Reading Week

Well I probalbly should have said something months ago but I guess I was a little busy. Schools back and I spent most of my time working on various projects leaving my personal ones on hold, I had a reading week so I thought this was a good time to say something. I recently begun working on a dolphin with a stamp face that I'm currently rigging and eventually animating aswell as a 1 minute video short about a mime that I'll be working on throughout the school year. While working on these new assignments I still managed to get some more work done on my harpy, (still not satisfied with the hair).

Also I'm planning to move my blog sometime in the future, not sure when but I'd like it to look a lot more professional than this one, (I'd like to do it when I get the habbit of actually updating this one).

Character Project Progress: June 27

Well I nkow it's been a while but I guess that's just how things work. I got caught up in unity plus I have work and I'm participating on a mod team so my blog was kind forgotten. I fineshed the body a couple weeks ago but I gotta warn you, if you are easily startled then don't view the pictures I'm about to show. Overall it took me about three tries to get this body looking right, I don't have many tools to work with here just the various tips I get on forums and videos on youtube so be nice about this please.

Quick Animation

I don`t know what is taking so long for my book on Unity to arrive and I was getting bored from the video tutuorials so I decided to do a quick rig and animation of the crab you saw last week. I was hoping to start my animations and rigs after I became familiar with how Unity works to avoid redoing my work but after waiting so long for my proper learning tools I just couldn`t help myself. I`ll most likely be remaking this animation in the future and quite possibly even the rig. The crab you see know has also changed and it will continue to change through-out the summer as I try to lower it`s poly count. I wasn`t even sure if I should have botherd to post this but I figured I could use this as an opertunity to update everybody on what I`m doing.

Idea

I want you to take a good look at his crab, cause eventually I will make it beautiful. I started working on my new project this morning and I came up with a good start for my crab that I plan on making a game for. To be honest I didn't model him on the spot, about a month ago I was sketching up crabs for a game play idea that I wanted to make happen and today I finally got bit by the motivation bug. Fortunately this bug bite wont be going away for a while cause I'm dedicated to this project, (I may be putting my character on hold for a while but I still have an update that I want to put up on this blog). I just ordered a book to help me learn up on Unity and I'm already refining my game play idea. I won't tell you what kind of game it will be yet but I'll post the art and animations for it here while you wait.

Character Project Progress: April 24

By now you can tell that the character is a girl, (I hope), but like I said this won't be a human. The hair looks wierd now but trust me this is only the first step you must take before achiving realistic hair/fur. I know it looks like I got very little done since my time in March but I actually did have a body almost done however it looked SO bad that I did not want to show you it, (I'm currently doing some study on female atonomy). I also put some teeth and a tounge in her mouth but you cant see it or at least not yet. That said after my studies on... female curves, (giggle), are done I'll get right on to showing you the body.

UDK Grave Yard

I'm on a role today :) Well actually I've been working on this for some time with the same team that I did the dance with. I'm responcible for about 1/4 of the animations/ static meshes you see in this video aswell as half of the camera work. I few things look crummy but we were learning about UDK while doing this so you can tell how far along we got closer tothe end of the video.

Rendered Dance - Virtual Insanity

That render went quicker than I thought... woot

The song is not mine it was sung by Jamiroquai and once more the rigs are not mine either, there from elevenSecondClub.com

I Just finished up a dance that my friends and I were working in. The rigs are not ours, they are from elevenSecondClub and have only had a few minor edits added to them. My friends, Warren Riparip and Takafumi Yamasaki worked on the blond dancer and the All-white dancer respectively, while I worked on both of the Eleven Rigs as well as make a few minor edits on the blond dancer. I was also in charge of positioning of the dancers and the camera work for this scene. Takafumi will do the Lighting and Renduring very shortly and after today we should be done... not satisfied but done :P

Lighting Practice

The contents in the scene aren't mine, they are Mr. Eassaf's... my teacher, I was just doing the lighting and positioning of the furniture. Normally I don't post school work on here unless there REALLY good but I get the feeling that this blog becomes quite barren when I'm at school.

Anyways I'll add more stuff real soon and as for the Character I've been working on.... iiit's still comming but I've did a few experiments with it and wasn't happy so I'll only show you the head and hair. Comming soon I promise.

Model Progress #1

Well yesterday I decided to dedicate some time to make a character for future animation projects. I got a lot done at the moment but I'm going to have to slow down as I'll be back in school very soon. Still I'll update my progress on my blog when I get a chance.I wonder if you can guess right about what this character is going to be. I'll give you a hint, It's not a human. I'm sure it will get easier to fugure out in the near future.

Animations - Squirrel Jump, Crouch and Stand

Here are some more little animations

Animations - Squirrel Run

Well because the first half of the semester is finished and midterms are just about done, I guess I can finally post some of my animations, I think I'll start with the squirrel.

Here are his running animation.

UDK Fun

I was playing around with UDK and found some cool features with fog and landscape. One thing led to another and I made this small island with some pre-existing objects in the content browser. I think I did a good job.

The Deep Sea Janglers

This is just something I made when I decided to force work upon myself. The fish look just like anglers but their glowing antenna thing is more loopy and is shaped more like a jelly fish. The little baby jelly fish is called 'Jellstar' and it looks like she thinks the fake jelly fish is her mother... oh my, that's so sad.