Conclusion

To conclude - I'm actually really pleased with my product and it was a lot of fun to do. I did run into a few problems but nothing major and nothing that stopped me from completing the project. The things I really enjoyed in this project were: the new feature panel loops, it's probably the most powerful tool I've personally used within ZBrush and I'm so happy I used it even though I made a mistake with it regarding the pose and composing the renders within Photoshop, I've used Photoshop for quite a number of years so I feel at home whenever I use it and enjoy it quite thoroughly. The parts I didn't enjoy, well, actually there's nothing. A couple of things really did frustrate me like my problems I encountered when trying to pose but it was actually quite enjoyable trying to figure out how to fix the problems and move on with my work. Even when I completely changed my character it was actually quite exciting trying something different and because this is something I enjoy, work didn't feel like work and it all went very fast.

If I had another chance I'd definitely amend my biggest mistake during this project and pose as early on as I possibly could, preferably right after I had finished the major symmetrical work so that I could make asymmetrical poses and really make it interesting. Also in regards to the final image I feel I could have put a lot more effort into the background and given it some character and life. Although I felt with the pose I had to work with the background wouldn't help it much, besides I feel the stars really correlate well with the blue shiny armour I had given my character. I might also move off from humans - every character or face or bust I've done in ZBrush have all been human, I feel like I'm ready to move on from that and experiment with some alien type characters or just variations of the basic humanoid anatomy. 

All in all, this project has by far been the most fun for me to complete in the entire two years I've had at college - obviously because we got to choose exactly what we wanted to do, and since being introduced to ZBrush, I knew that I would have to use this program during this project. I'm pleased with my decisions and surprisingly happy with the result of the final image.


In regards to my schedule I'm actually a slight bit ahead of it, so even though you could say I wasted a little over two weeks, because of how much I enjoyed this work I got everything done in a small time scale and on time. This being this sixth week I've had nothing to do besides add images to this blog and publish all the pages!

I also completed everything stated on my project brief -