Learning the basics of zbrush It was from tutorials provided by the university as well as ones on youtube that I started off learning Zbrush at first I was just getting started with the basic sculpting Brushes such as Clay buildup, Move, and crease to create random looking creatures to mostly get used to using…
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A character type brief in the style of a military document there have been parts that were redacted these parts do have actually words in them however for the sake of the brief they have been redacted but I will share a declassified version as well just to show i put more thought into it.…
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The last of Tufte’s principles is Micro/Macro readings which is the most fundamental but also the easiest to understand and to quickly paraphrase Tufte micro/macro design blurs together into one big Idea but on closer inspection resolve into smaller ideas that on their own can stand together (Tufte, 1990, P.43) take this image of the…
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The fourth principle of Tufte’s Envisioning information is Layering and Separation and for forests, everything blurs together and intertwines as “Forests are complex adaptive systems in which properties at higher levels emerge from localized networks of many entities interacting at lower levels, allowing the development of multiple ecological pathways and processes” (Ecology & Society, 2020). A…
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The next excerpt is all about telling a story onto flatland and detailing time which can be done in many ways “Painting four-variable narrations of space-time onto flatland” (Tufte, 1990, P.97). Life cycles are a great way to show “a smooth escape from flatland” (Tufte, 1990, p.110). They detail all the information in one image from…
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Comparisons of small multiples is the next entry in Tufte’s Envisioning Information and it is all about how we can see things all at once “Small Multiples reveal, all at once, a scope of alternatives, a range of options” (Tufte, 1990, p.68). Small multiples are usually used to “display many variables with less risk of…
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This new project will be focusing on Tufte’s 5 principles from Envisioning Information In a specific subject area and I have chosen to do Environmental Animation mainly focusing on forests and how they affect the environment as our main producers of air. Color is used to convey many things other than just looking good “Human…
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Basic Z-Brush Learning While learning the basics of When I was asked to learn how to use Z-spheres and create an animal with them I decided to create the Reaper Leviathan from Subnautica since I thought it would be a simple structure to create and i think it turned out quite well from a short…
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