Saturday, June 26, 2010
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Muddying the Waters
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Variations of the same model
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Man "A" stretches his vocal chords
This character will be narrating...eventually.
The animation is completely naff. It is just a looping action and hasn't been set up to emphasize the character's emotions. I'm just exercising the rig and thought I should post a clip here.
I want to make some changes to him but I will wait until I have the other models built.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Long Overdue
I made a start on a few of the characters some time ago and have been working on this one over the past few days:
Here is a WIP in which I am testing a load of things like colour, transparency, fog, glow, and particles:
Not perfect yet but good enough to know that all of the elements will work together. Once I have tweaked the rig and improved the textures I should have everything working well enough to layout the actual sequences that this guy appears in. Oh, I just remembered, I have to do another character first!
Monday, August 3, 2009
It has been far too long.
In the meantime I might post some more of my rough character sketches and thumbnails, just to give this blog a little more content.
I will get back to this project as soon as is humanly possible.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
A small update
I'm probably going to go for a mix of 2D and 3D as I think it will allow for a much more interesting look and could even speed up the production.
Another thing that keeps demanding my attention is the idea of adding about a minute of back story to the movie to further establish the characters and add some anticipation for the song. I have done some rough thumbnails to storyboard this addition but am not completely happy with it yet.
I have worked out that there will be at least 18 characters that I will have to model, texture and rig for this, even though most of them will only be seen for a few seconds. Lots to get on with and I hope to start some of them this week.