Plug much?


Heres a video my friends made check it out rly good.

EVEN MORE Specialist Project


ITs the one b4 the last i promise but the next ones the big one!

MORE Specialist Project



SOO nearly done just have to animate the camera and effects and render and done soo cant wait to see the final product lookin forward to seeing the animated grass at night the most =D

Specialist Project Update

Teaser:




WELL after many many many many hours im getting there closing in on the final product spent longer rigging it than any thing else hmm rigging a house... BUT im nearly happy still needs camera animation b4 rendering but with a max one minute render time rendering dosnt need a weeks notice. Having HORRIFIC issues with mental ray atm i can put the main plane head structure on when im rendering it as it causes mental ray to freeze or crash soo all my renders are with out it i think it runs out of ram well atleast thats (Travis - Re-Offender AWSOME!) what maya software says but im not sure but it does render when i take into its own file /cry. Hopfully it will all work when i render it in the labs very tempted not to render in the labs so the video is my property not the universities hmm not sure bit big headed of me to think they'll use it =p TIP:: When ur copying a render style like i have get images of what u want to copy and take swatches from that image even if there are two completely different objects the colour scheme still works well. is that cheating? i think it crosses the line into borrowing.

getting there less than a week to go

Specialist Project Update #4




Working on these renders for a while now surprised about how good they look but render times even on production only 27 seconds!!! going for a cell shaded wind waker look only done the engine part so far got the rest to do and only 9 days to do it not too concerned as yet Firfly and coffee are helping me get through so what if iv watched the series about 5 times now its the best TV series ever!

Specialist Project Update #3


Modelling very nearly done just gotta tweak and adjust looks nice will look better textured

Specialist Project





Well this mourning i finally got my internet working again been working on specialist project nearly done modelling just the top and detail to go and inside then texturing rigging etc etc in ten days easy...

Specialist Project



The start of my Specialist project easy enuf basic modeln ... fun though! Will upload concepts when i get a scanner.


11 minute render new personal best

Group work Update #3



Well its been an extremely busy past week but i think im 99% done thank goodness don't think it'll ever be 100% every time i watch it theres something i want to change all in all im quite happy with it but man am i glad i didn't have to animate a character prob put in 10 to 20 hours and this is just essentially the same animation level as the bouncing ball a 50 second full character animation would have taken me months i finally understand why it takes the pro's so long.

AND OFC with any work i produce here comes the confessions =p well none really fully my fault there are different textures for each doll and there will be different expressions and ofc sound. also the editing sticks but didn't spend any time on it when its not the final i just wanted to make this to show off.

Found out i have a specialist project to be done b4 the end of the easter holidays half glad i looked up the timetable and worried about getting it done prob why iv been crunching on my portion of the group work to get it done and out of the way. Worried i might not pass this year all cause of one essay grrr not happy but im working harder than most so hopefully it'll all work out it always seems to.... hmm.

Group Work Update 2#

This is a sneak preview of our group project the corridor with shadows this time and characters in it too think there too bright gonna turn down the translucence and clean up shadows AND get rid of that red glow being caused by the final gather. =p




Animated all but one shot thats 5/6 not really sure whats goin on in that shot gonna make 3 and let the director choose but all in all group work going very well just need to apply render settings and check over all my animation fix anything thats wrong soo still a fair bit of work will do that sunday and ill have all my section of the group work done <3 soo happy just my specialist project and two exams too go =( hmmm

First Run Cycle

First Run Cycle



FINALLY putting a video up of acctual animation all be it not great animation worked on this for bout 3 days started as a basic run added a jump and a canyon. Havnt got my Richard Willams book on animation atm =( so it will get better when i reread his chapter on running BRILLIANT BOOK!. Need to work on the landing but i'm reasonably happy with it gonna keep working on it. I enjoyed this one i rarly work on a project for longer than a day so its nice to be getting more loyal to each project.

I did a run cycle before i did a walk cycle i guess u could say i learnt to run before i learnt to walk muahahahah bad joke =(

OFC this is just a basic run going to add some personality next maybe fear or joy dont know yet.