Artist statement

Tina Yang’s artist statement :D

When I first started 3D modeling it was purely out of curiosity about watching anime. I watch shows where the characters would move like performers on a stage. Naturally, that means it would be hard to animate each frame by hand. So when I watched these shows and I really wanted to get into an artistic aspect of my life I found 3D modeling. I started off with MMD making my characters and models out of parts I found on the internet. It was a tedious amount of work, yet I worked into the late summer nights of my middle school career and found it amusing and fun. I became familiar with UV mapping and bones. The more I played around with the program I found a passion for making characters rather than animating. Making the character and dressing them up was a glorified version of dress-up games I played when I was younger.  So naturally when I entered high school I wanted to pursue this fun new hobby of mine I found. While working over the last 4 years I had a lot of projects that I was satisfied with especially in my early stages. But I was just so antsy and wanted to make a full poly character. After making my full poly character I realized that it was way harder than anything I’ve ever done before. In my defense I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to making something of mine. I do get upset about the little things that go wrong. Blender as a program is amazing, it’s free with a range of tools and tricks to help you out. But working with it can be unbearable sometimes. I realized that I would like to have this skill on the side as a hobby more than anything else. I would still like the 3D model just not as a big school project or a job, I am more of a hobbyist if anything, and this is one hobby I genuinely enjoy.

Other DAF things

 

GIF

Photo resizing

                               Introduction

Photocroping. I had to learn how to use photoshop this week in class. Although I am unfamiliar with this program I think I had a bit of success remembering the steps that were taught in class to resizing my photos. 

Inspiration

There was little to no inspiration other than the constant pressure of the art festival. Joking! But overall this was something I had to do and personally something I really want to try and do. 

Brainstorming

I had to figure out by Friday which photos I wanted to do, I really did not want to use the donut photo, mostly due to the fact that it was something everyone else has done in our 3D Modeling class. So I wondered if I could use another one. Due to the school getting rid of all of our Youtube videos most of my projects from the last year have disappeared and to be never seen again so I have little to no choice, but to use the Donut scene. I personally really like the scene. I guess I wanted to be a bit more different and NOT seem like I didn't do anything with my last 2 years. I also did not want to use a progression shot mostly since I wanted more than one final product shot. 

Experimental

When editing my photos I remembered most of the steps that were told to me. I forgot to switch to the preserve details section of the modes so I had a hard time wondering why my photos were so blurry. I also kept unconsciously making my photo 20pxs by 14pxs instead of inches, which took me an embarrassingly amount of time to figure out. 

Process

I am missing one more photo, but that is on my school laptop.

Reflection

Overall, it was a success nonetheless! I learned how to crop photos and resize them while keeping the same quality I was given. I am very excited to see them printed. I plan on cutting away the white borders so I can get my full screen on my cardboard!

Work Log:

Monday: Connected Neck    

Tuesday: texturing

Wednesday: Waiting for Photoshop to download

Thursday: Demo Day

Friday: Not in class

Texture Research

           Introduction

As I am about to begin my journey of texturing my model and rigging it. I started to look back on my MMD days and understand how exactly to do UV textures. Now I would not say I am a newbie when it comes to UV Textures, I understand its concept to a tee. And when I did do MMD I would remember recoloring textures or looking at them often to understand how to make the dress I want different color without messing up what shows up on my model

Inspiration

My inspiration 100% has to be MMD, although I might not want this exact style of textures, it is one I am very much so familiar with and honestly editing textures and reworking them to my liking was always a fun part of my night. Thanks to this I had an idea of what I wanted to do and how I can properly execute it with the tutorial videos I watched. 

Brainstorming

So I want to use other textures to make my texture. I want to use other people's s textures and tweak them to what I desire and hope for what my character will be like. This is something I am very much so familiar with and I will be mostly using license-free textures and other community-given textures for my character. Anything I can not find I will make personally make it myself.

Experimental

I collected photos of parts :D and downloaded the zip files for each items I need.

Process

Cytryna CAmmd

HiLoMMD

UtauRueCross

    

Reflection

I am unsure if I can pull this off, but I am very much so confident in my abilities to do so right now, My plan is to make the base a singular color and then shade in whatever I need to for skin details, clothing details are not hard in my book just shading for folds. I am mainly worried about the face and eyes not looking what I would want them to look like.

Work Log:

Monday: Dress

Tuesday: Arm

Wednesday: Clean up

Thursday: Looking for textures

Friday: I don't remember

Clothing

                               Introduction

Clothing is the main part of a character, my main clothing inspiration is Hanfu which is a traditional Chinese dress in ancient times. It is very similar to the kimono from Japan and has many cultural influences and different vtubers often wear traditional Asian clothing.

Inspiration

I've always liked watching anime and due to my own heritage of being Chinese, I was already familiar with the clothing style and aesthetic. I also found other vtubers with many different kimono outfits and I knew that personally, I wanted one that with more uniqueness and my personal touch.

Brainstorming

I went through different types of clothing and poses when trying to find the ones that could. I looked at many different references when making clothes. I decided that I did not want to make this too complicated for me so a simple top, skirt, blouse, and other accessories would work together. I also understood that I did not want the clothes to look like it was sewn onto the character, rather than just placed on.

Experimental

Throughout my processor making anything this was the first time I did it without a tutorial.  Honestly I think I did a decent job from looking at reference pictures and making what I thought looked right. I  also just alt + selected every body part I was starting it off of and extending it. Overall I am very satisfied with the work I did this week. And I should be done with her clothes by the end of this week.

Process

Reflection

There were some parts that confused me such as the skirt of how poofy it was suppose to be. The arms I just started to work on and honestly I am really satisfied with how they are beginning to form.

Work Log:

Monday: Bodice

Tuesday: Bodice

Wednesday: dress
Thursday: Dress

Friday: Dress

District Arts Festival display plan.

 As of right now, I am planning on sticking with my plan, maybe it will change within the month of May. My best hope is that it does not and I can continue with my original plans for the time being. My plans are not set in stone, perhaps I will change up a few things along the way. The pieces I am planning on printing out are.  

PUDDING

And my kitchen scene with my pendulum^^ I also wanted to put more of my Vtuber models

District arts Festivial

1. Triangle Display!!

2. I hope to have at least 3 prints and 4 is my max since I do want to display the other fun works I've done within the last year. I also plan to bring in my monitor from home. I want to set up 2 looping videos of my character waving and smiling on the monitor.

3. I want to hang my name down like paper letter blocks possibly, this is subject to change. My display color palette is a more sage green and peony pink due to how most of my objects are a lighter color and more pink and green. I will have one end table for displaying phone charms that I plan to sell for fun! I also will have a stool to hold up my monitor for my video connecting to the school laptop.