Asheville, NC

I'm visiting the wife's family for the week here in Asheville, Nc. There's not much time to work on things as I would like so I've been trying to take some notes on Normal Maps and learn a few things. Set up some ideas for projects I want to model over the summer. I've already got an ambitious list together but I think it's feasible if I stay ambitious enough. I'm thinking that won't be hard to do as the more I learn the more I want to try those new things out and turn them into usable skills.

In keeping with my idea of wanting to model a vehicle, by summers end I want to model a semi truck and trailer. I'm thinking something old school.

Again, I typically like to pick projects that are fun, interesting, and something that I can relate to. So to model something like the truck below would hit close to home. My Granddad was a truck driver with Standard Trucking for a very long time (not exactly sure how long) and has been a truck driver for over 50 years. I used to remember seeing him pull his truck and trailer next to the house all the time when I'd visit. Although he's no longer a truck driver anytime I mention travels through NC he can still name near about every road and the quickest way to a destination. Personal projects like this certainly help me focus on my goal and are enough to keep me motivated to see a project through.


Anyways, if anyone's reading this or following then keep checking back often to see some of the projects throughout the summer.

As I progress I hope to start getting a good workflow pipeline in place for myself to make my models game engine friendly.

The Marmoset Toolbag from 8 Monkey Labs is an awesome program to render your models in real-time with it's respective maps. Check it out. At 50 bucks it's a steal!