Judge feedback

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• Contestant: Kade Griffin / @Kade Griffin Assessor: Tristan McGuire / @Draconic_Cowboy Tier: Rising Star Congrats on completing your project! Things that went well: ✧ The development of the concept is strong and well documented. ✧ Your ability to self-critique is great and shows a willingness to continue to learn, which is a great soft skill to have. ✧ It’s great to see that you did attempt to complete each stage of the pipeline, even though you acknowledged that you were not very familiar with many areas. ✧ Use of polygroups in Zbrush. Things to consider next time: ✧ Next time, try manual retopology using Maya’s Quad Draw. ✧ As groom art is quite an advanced skill, take some time to research the industry standard methods of hair card placement. It is best to place the cards by hand or with a plugin such as GS Curves, rather than using Xgen, as the Xgen result is not at all optimised. ✧ When UV unwrapping, try to make the islands as straight and aligned to the grid as possible, as this allows you to pack them into the square more efficiently. ✧ Rigging is an advanced technical skill that technically lies within tech art rather than character art, so don’t worry about not being an expert rigger. If you do want to learn rigging I would highly recommend the book Rig it Right by Tina O'Hailey, as well as the Advanced Skeleton plugin for Maya. As you are in the Rising Star tier, I hope this feedback can be used to inform how you approach future university projects and I would love to see you take part in the competition again next year! You can find me on the social medias in the link below. Feel free to reach out in the future. All the best! https://draconic-cowboy.carrd.co/ - Tristan, Character Artist at Airship Interactive.