Katie's Crayon Drawings...

These are images that I drew for the wall pictures of Katie's hospital room in the real world. Collectively as a group we've always wanted crayon styled images since the very beginning, so I basically used a splatter brush in Photoshop and played with the settings to try and emulate that effect. As per our story, the images drawn reflect and relate to the objects that appear within Katie's Dream World. Although these may seem like they were just scribbled up, I did have a thinking process while I was creating these images.

Here are some of the reasons why "Katie" drew these each with their own little stories.

The Glob Tree

This is one of the trees in our story. It's a purple blob-like tree that Katie has fittingly named "The Glob Tree". Pieces of it float and orbit around the main blob. It excretes feelings of comfort and happiness.

Never-ending Chocolate

Chocolate is one of the many things that can cause greed. But it also has the potential to enhance the spirit of sharing. But with Never-ending Chocolate you'll never have to be greedy or share because it'll never run out. It can feed everyone.

Golly Lollipops

The only thing better than lollipops are giant Golly Lollipops. Besides being yummy and sweet, they are able hypnotize "Meanies" and keep the "Badness-ness's''  away.

Bye Bye, Flutter By

Flutter By is one of the creatures in Katie's world that spreads joy. He glows brightly to light the way at night and helps 

Best Flowers Forever

Katie's world is populated by a lot of friendly flowers which have all been individually named by her. These are some of Katie's closest flower friends -

Binky the cheerful, Frin the helpful and Figma the funny.

Crossing Bridget

This is Bridget the Bridge. She helps those in need get to where they need to go and guides them in the right direction.

Licorice Riddle Sticks

These licorice sticks grow up from the ground. It you are able to find the answer to their riddles you may be granted a "special treasure". This is also my own personal easter egg for one of my favorite Final Fantasy games.

I CAN CONTROL RAINBOWS!

Swirl Surfer is Katie's superhero alter ego. She possesses the power to create and control rainbow swirls. She also travels by surfing on them. Can change the colours of anything by touch.

Beautyflies  

Glowing butterflies collecting nectar from the friendly flowers. The nectar helps them glow brighter.

Starfish Smash

One of Katies favorite Saturday morning cartoons called "Starfish Smash". It's about a naughty boy named Tierone who was just a little terror. His horrible actions finally result in himself being terrorized by a giant Starfish. This is an easter egg for Group 1's story.

Imaginary Skies

This is a picture Katie drew from one of her favorite story books, "Imaginary Skies". Very relate-able to Katie because she has a very big imagination as well. This is an easter egg for Group 3's story.

Mr Nagaraj

Katie's favorite teacher, Mr Nagaraj. This is another easter egg and a small dedication to our 3D tutor Raj.

And that's about it. It was fun drawing these pictures. All these images will be in the ending scenes of our short film. This is very much a showcase of my inner 6 year old girl! Lol!

Butterfly Texture...

Butterfly Texture

Getting closer to animating scene 11 I almost forgot to paint up textures for the butterfly. Uv'd the butterfly wings and body then painted textures using Photoshop following my final butterfly design. The antenna's, eyes and legs have plain blinn materials applied.

Butterfly Texture Applied

At first I applied a blinn material to the wings but they were too shiny and reflective. So I changed the applied material to lambert. Also added a glow effect to both wings.

Butterfly Close Up

The butterfly's looking pretty good and the textures don't distort at all.

Butterfly Render Test

The glow effect looks super bright in this picture because there are no lights. But it will look more believable in the fully lit scene.

Bunny Slippers...

Final Bunny Slipper Texture

This is the final texture for Katie's bunny slipper. The UV's are a bit messed up because we were short of time. I only coloured the parts we needed which consists of the top and bottom faces and the slipper ears. This one singular texture was applied to both slippers and worked really well despite the UV catastrophe.

Applied Bunny Slipper Textures

This is what the textures looked like when applied.  Although our slippers have somewhat evolved from our final model sheet version, but the changes were necessary for rigging purposes. They still look like bunnies so that's fine.

Bunny Slipper Render Test (Bottom)

Paw prints on the soles just for a more creative feel. It won't look so boring if the bottoms are ever shown on camera in any of our shots.

.Bunny Slipper Render Test (Top)

Looking good from the top view also. Lighting will be fixed later in production.

Pajamas...

Final Pajama Shirt Texture 

Had to redo the UV for the collar because it previously wasn't unfolded. Applied some more patterns but kept them away from the seams where the UV cuts are. I previously was going to try and match overlapping patterns with the opposing sides but it didn't really work because there was some stretching near the edges where the cuts were. Did some basic shading around the edges to give it a nice tonal gradient so the colours wouldn't look too bland.

Final Pajama Shorts Texture 

Shorts were pretty simple because they're just one colour. Added a little shading on the sides and middle as well.

Applied Pajama Textures (Front)

Textures looked pretty good when applied. Everyone agreed that they looked okay.

Applied Pajama Textures (Back)

Notice how they are no patterns directly on her sides where the UV cuts were made. Those empty spaces aren't too noticeable because I put some patterns close to the cut edges.

Render Test

This is our test render using Mental Ray. It really gives a soft feel to Katie which is what we are aiming for. She looks a bit pale due to our use of physical sun and sky light simulation. This will be fixed later on.