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Alexandria Nalepa

This blog follows the process of my Senior Project for my undergrad in Simulation, Animation, and Gaming at Eastern Michigan University. I will be modeling a fantastical hot air balloon with two characters riding on it, and showing the character modeling process through video tutorials. I hope to entertain and educate through my art, and I'm excited to put my passions and hard work out into the world!

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Making the Scene Realistic

Alex Nalepa
Feb 12, 2019
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This week I worked on the textures of the scene and the concepts for the character’s color scheme. I also reworked the topology of the character to allow for a better rig, then reimported and posed the character. I shot several test renders, repositioned the lights, and adjusted the camera. I also retextured the gear engine, which required some troubleshooting to get the texture to show up. The problem ended up being that I attached the IOR map into the wrong node. That has now been fixed for all of the textures, and everything looks much cleaner and brighter now.