Weekly Post - Week 3

Here's week 3. Sorry its late, not had time to post as I've been moving my PC home for easter!

Animation of the week...

Probably the animation Im most proud of so far. I played with the Max rig some more, after messing with some initial poses I decided to make him jump of the building that I showed last week. Learnt a lot whilst doing it, especially about the IK/FK snap, and changing it mid animation. On top of that though, brilliant fun.

Jump Animation

Model of the week...

Gah! Nothing this week, just not really modelled anything that's even half finished. I'll make up with it next week by modelling 2 things!

Photo of the week...

A portrait this week! I took it whilst filming an action scene in woodland. I really like the lines in the picture, plus the small pile of twigs (which was actually a bivouac) add a bit of character.

Inspiration of the week...

Tim showed this in a presentation he did for University. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Dgzi7j5Q8 It was brilliant! The simple style works so well, I had never heard of them before, which I'm kind of gutted about now. It shows how humour and character can be added without the need of dialogue, but with just movement and random grunts & laughs. Brilliant stuff.

Weekly Post - Week 2

Here's week 2!

Animation of the week...
Did some lip syncing in University, I used the Max rig from 11 second club to animate this scene from One who flew over the cuckoo's nest. My first lip sync, was fun to do!

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Jack Nicholson Lip Sync Animation

Model of the week...

I made this environment for a chase animation. I revisited it this week and added a few details. Still a work in progress, but its what I've got to show this week! I'll be doing some animation with the Max rig using this environment hopefully.

Photo of the week...

I took this photo whilst in my parents allotment. The sky looked pretty awesome so I had to take some pictures. The problem being earlier that day I started chopping down the tree in the bottom of the picture, so sadly it looks a tad sparse!

Would be a nice print though I think, I may look into panoramic photo's soon.






Inspiration of the week...
I watched this a while ago, but I've revisited it recently.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAxi38FE8xo
I love the animation on this, especially how the robot's seem so light and fast. Brilliant stuff, I'm planning on doing animations like this in the future, just a lot more practice first! Also I don't think my robots will get tired.