Oops, it's been a while. Life got a little... well, crazy. Anyway, since my last update I've mostly been working on the character sculpts and more research. I've been working my way through Special Effects: The History and Technique by Richard Rickett, which is a really interesting read, I highly recommend it. I've also been working my way through an FxGuide article by Mike Seymour called The Art of Rendering, which has a lot of information about the different renderers and some interesting history as well. Mike Seymour has a couple other good/useful articles as well - The State of Rendering - Part 1 and The State of Rendering - Part 2. It's really amazing to read just how much goes into developing these render engines and how much they have developed over the years.
As far as modeling goes, I'm trying to wrap up all my modeling and sculpting in the next few weeks. This stage has taken a lot longer than I anticipated because I'm still a bit slow and clumsy in ZBrush, but I've definitely learned some good tricks and am starting to get faster. Regardless, I need to wrap it up and move onto the texturing stage - the goal is to finish my thesis by the end of August, so I need to stay on top of everything and keep up a pretty good pace.
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