Nathan Dobson: Games art 2024-25

 Spear Model - Bident I chose a type of spear as an allusion to Vlad Tepes III the Impaler, the man commonly attributed to the myth of Dracula, as my character is a Vampire. I specifically chose a bident just because it's cool. Wireframe of the upper portion of the haft Bottom end of the haft First bident design using two separate meshes I constructed it in half and then used the mirror operation to connect them. Second bident inspired in some way by bat wings After I had the initial bident down I duplicated the mesh and rotated it 90 degrees to fill empty space and add another layer of detail. This the iteration of the second design again the duplication, rotation and scaling. This is the design that I am going with, in my opinion the design lends itself to the 1, intimidation factor and 2, the aggressive design of the character wielding it. I do plan to add things to it in ZBrush if I need to.

 Building Alliances: Reflection To preface this post, I believe that my teams project was a success we; completed our tasks, gave each other meaningful feedback and collaborated on a consistent basis.  I believe I did not fully embrace my role as an environment artist partially because Holly as our 3d artist would handle the majority of the 3D workload however this in turn made me shy away from pursuing a route in the 3D side of environment art which could've opened up even more pathways for me. Another thing I should've done was to be more assertive and hand out more "assignments" I was quite passive during team meetings, as the environment lead I should have asked for more from my teammates, not to say they didn't produce quality work or enough, I wanted them to explore more aspects but this combined with their own work lead to how I currently view this project and my role within it, perhaps if we set specific slots throughout the project timeline to focus on a ...

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 Combined Research Dossier   Environmental Case Study   I.D.I.O.T. Studios   Game Art: Building Alliances 2024/25                           Contents   List of Figures ......................................................................................... . .... pg. 3   Flooding and Microplastics by Evie Joyce ...................................... ........... .. pg. 5   Microplastics in the Urban Environment by Nath an Dobso n.. ..................... . pg. 4   Fungi’s Use in Degrading plastics by Holly Davis ............. .................. ..... .... pg. 7   Microplastics in Caves and their Impact on Erosion by Holly Davis ...... ...... .. pg. 8   What are Landfills and how they affect the environment by Damien Street pg. 9   By Sasha Bowman (extension) .............. ............................ ........................... pg.   Bibliography .....