cx

sleepy

Now that I think I have solved my max memory issue I managed to get some work done.

I spent about 7 hours of today trying to deal with errors and I was getting very irate about it but now that some work has actually been done, I am feeling a bit better.

Here is what I have got so far.

tomorrow I plan on adding the finishing touches to the textures and maybe doing some specular maps aswell.

gnite everyone

is that hope I see?

I may have found a fix! (how long it lasts is another question though)

I ended up snooping around all of the max help files and came across one about bitmap proxy files so I followed the instructions and after two attempts it seems to have worked. hope it holds out.

Here is what I have so far.

Almost there now, I just hope that I can get it done in time for the hand in.
cx

3ds max

I currently hae 3ds Max.
I am struggling to get anything done because I keep hacing to close and reopen 3ds max because i keep getting memory issues, and now Max has taken to crashing but this time it crashed, and corrupted my save. No I have to work with a save from 2 days ago because, instead of incremental saves, it was saving over my current file.

I am not very happy at the moment, but the hand in is monday, so I have to just try my best to carry on.

If anyone knows any ways to fix Memory issues please let me know
x

update

Well hand in is almost upon us, and Here is what I have so far.

 

I have to work this weekend, but when I'm not working I will be finishing this off.
Let me know what you think c

GRR MAX!

I'm fairly angry right now because I was working and max decided that it doesnt have enough memory for me. I keep gettin stupid errors like this one :

MSG  0.3  error  011105: cannot start thread 12: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

This happens whenever I render or open the material editor.
Last time this happened was during the texturing module last year and that was ALOT of stress.
I remember that to help solve the problem I saved everything individually and then Xref'ed them into the scene so I tried that, and I'm still getting stupid results.

anyone know what to do?

btw Im up to here so far

mudboxing

today I have been working on the mubdox scene. I have done the trasure chest and the candle holder.

let me know what you think
c

good news, at last.

OK so after realising just how much work I had to do, I managed to crack on yesterday un-interupted (after being in work of course :P) and I managed to get chapter 2 of my dissertation done.
I have e-mailed it off to Kate and am waiting for feedback so that I can alter it as required.
Today hopefully I will get a good portion of chapter 3 done, after I have decided what the chapter will be on, and I also plan on doing some work on Dean's scene and some work on my Kabukicho scene.

Hopefully my posts will be relatively positive from now on.

cx

thats not good.

Hi all, I hope you had a nice Christmas and new year.

Unfortunately I have been working all over Christmas and I haven't had much time off so I've not been able to do much.
I double checked today and realised that I have a week less then I thought I had to finish chapter two of my dissertation, so that's not good, because its due on the 20th, so I have 13 days to do it.

Plus, I can't remember when this scene is supposed to be done by. I think its the 27th but I am just working as hard as I can at the moment to keep at it and get it done as soon as possible. If it is due on the 27th then the dissertation will take centre stage, and then I can focus on the scene.

I was working on the treasure chest today and here is what I have so far.

 I tried to add some coins and jewels into the chest but it just didn't look right so I took the jewels out and kept the coins. Now I am happier with the results.

 This is what I have now.

 And this is how the scene looks at this point.

I have made up a to do list for this scene and there is quite a bit but I did manage to cross three things off it today so I think that is a good result.

Let me know what people think please?

Thanks guys, Chris x