IMD3901 Term Project - Noah Balkovec

Introduction Welcome to the fourth blog post for the IMD3901 Term Project! This post will cover my group's progress in the proposal and alpha presentation, as well as my first progress with modelling. Challenges Our main challenge was the presentation slides, which we revised multiple times prior to presenting. we needed to make sure everybody was on the same page, and made sure we knew who was presenting what, as well as that our presentation was engaging. Another challenge that came my way over the last couple of weeks was modelling. It had been a while since I had modelled, so it took a few reminders and refreshers on different tools, but once I refamiliarized myself with them, I got to work. Lastly, it was tough balancing my work on this with the various other assignments I had/have to work on. It's a busy time of the year, and I still managed to set aside a good chunk of time for work on this project. Successes Despite the various challenges, there were still lots of succe...

Introduction Welcome to the second blog post for the IMD3901 Term Project! This post will cover my group's first in-class meeting to discuss our progress, our dividing of the roles, and other project choices we made throughout the week. Challenges Our group's main challenge was dciding the time period and style of art to work on in our project. After talking about the feasibility of various options during our in-class. We went through many options, including a different era and style in each room we made, to one era but different styles, to one style but different eras, and it looks a lot of research to end up with something we feel would come together nicely while also having some connection to ArtEngine and Ottawa/Canada in general. Our final idea was to focus on the work of Cornelius Krieghoff, who documented the life of the first British and French settlers in Canada. He has many different scenes of different environments, so our plan is to made 3-5 environments that the us...