It's a small world V2 update

I've nearly animated all off the park scene. Here's a little snapshot.

I need to adjust the camera angle and make a few tweaks still. I'll upload a playblast when I've finished animating the scene.

I'm not really focusing of this project at the moment. I'm currently trying to teach my self Photoshop  Illustrator and After Effects. I'll upload some pictures once I get a bit better at it. 

Park Scene

I'm working on a scene at the moment that's in a sort of run down park. Ii haven't put all the scenery in yet.

At first a just used one polygon plane and applied the grass to it but i had this problem. 

I tried experimenting with soft/rigid bodies and dynamics but I couldn't do it. 

So i had to delete faces and shape the vertices so it could look like this. It still needs a lot of work but this is the way I think I'll have to do it.

It's been a while...

I haven't posted anything for a while. I've just been getting used to working 40 hours a week.

I've been working on a new better better version of this...




I'll still be using the same character but i changed him a little bit.

It's all rigged and ready to animate with. I'm just going to do some short animation tests before i start animating the final film.

I want to film to have a post apocalyptic feel to it...but with a spaceship.

Memento Mori

I am currently animating some extra scenes for Memento Mori. 

I'm planning on entering it into Flip and BAF.

New Project

I started a new project.

I'm going to do a few lip sync animations using audio i recorded a few years ago.

Here's one of the characters i'll use.

New Character

Took me a while but I've rigged my character. I rigged it with switchable IKFK arm and Back and neck IK handles.

All that's left to do is facial expressions

New character

I made a new character.

Just so i can experiment with different rigs.

Updated Show Reel

Memento Mori

Memento Mori

Just putting all the images together into video files now. 

Recorded all my sound effects. I should be posting the final film either later today or tomorrow.

Renders

I rendered all of the scenes. I just put in a spotlight that casts shadows and an ambient light with no shadow so it's not too dark. On some scenes i used two spotlights to light up the door.

I had to re-render the first scene because the light was too bright. But I'm happy with the results.

The Dance

Here's a few screen shots of the start of the dance. Nearly finished animating now.

Next i'll put up lighting and render tests.

Ghost Texture

Decided I'd do a black and white texture instead of just black.

I think it looks better. I think the plain white sometimes looks blurry.

Need to delete a few faces from inside the hairline but other than that I'm happy.

Final Film Update

Started to animate the start of the dance. Not sure about the texture of the lady.

Need to make few more tweaks to it and possibly delete some faces.

Final film Update

Made a few changes to the lighting but that's likely to change again. I changed the the fire to colour as well, the only thing that will be in colour.

Finally started animating. So far I've got about 6 seconds.

Here's a few screen shots.

I'm going to call the final film Memento Mori.

The Raven

Decided i won't be using the Raven. I don't think it adds anything to the story.

Raven texture

I textured the raven to look almost like a shadow.

I'm unsure on whether i'll include the raven in the final film. I don't think it will add anything to the film.

Raven

Here's the raven model.

It was modeled by Tim Lozinski and rigged by me.

Update

Modeled the female character.

And rigged it.

The next step is to texture her so she looks ghostly.

Music

Got my music for the dance.

https://vimeo.com/40448158

Thanks to my Dad and Brother for doing it.