Week 3 Tasks (To be completed during Studio)

• Throughout studio, the tutors will look at your folded paper comparisons, and give an indication of your success at the task (this task, as well as other tasks will count towards your overall blog grade for the course).

• In consultation with your tutor, pick two of the five Creatures that you created as independent study over the last week, which you are most interested in developing habitats/dwellings for.

• Refine your two creatures, and their descriptions, being particularly descriptive and encompassing with the text describing the nature of your creatures. Your tutors can help give suggestions about how your creatures and descriptions may be improved.

• Start with some expressive sketching that explore the emotive themes of your habitat/dwelling for each creature.

• Do an interior and an exterior expressive sketch, by hand, of a habitat/dwelling for each of your two chosen creatures, using a drawing implement and sketch book that you have brought to studio.

• Think of your creatures as your clients, creating spaces that capture the personality of your creations.

• These sketches should convey a solid understanding of your environments, and should all be little pieces of art in their own right.

• As your ideas develop on paper, start to transfer your sketched ideas to a 3D modelling application as rough 3D sketches which you can use to assist your understanding of the 3D nature of your creatures' habitats, creating a 3D dwelling for each of your 2 creatures.

• Alternate between your hand drawn expressive sketches and your chosen modelling applications to refine and develop your ideas.

• Always consider the polygon count of your models, being aware of where you can use geometry and where you van use materials/texturing to achieve good effects using minimal polygons.
  

• Be sure to capture images of your developing digital model environments that show the progression of your ideas.