Week 16; A Character Continuation

  So after a weeks reading I'm ready to continue on with the next project warm-up for the looming character project. This week we were tasked with modelling a low-poly head, as a learning experiment for out character project. I didn't have too much hassle with this and was rather simple to follow along with.

  For games production we used a technique called box modelling where essentially, like a classical sculptor you carve the head out of a block, using the cut tool and swift loop tool craft out the head.

On Monday was the preparation for this exercise as we were tasked for Monday to take photos of our face ready to draw face loops and facial topology over them so we could model out the head using those images as reference.

  For the latter part of the week we were given a critical studies talk about cleaning our footprint on the internet and roles we would have in a company or group. We started with a sort of personality test which then determined which of these Nine roles we'd fall into:

Plant
Resource Investigator
Co-ordinator
Shaper
Monitor Evaluator
Teamworker
Implementer
Complete Finisher
Specialist
 

  After taking the test I fell into the category of “Teamworker” which is surprisingly accurate for one of my attributes. This role entails “Co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic. Listens and averts friction”. However the “Allowable Weaknesses” include “Indecisive in crunch situations. Avoids Confrontation” Which I wouldn't say is totally accurate. Some good food for thought though, It'd be nice to be more rounded an individual rather than sitting in one category. The other part of the lecture was finding ourselves in search engines and how we can eradicate any unwanted data of ourselves found easily on the internet, which I didn't find too bad as there isn't many things that I could find about myself, except my Batting average in 2012, which is probably the only embarrassing I could find!

  Other than that I ventured into town to buy my own copy of “The Hobbit” as my other copy is back at home, since I had finished “The Rachel Papers” and my Power Supply had not yet arrived. The reason for doing this was the third film in The Hobbit series was released recently which was getting poor reviews and it'd been a while since I'd read the book. But that's about it for this week, I'll join you next week!