Still here. Just very busy..

16 days! I can't believe it's been so long since I last did a blog post. Uni has been crazy lately and I've barely found enough time to leave the flat, never mind write up a blog post. Anyway, here's a quick blog post to get me back into the swing of things and keep you updated on my project and progress.

I've been trying to get all of my characters modelled, textured and rigged, ready to animated (which I should have been doing for a couple of weeks now). So you can imagine how panicked things have been, not to mention how stressed out everyone on our course has been. Once again, the lack of teaching in the modelling, texturing and especially rigging throughout the first two years has really hindered the progress I've been making but as usual I've just got on with it. The modelling and texturing didn't come as too much of a problem as I've been drawing for years and what skills I have in painting have been pretty easily transferable to 3DS Max. The main thing that has put me behind has to be the rigging element of the project. I had no idea when I started rigging how difficult and precise everything had to be, and in particular how much of a problem a high-poly model would be to rig.

This took me a couple of weeks to really get my head around but when I finally managed it, I started to make some progress. Now I have two and a half out of three characters modelled and one of those fully rigged. I plan to get the third character's modelling finished and the second character rigged tomorrow. The first character I finished is now also finally in the scene :) which is great. Finally I can see it all coming together. So anyway, here's the character in the scene. Not an amazing render but I'm happy with it all the same and I'll make sure I get a few others uploaded soon.

Top Ten Films and and character modelling update

So I said that I'd give you guys my top 10 films of all time about three days ago. I know you probably weren't on the edges of your seats but I didn't have any time over the last few days to do a blog. Anyway, here they are and then I can finally get onto some real animation talk:

10. Karate Kid



9. Star Wars Original Trilogy



8. Kill Bill Vol. 1/2



7. Dark Knight



6. Role Models



5. Princess and the Frog



4. Aladdin



3. X-Men 1/2



2. Shrek 1/2



1. Toy Story Trilogy



And there's another one that has only recently (since I originally wrote this list) shot towards the top of my list would be Disney's latest, and one of their greatest films, Tangled. So it deserves a special mention here :)




And so now I can finally get to some of my own work, diverging from all of this much more professional work above.

I've been spending a lot of time finishing up characters for rigging them (which I started today).

Here are some renders of the waitress and the main male character for my animation.



And...



So basically that's how much I've done in regard to that project and my aniamtion project is also coming along pretty well, although I don't have any up-to-date renders. Again, when I get next get chance to update this blog on my project I'll be back.