The animation with a .... je ne sais quoi!
I saw this yesterday and thought it would be fun to model it over the week end….
I didn’t think it would take so long but this is where I am 5 hours later. Click on the picture for a bigger version.
If you are interested, I have also recorded a timelapse video as usual and will post it when done with the modeling tomorrow.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9936173[/vimeo]
This time I am modeling the hands. I am not looking at references yet, just blocking out the shapes.
You will see me starting from a cube, which I subdivide manually to extrude faces and create the fingers.
I push the details on one fingers then duplicate it to create the other ones. Very often you will see me going from low poly to high poly using the 1 and 3 keys in maya 2009.
and here is the second pass
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9924238[/vimeo]
Third pass, refining the shape, cleaning up some edges, adding more detail
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHxU-TFHSM[/youtube]
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Low polygon modeling tools
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9780845[/vimeo]
Here is a video showing the modeling process for my tribute to Pixar’s “Up”.
You can double click to see the video in Full screen but if you first click on the Vimeo logo you will be able to see it in full 1600×1200. You might also be able to download the video from Vimeo, it is in Xvid/Divx, sorry I don’t have Quicktime pro but Virtual Dub or KMplayer allow you to go frame by frame if needed.
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Up or down?
I was writing a Twitter Tweet and while comparing the boxoffice takings from Pixar’s “Up” to Blue Sky’s “Ice age 3 (Dawn of the Dinosaurs)”, I realised that the numbers are actually much worse than what jumps to the eyes.
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I found that 17 minutes tour of Pixar with Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera. It looks like it was especially recorded for french website Allocine so you might have not seen it before.
Mathieu Cassagne
Je viens de decouvrir plusieurs interview video de Mathieu Cassagne, Lighteur chez Pixar. Tres interessant surtout quand on sait que les lighteurs sont en forte demande aux Etats Unis. Ils etaient 40 sur UP and Mathieu nous fait partager son experience apres 8 mois chez Pixar.
