Milestone 5 (Naomi)

Overview

This week I made an account on Mixamo and, as a group, went on the website together to get familiar with it and pick out some potential animations for our protagonist, Luna. 

Other than that we mainly worked on our individual tasks. I continued to focus on modelling Luna, still in the quad draw phase. I was able to finish re-meshing the face, with only the back of the head left. This will take significantly less time since the back of the head does not need to be as defined as the front, and will likely end up being deleted after I use it to make the helmet. Next sprint I aim to get most of, if not all of Luna's model done, starting with finishing the back of the head in quad draw. Below are some progress images:

 

This is what our trello board looks like after this sprint. Although progress was made, most things are in the same place due to getting into the more time-consuming parts of the project: 

Challenges

I mainly struggled with the quad draw tool being glitchy. For some reason the dots made at the center were not actually in the center, despite the user feedback showing that they were. This lead to issues when I wanted to move vertices or smooth the surface, so I constantly had to exit out of quad draw and merge the vertices before I could go further. This made the task take longer than it would have if this was not happening. 

Successes 

Despite the quad draw tool being glitchy, it is a success that I got the face re-meshed this week. Retopologizing is one of the most time-consuming parts of modeling a character, but now the hardest part of it is finished, with only the back of the head left which should not take long at all. I'd say that I am in a good place to get most, if not all of the modelling finished by the end of the next sprint.

Hours Spent

In total we spent around 5.5 hours on this sprint. We spent around 30 minutes on Mixamo, I spent about 2 hours modelling, Zineb spent around 2 hours on our puzzle game mechanic, and Sumaiya spent approximately 1 hour working on the enemy character references.