Lizard man! - now new with complete rigging!

Rigged with controllers and 2 spines'!

yeah so he's all rigged up now, I did have trouble with the tips of the feet twisting when he was lifted from the ground, even though the foot roll seemed to be working great. I desperately tried to figure out the problem, and I think it might have been the simple fact that the heel nulls and foot controller were not flat on the XZ plane... anyway I remade them and they seem to be working fine. now for the weight painting. (because the auto-weighting seems to like to play with his hair a lot.

- Rachel out.

strengths and weaknesses

I have had a look throughout the rigging hand out, and it looks quite difficult for me. however, I feel I am very confident with cinema4D model building, and the morphs are quite straightforward. I would like to focus most of my time these weeks in animating and rigging the model right, because a set back in these last few weeks would cost me too much.

this week's targets

1 - I should be finished rigging and morphing by the end of this week

2 - I would also like to try and complete my 500 word essay over the weekend, if not, make a start on it.

3 - I will finish my 3D character design research as I am behind on it at the moment.

Gila Tyson is ready to rumble

update - Lizard man's evolution.

beginning with a cube model... Here is the updated, coloured and textured model. the last few pictures are with global illumination, and with a little texture editing and all of the morphs added, i'll be done!

I do enjoy making him look at the screen, ... its funny :)

the last 3 pictures are from the finished model.

The Baltic Gallery Visit

The Baltic Gallery

Within the Baltic gallery, there was one exhibition which really stood out to me. And that was the works of artist 'Jenny Holzer' and her LED series. With this one in particular, the words flowed up the room slowly, and occastionally blurred out of focus, I found it very calming.

However, underneath this pleasing light show, the text that was shown was actually quite gruesome, as it was the information of iraq war victims, who were interrogated and killed. dates of their death etc, was shown and made everyone in the gallery room silent.

The Laing Gallery visit

The Laing Gallery

Firstly within the Laing gallery, I found the original painting "Isabella and the pot of basil" created by William Holman Hunt, and I just couldnt believe how super realistic it was, especially a painting. texturing and colouring can give a character such depth, i should really practice more on it. Another super realistic piece within the gallery, was George Clausen's "The stone Pickers"

I found another piece, a more modern work by artist 'Mike Challenger' entitled: "Green Jay" shown to the left here. I really like the use of a very liimited palette to create a sense of the picture being 3 dimentional. It also reminds me stongly, of the 3-coloured glitch-like animations produced by David O'reilly.

Another work I found interesting, was the 3D optical illusions created by artist: Bridget Riley. Here, she created a set of pictures she named: "Fragments, series of seven" and I also liked the illusion of 3D with as little colour as possible. inface with only lines to create this purpose, I believe it must be a very difficult vision to create.

E4 mosquito stinger

E4 Stinger - Mosquito

Here is my E4 stinger, and although I liked the result of it, the use of a HD background video, made the file size huge, and often did not allow smooth playback.

I also prefer watching the flash only part with the green background, because its easier to see the insect, and i like the look of the flash parts.