Week 9

 

Experimentation

    All this week I have been Playing with different methods of lighting the alley. I have been mostly adding Neon Signs and a few lanterns to get a specific feel in the ally before I go overboard on any detailing. While neon signs aren't difficult to make they did take fairly long because in order to see how it would look I had to wait on some rendering; therefor while I waited for my renders I started setting up Computers for when I inevitably need a render farm. Though I did need a reminder on how to make neon signs and wanted to make the signs in another language, mostly so I didn't have to make clever names for the stores, so the first signs were a tad tricky.

    I have also started to consider adding neon signs that aren't just words but are pictures. though this would take much more work to create so it may have to wait till all the other settings are done just to make sure there is time for such endeavors, but if I were to go down this path I would learn how to do so via the following video

Weekly Report:

Monday: Relearned neon lights and made purple sign

Tuesday: Started lanterns and learned how to use wireframe modifier

Wednesday: Finished lanterns and started setting up computers for render farm

Thursday: Made blue sign and ran a few lo quality renders while setting up computers

Friday: Made red sign and ran a few lo quality renders while setting up computers