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In this module, I have learned a lot of new things and I improved in each of them. In the beginning, I was worried that my skills in Maya will not improve quickly enough, I was confused most of the time, but I prioritized this module to the point I understood what I was doing and I knew what I wanted to do. Although I know I've still got a lot of room for improvement to be really good and skilled in 3D, I think it is not bad for my first 3D character. The final look of my character has changed a bit during the process, I wanted her to look both, human and non-human, at the same time. That is why I changed few proportions of her face, to give her more "alien" look, to show she is not completely human. Her glowing eyes without pupils add to the extraterrestrial look. Another change I made was the denim jacket. I didn't make it to show the texture of her jumper more because I think it is the best part of my character with all those details. I also changed the shoes ...

UV mapping and texturing were also done during the Christmas break but I decided to make a separate blog post for them, together with lighting. In the beginning, I had some problems with UV mapping. It just did not work and I was already in Slovakia so I contacted Kristina for 3 days crying how it is not working at all. Crying helps, I guess, because after that I successfully UV mapped everything in one afternoon.  For textures, I combined photos and digital painting with filters. I also used bump maps for every texture, I just didn't include them all in this blog post because most of them were so subtle, that they just looked like grey squares. Photos of my knitwear were used for the jumper which was the most difficult texture I made for my character. I had to tweak those photos without damaging the pattern and connect it in places where it was not connected in the photo. For the texture of the skirt I had to make a texture which looks like thick fabric...