The TOAD

we had a week out of our normal college schedule to do a week long project with some ND students, and the theme of this was a b-movie. (all of the final animations were hilariously good and it was a fast moving project that I enjoyed)

Here was the result of my group:

Be afraid.... Be very afraid...

updates on Joy the Magpie

Joy the Magpie

a lot has happened since my last post on this little guy, he is now rigged and with help, he now has a working grip and a more advanced leg rig! (thanks shaun!)

I've been spending a lot of time weight painting him and he's nearly weighted. and the best news of all --> he can fold his wings! this was a problem I've been trying to figure out during the whole modeling of him, but i finally have a wing fold I'm happy with.

Here is a few pic

tures with the pupils added, and some of the weighting, showing some poses:

Rabbit animation complete!

Here is the final Rabbit animation, from the live brief my and my group (shaun, Gareth and James) worked on:

There are still a couple of issues that can be reviewed. But now that the project is over I am very happy with the way the characters and animation came out, its really my first big 3D animation and it turned out nicely.

4mations project

This is the 4mations project my group has been working on. I have been unfolding the main logo with added polygons. also in this pic is the paper plane i modeled to be part of our origami theme.

Non Linear Animation reference

NLA Motion System from jerryc4d on Vimeo.

this is posted here for reference with my magpie animation, I would like to make some animation loops as part of my project and this would make the animation process so much easier because these loops can (as seen in the video) be overlapped, easing one clip into another, or easing out and into a single clip. very helpful!

Ident research 2

This is the intro to Russel howards Good news, a show i really love, with an interesting short intro which i assume is created with stop motion. This would work really well with the logo I have been given because its similar to origami, and i would like to have an element of that in my ident.

Ident research 1

i have chosen to look at this particular ident from sierra because i really like the idea of using something soft or liquid stuff, and cutting into it to create something stiff. the channel 4 logo i have been given to use in my group is a very stiff looking and would work well with this.