Tom C – A MDS Blog

Characters now have their rigs layed out, tomorrow I weight paint the meshes onto the skeleton. Which means I can pose them in my scene easily.
If I wanted, I could animate these characters to do what ever I want.
Breakdancing anyone?

Time to play catch up for the past few weeks.
Rocket scene with paint effects foliage

Texturing test

Aneta head texturing

Volumetric Lighting

First animatic for my production reel at Media Design School.

With this, my animation module finishes.
Coming up in lighting, rendering and texturing over the next 6 weeks.
Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to pass out from exhaustion.

Just a little teaser of this weeks project..

Expect updates as it progresses.

See, think, shock

Animated reaction.
Buddy!

Character lipsyned to a voice clip from ‘The Incredibles‘ animated movie by Pixar
I’ve had it with women…

Character animated to a voice clip by Fry from Futurama.

Last week: Rigging and Binding
The reason why I didn’t post last week, I thought this would be dreadfully boring and technical. But here you have it, a weeks work.
Control Rig: The yellow shapes around the body are what the animator uses to easily edit their model. These are called Control Handles. And they are [...]

Heavy box Push.
-How it changed

-Final

Heavy box Lift
-Final

It was an interesting week, learnt alot about mixing parenting into the animation and how to do it properly and to how fix the errors when we encountered them.

Days go by and no still no updates, hmm not good enough I say.
Well I will make up for that this weekend with a big bunch of videos and comparison stuff from the entire week’s work.
For my life drawing class we were asked to do a drawing of a drawing. So I chose one of [...]

This is 12 hours of work in, with hundreds of little tweaks to the movement of the hackey kick.

Giving YouTube ago aswell.