This week you will finish the first project. We postponed the deadline for the submission to the 27th of May.

During the classes this week you can ask for advice, feedback etc.

Regarding the quality of submitted animation and renders: This time try to make sure your project is presented in the best possible way! 

Few tips:

• Render in Perspective View only! 
• Make sure you positioned the model right in the camera view! And yes, you can crop the lower part of the model.
• Never align the camera and light - the model would look totally flat.
• Yes, you can animate lights as well :-)

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Lights

We talked about the lighting last semester but this time lights are important! Even though you using the environmental map it is a good idea to make your model more pronounced in form. Lights are "modelling" the form, which can be presented in various ways. See how the face looks under the different lighting conditions:

More study materials:

Blur background / HDRI - you can blur the background thus the attention is even more on your render piece without any visual distraction. To do it, follow these steps:

In the Render / Film settings enable Transparent to give a transparent background.
In the Render Layers panel enable an Environment pass
Then blur the environment pass and Alpha over your scene render on top of this blurred background

Or you an bring HDRI into any photo editor and blur it there before using in your scene....

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If you are already done with your project, create some new texture for your head! It can be some reptilian, alien etc. See textures in the study materials or find your own. Please submit those as well.

We looking forward to see your work!