Week 17

Feb 20, 2018
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This week went smooth up until the end when the charger for my laptop short circuited. (the laptop is fine, but had to replace the charger, which lucky I had already had ordered since the cord seemed to be having issues.) Hence my update being a day late.

Anyways, I made two different versions of the trumpet texture, one the classic brass while the other being a silver brass. The classic brass is on display, while the other will be among the band seating.

I like the textures for most of the percussion section overall, simply minor tweaks here and there. For example the texture is very obviously the same on both timpani's due to a scratch, so I will re-export a slightly different one and may up some of the value contrast on the piece as well. The xylophone feels very dark overall, which I tried to break up by adding silver screws, but I feel I may need to up the contrast on that as well.

I have the pieces placed in unreal to better evaluate the textures. I am also considering making a concrete texture for the band room floor as well, but am not decided on this yet.