For those of you in RI, here it is finally ( Read more... )

So this is basically my model fully textured and for the most part rigged. Weighting needs to be addressed, but considering some of the feedback I received from my presentations (and my own perfectionist ideals) I'm probably going to completely re-model her anyways. Regardless, this was a great first learning experience into correct character ( Read more... )

So this came out so much better than my midterm it's not even funny. I think things finally started to "click" in all the good ways here, and it makes me really happy. Even my professor was very impressed, and that says something ( Read more... )

This class has probably been my largest timesink this semester, although with good reason. Character animation is really still what 3D is still all about, and it's very important to get it down right, make it look good, and have fluid motion ( Read more... )

Well, a lot happened to my model since I last updated a month or so ago. She's my main character for my Senior Project, so I'm both trying to get over my learning curve fast with the proper way to model, as well as killing two birds with one stone ( Read more... )

Er, whoops, so it's been some time since I've posted. Going to be dumping some things, apologies for the spam.

Anyways, this is left over from my animation class from my first semester.

( The mushroom time lapse from a previous entry... )

So this is the current project I'm attempting in my animation class. Essentially, take a natural phenomenon and attempt to mimic it.

I'm doing a time lapse of a mushroom after some thought (and finding a kick ass video of exactly what I wanted) and my professor (to somewhat of my own surprised) loved the idea. The fun part is, not only is it a ( Read more... )

So naturally after doing an initial walk cycle with just the bare bones (ha, pun intended!), we would of course add a character next ( Read more... )

So we learned about walk cycles, and, well, it's amazing how much more my eyes have opened up to how people move, and how you could almost define our walks as our own identity. And I have to say, one of the best books ever that I have come across reading, has been the Animator's Survival Kit, courtesy of Richard Williams. The man behind Who Framed ( Read more... )

Very first assignment of my animation class. This is another one of those things the more I look back on it, the more I realize how much better I've already gotten in the ten weeks or so of the semester. And I know that's only a good thing ( Read more... )