Kennys feathers are Done

Kenny has been completly feathers it took a while to get the look right and a nice layerd look to the feathers,

From here i will export the model as an FBX to use in Substance as my detail map. 

Then i decimated the model down to a more manageable poly count from its original 4 million. this model i will export as an obj to take into Maya to retoplologize as the base low poly model for kenny,

Kenny In ZBrush

Taking the Kennys Base model into Zbrush.

I am going to be Using Zbrush to add the detailing and feathers to  Kenny.

I chose to use Zbrush to add Kenny's feathers as I will be creating a high poly normal map that I can take into substance painter and place as a displacement map over the base low poly model of Kenny.


The Feathers way i am adding the feathers to Kenny model is i created a feather in zbrush and saved it as a obj then i created a Zbrush brush using that obj and a alpha map i made from a few of the feathers duplicated into a pattern.

I folowed a Tutorial from a Content create and art i like called 3Dex he is an assest creator for games.

Blogging as a Method of Inquiry.

1. Explain in what sense the writers of blogs can be considered "simultaneously human, machine and text".

Barnes Doesn't really elaborate on this point just making reference to Cyborgic. 

2. How do you think blogging can be considered "an act of becoming"?

If the writer post consistently and is open to feedback they will have a consistent forum for feed back and critique this can lead to consistent change and development of the project.

3. How do you think blogs set up relationships across time and space?

Blogs as a method of inquiry are bases on answering a question and presenting your process this is information that can always be useful to others around the world and further generations wanting to learn from your process. 

4. What, according to Barnes does 'blogging as inquiry' as a method challenge? Do you agree? Why/Why not?

 according to Barnes blogging as an inquiry  is a form of collaborative writing. I agree  as a blog you open your self to feedback and Critique. 

5. What according to Barnes are the simultaneous roles a blogger performs? Explain each of these roles.

6. How, according to Barnes is writing collaborative? What are the examples she uses to reinforce this idea?

7. Describe what Barnes means by the creation of "cyber-textual-organic relationships" through blogging.

8. In what way does Barnes relate blogging to assemblage?

9. How does blogging open up avenues for criticism and what could be the benefits associated with this?

10. What are the "considerable ramifications for public and scholarly engagement" resultant from the "clickable capability of blogs"?

11. How can a blog be thought of as a collaboration between the past, present and future?

12. What does ethical blogging consider?/

13. Barnes states "There is no singular entity responsible for the text that sits on the screen". Explain what point she is trying to make here.

14. Barnes states "writing is not just something that I do separate from my life." Explain what point she is trying to make here.

15. How do your/might your experiences inform your blogging process?

16. What role do you think personal experiences have in blogging inquiry?

17. What issue did the acknowledgement of personal experience in the context of academia raise for Barnes?

18. How did "expressivist composition techniques" help address this problem for Barnes?

19. Describe how you think blogging embraces a style of writing uncommon in academic literature.

20. Do you Think a blog could be considered an "act of academic activism"? Do you agree? Why/Why not?

21. How does Barnes propose blogging is a form of " academic activism"? Do you Agree? Why/Why not?

22. What role did writing autobiographically play in "academic activism" for Barnes?

23. How was the reaction of the Audience a transformative process to Barnes?

24. What was Barnes reminded of through the blog for The Conversation and why is this significant?

25. How, according to Barnes is blogging an iterative process?

26. What does Barnes say her blogging is a record of and why?

27. What happens, according to Barnes, when the focus is on the Reader?

28. In what way has Barnes’ blogging practices become a reading management system?

29. What according to Barnes is the difference between this paper about blogging as a method of inquiry and her blog?

30. Why do you think blogging should be considered in the development of writing and composition theory?

31. What do you think Barnes means when she says "My blogging is a map not a snapshot"?

32. How is the "power over the production of knowledge" intersected through blogging?

Kenny Continue

Kennys Head Fun times

I ended up with a body i was happy for Kenny that was closing in on the shape i had in my 2D animatic.

The Face was something I was not looking forward to  for the past two weeks i have been modeling the face, unfortunately, my got a bit lost in the process and wasn't really documenting how i did it.
Getting a basic shape model was the first step for kenny i followd how i designed his character turn around by creating a very rounded head. This was what the model was looking like as i started to get frustrated at how you make a beak.

I ended up using a combination of Megan animal anatomy books and a lot of reference images. 

Final beak Look.

The initial heads design had a very low Polycount that i didn't think would work woth the movement and flexability i wanted in the head so i added some more topology while test different face shapes