The animation with a .... je ne sais quoi!
Since I started AM I had to give up on many things and 3d modeling is one of them. Since we are at the last week of class3 I finally found a bit of time to work on this little guy. The design is from Daniel Martinez Lara www.pepeland.com from his short “Changes” which I highly recommend.
I am pretty much done with the head and will probably start the rest of the body tomorrow night. If anyone is interested I used the edge loop workflow with the basic 3dmax7 tools.
Robbie’s impression of Princess Fiona
This Q&A was the last one, the longest one to the point of nearly getting booted out by the website and the funniest ever.
We had the frustrating echo problems again but we got to hear Robbie sing a song at the guitar then do an impression of Princess Fiona. Michelle went through everyone’s work for this term except for the missing in action Salem. Carmelo couldn’t stay too long because of his TV work and eventually got booted out from the website just before his turn.
Too bad I didn’t manage to record Robbie’s song, it would have easily ended up on Youtube.
I want to thank Michelle for this great term and all my classmates. I was with most of you since Class1 and will miss you dearly for the next 3 month. Luckily some of use use Skype and the flashmeetings to stay in touch.
This term didn’t go according to plan once again but with Keith Lango’s training I should be ready to kick some butts by January. This break will allow me to strengthen my animation workflow but also to go back to modeling and lighting in my favourite package and also to get back to life drawing and sketching.
I am hoping to come back very strong and even have my own character designs for the Short Class.
Rock on!
This is just a test to try Talkr functionalities. You don’t know about Talkr? well let me tell you something… THAT ROCKS!
“blogging software vendors (hereafter called “vendors”) will allow you to change your blog template so that certain links will appear every time you post (with no additional effort by you). This step explains what the link to Talkr.com needs to look like. Note that the steps you need to take will vary slightly for each different blogging software vendor, and that the person that makes this change will need to be comfortable editing HTML”
Ok this is my new deadline. http://www.gamecareerfair.com/. As the name suggest, a game career fair in London 😉
I don’t play games, I don’t like games (except Jail Break, Ghost and Goblins, The Maze of Galious, Knightmare, you see 1980’s games…) but who knows, maybe they will like me!
I have 2 weeks to improve my shots. Thats quite tight but who knows….
Here is the blocking+ for my first acting shot. Except the mouth open/close we don’t have any facial controller yet. He is supposed to be holding a towel with the right hand but I don’t really know how I am gonna go about that yet.
There are few websites I regularly visit and thought it would be a good idea to share those links with you. I have now updated my links on the right hand side and also added something that is supposed to help people to keep track of updates on the blog. I still have to understand how it works but I think I have done what I am supposed to do to make it work. If someone can explain to me how it works exactly I will be very happy. At the moment I use the Sage plugin for Firefox and I don’t really understand what the fuzz is about.
Now regarding blogger, the system works ok and does the job for many people but lacks of few features for me. Sometimes Blogger server takes for ever to upload my posts, there is no keywords option etc… I originally thought about developing my own solution but I am not too sure how to handle the archiving. I looked at other solutions like WordPress but couldn’t figure out where to put the settings for my ftp and don’t feel like having my infos stored on a third party server (well…).
Ok that’s it for today. I will create a new post with my latest AM assignment in few minutes.
[edit] I just realised that I plugged 4 PDI people. It’s not because I worship that company even if Madagascar was just the BEST CG CARTOON EVER 😉 but more because those talented people happen to share a lot about their knowledge.
This is in no way what I would send to a company in order to get a job but I still decided to make a compilation of my animation work till now just for reference and for people who want to know what level I am at right now.
Once I get a chance to find a bit more time, I will go and rework all those assignments except the bouncing ball and the poses since I think that those are fine compared to the rest.
For the south park animation I am working on a new short with my friend Osagie and hopefully this will replace it.
Here we go. Today I had my first personal VTS. I don’t want to upset anyone so let’s just say that I am happy.
Olive
Here is the WIP of my Showreel.
I forgot to mention my friend Maciek’s blog
Olive
