Class:
PIE 1 Art- Concept Art

Assignment:
Create 12 value range studies with your winning item/prop from the previous assignment. You may tweak your design if you’d like.

Votes of 18 students from previous assignment (design – number of votes):
Design 01 – 1
Design 02 – 3 (I voted for this one)
Design 03 – 1
Design 04 – 0
Design 05 – 7
Design 06 – 1
Design 07 – 1
Design 08 – 1
Design 09 – 0
Design 10 – 1
Design 11 – 2
Design 12 – 0

Description:
Design 05 won. I based it off of the design on Ganondorf’s cloak in Wind Waker. I kept the colors of his cloak in mind when I was making these value studies. That’s why a lot of them have a really dark value and a really light value (the original design is gold/orange on black). All of these designs were in Illustrator, and the final page was arranged in Photoshop.

Finally, we printed these out (the last image below) and hung them up. Then we picked our one favorite redesign from each person’s work. The votes were tallied up, and whichever redesign got the most votes was the one we were to work on in the next assignment (in the case of a tie, the artist chose which one he/she wanted to work on). Which one do you like the best? 🙂

Class:
PIE 1 Art- Animation

Assignment:
Animate two walk cycles in PAP. The first animation should be of a flour sack. The second animation can be whatever you want as long as it’s another walk cycle.

(Unofficial) Assignment:
Kill the flour sack >:3

Description:
This is the first of two animations for this assignment. It’s a little derpy flour sack walking. At the end, it gets hit by the ball from my previous assignment (though it’s the ball from the animation that I accidentally overwrote >_>).

Class:
PIE 1 Art – Animation

Assignment:
Animate two walk cycles in PAP. The first animation should be of a flour sack. The second animation can be whatever you want as long as it’s another walk cycle.

Description:
My second animation for this assignment. IT’S KIRBY! …WALKING!…

Class:
PIE 1 Art- Modeling

Assignment:
Use Maya to complete UVs on the redesigned Metroid missile model from the previous assignment. Do not worry about the texture yet, just use solid colors (use Photoshop for this).

Description:
Once I made the UVs look right in Maya, I took them into Photoshop and blocked out colors with solid color masks. That way, I could easily change the base colors if I needed. This was helpful for the next assignment.

Tris: 2,954

Class:
PIE 1 Art- Concept Art

Assignment:
Choose three of the weapons/props from those provided and redesign them using only silhouette to describe your design. You can mix items from Zelda, Metroid, and Mario, or you can choose to do items all from the same game. On your final presentation, you should have three different items/props, each with four different redesgins. Make sure your deigns are easy to read.

Description:
I knew immediately that I wanted to redesign the Hylian Shield (Zelda). Soon after, I decided to try out Mario’s hat (Mario :P) and the Speed Booster (Metroid). I ended up coming up with a lot of designs pretty quickly, so I stuck with them. For whatever reason, I had the most trouble coming up with redesigns for Mario’s hat, but I got them eventually :P.

I started the designs in Photoshop, then I took the ones that I liked and vector traced them in Illustrator so they’d be cleaner, and so I could resize them without distortion (♥ vector). The final page was arranged in Photoshop.

Finally, we printed these out (the last image below) and hung them up. Then we picked our one favorite redesign from each person’s work. The votes were tallied up, and whichever redesign got the most votes was the one we were to work on in the next assignment (in the case of a tie, the artist chose which one he/she wanted to work on). Which one do you like the best? 🙂

Class:
PIE 1 Art- Animation

Assignment:
Create two animations of bouncing balls in PAP (Plastic Animation Paper). The first should simply be a ball bouncing across the screen losing height and momentum with each bounce. The second animation should be a “gag” animation.

Description:
One of two animations for our first assignment in PIE 1 Art – Animation. The assignment was simple: animate a bouncing ball. We were to animate in PAP (Plastic Animation Paper).

This is the second animation I did (the first was just a ball bouncing on a floor), but I apparently saved over the first one with this one 🙁