A LITTLE MORE PROFESSIONAL

Wit the scanning session not going to plan. I thought it about time I went back to my model and got a bit more professional with it. I mean the original photo I took are very rough and do not really show the detail I put into it. Also with it being my first time using sculpy I was a little over eager with the baking times. Therefore I wanted to paint the model with and all over base coat, so it would not only photograph better, but also so It help it look a little more professional. I have to say, painting the model with an over coat was a lot more work then I expected, what with all the nooks and crannies!

On these photos I felt like I needed to show the Tip Rat with some sort of weapon. So I opted for what I originally used to bridge the hand open, a scalpel. I think all in all the Tip rat and the scalpel match quite well. Though in hind sight, knowing the way the scanning went, I wish I had had another go at making the original gun free hand, but I guess that's what you learn from projects like this.

FARO scans

Since my last post I have attended two laser scanning sessions, held down at the university. I must say I held a lot of hope for these sessions and was rather excited to see what they could do, after all these sessions were the main reason I sculpted my Tip Rat model in sculpey. Unfortunately, neither sessions were really what I was hoping for. The first session was a bit of a waste as bad communication between teachers and Faro the company doing the scans, resulted in the wrong type of laser arm being brought down to uni. After the disappointment of the first session I was really looking forward to the second session being all that I had hoped. Sadly, this wasn't that much better than the first. Again, the set up and communication was a bit of a mess. The laser arm was set up on an old rickety table and this instability was causing the laser to blur its scans. Therefore my Tip Rat model was scanned, but not fully and not to the standard I was really hoping to achieve. I was really quite disappointed with the hole affair. I needed to have my model fully scanned and given back to me, so I could then hopefully build and model the missing weapon in Maya. I was really hoping to combine the two methods together and to gain from the experience. Instead all I learnt was what the potential of these laser arms are, informative, but not what I was lead to believe would take place!

(I still don't have any information as to when I will receive the scans that took place? I will upload them here when I get them, if I get them, that is.)

Keeping the style

Another character sheet of a basic Tip Rat known as a Barrel Rat for he use of this double barrelled shotgun.