For my current 3D animation class, I plan on doing an animation of Faia-Su (the Goutari from a couple years ago) exploring a cave, lighting a candle, and having the candle melt in his 'hands'. In the previous animations I played with a glowing effect, but now I want to really wade deep into lighting.

( Picture-heavy update )

I am modeling Joslyn, which is involving a total redesigning of her head shape to actually be possible in 3D. Also going through a pretty good tutorial on making the head, and it's made me restart a couple times, but is working well so far. As usual with 3D, it won't look like much of anything until it's near completion.
( But here's the profiles I'm modeling off of now )

Faia-Su is now done being skinned! Oh man. X3 Finding little spots to fix in the actual image file, but I'm done with painting it. Already rigged, if loosely. So, maybe give normal mapping another try (it freaked with Alex), adjusting the rigging, and then on to coming up with animations~! At the least: idle, walk, and jump ( Read more... )

So a few changes in the 3D modeling ( Read more... )

( More recent 3D developments, color problems )

Last entry was sad, so here's one to say I'm ok. Sleeping trouble, but that happens at the slightest stressor ( Read more... )

This is beautiful. It made me cry when I realized what was going on. It's a very high quality, worth watching in fullview.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

So for my 3D class' final (yes, we're starting it now) we have to do a 60 second animation. Basically we can focus on what we want, so if one did a lot of good modeling it's ok if textures and animation are really basic.
I made a Pawn!TechCat, very similar to this one for the sake of doing a focus on animations. I was going have it hop around, ( Read more... )