More Progress!

Got some more thesis progress here... Ned/Joey is just about done.. and I'm hoping to get the kangaroo done this weekend so I can work out some story kinks. All crits are encouraged and welcome as usual :) I'm starting to worry about rigging up the pouch and the legs/tail of the kangaroo now :( If anyone has some insight into that, please let me know! Thanks!

more rough updates

Here are some more Ned screenshots... tried to make the changes people commented on. Haven't had much time to do a whole lot lately. Internship just got over with a few days ago... and it got kinda crazy at the end. I've got the kangaroo roughed out in Sculpy right now, and barely started in 3d. I'll see what I can get done before next wednesday...

Thesis!

Been meaning to post some screenshots of where I'm at to get some feedback, but my internet at the hotel is hit and miss most of the time.

This is my main character Ned. The first screenshot is where he was, then I did some sculpy tests and kind of locked down his face some. I wanted to get peoples opinions on shapes and see if they liked the old one more.





He is very roughed out at this moment. I've been too lazy lately! Let me know on shape and silhouette value or anything else that you see/hate/love :). Below are the sculpy shots... I added a line drawn version as the photos came out blurry.

LipSync Project

Well the LipSync project is finally done. Theres a lot of little things that I would like to change before I put it on my reel. Not sure I'll have time for that right now. There are just some little pops and hitches in certain parts that really bugs me. I gotta move on and start working on Take Two and pre production, however. I'll post some pics of my characters for Prepro as soon as I get some free time. For now, Enjoy the show!

LipSync Project: The Good Stuff
( Note: You may want to right click and Save Target As... The video is very dark when played in browser. Sorry about that.)

Blendshapes!!

Muahaha, this is called the hillbilly blendshape. Its mostly used when I'm chewing tobacco and enjoying some banjo playing on my front porch.

Caricature for Lip-Sync

Yay for caricatures! I've got my model done so far and rough textures. The head is mostly done texture wise and I've started to work on blendshapes. Preproduction is really getting to be a workload now so sleep is becoming to be less and less of an option. Oh well, it'll all be worth it in the end... hopefully.

So I heard about this thing called blogspot...

So I heard through the grapevine about this site called blogspot... not sure how many of you have heard about it but it allows you to post your thoughts, ideas, art, or just randomness! Ok.. so enough of that, I finally got off my lazy butt and got a blog made. I'll start off with just my latest animation for now and then I'll post the previous ones in the near future.


This was our last animation of the year... Basically we had to take whatever push and pull we had from our previous animation (I'll post that later) and then exaggerate it as much as possible. I really enjoyed this type of animation and I think I'm gonna explore pose-2-pose more in my animations to come. But thats that for now, hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and an amazing New Year!