Sunday, 19 September 2010

11 Second Club (September 2010)

After doing last months competition, I decided to start using Maya again. I stopped using it because i found it hard to use Cinema 4D at the same time, as I kept getting all the controls mixed up when I was switching between the software. During the last competition I had to model, rig, texture and animate the characters, as well as doing the environment. The 11 Second Club website provides rigs that you download and then that gives you a month to animate. Unfortunately they don't have any Cinema 4D rigs so that's why I've started using Maya. I have no idea how to rig a character in Maya so that's something I'll have to learn when I go back to college (tomorrow). I was hoping to  finish this months competition before tomorrow as I didnt want to be in the middle of an animation while starting a new course. I doubt I'll get it finished today but I'm going to try and get most of it done. So far I have animated the main movements for the first character. Here's some pictures of the viewport.





This is the model of the house I am using. I didn't add too much detail as most of it wont be shown in the animation. 


I just duplicated the house for the background because I don't have much time left before the deadline. I started 2 weeks late so I've had to rush a lot of the environment. I'm planning on using a lot of depth of field behind the characters so hopefully I'll get away with using identical houses in the background:)

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

11 SECOND CLUB (AUGUST 2010)

I finally finished my animation for 11 Second Club's August competition! :D
I'm not completely happy with the way it turned out because I had to rush a lot of the rigging and the morphs for the mouths, so a lot of it looks a bit weird and unfinished. Here's some screens of the finished animation. My internets really slow at the minute so I can't upload the video but I'll paste a link when I put it up. 

Thursday, 12 August 2010

ODD STUFF

I found a couple of things that I started working on but then forgot about so I've put them up and hopefully I'll finish them one day :)








I can't actually remember why I drew this - I think it was possibly for final show. I'm not even sure if it is finished or not but I might do something with it someday.








This is the Alien and his Robot. I drew this because I was planning on modeling a character in Cinema 4D but I think I just forgot about it and did something else instead:)

When I get some time I'll definitely try and finish these.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

11 SECOND CLUB (AUGUST 2010)

Did some really fast modeling today and got the Grandson and Granny characters finished! Still have to rig them though - oh no! :(


: )

Monday, 9 August 2010

11 SECOND CLUB (AUGUST 2010)

Not much of an update - I started again with the head and added some hair :)


11 SECOND CLUB (AUGUST 2010)

Here I've started modeling the head. I'm not sure if I like the way it's looking, but I'll keep modeling it and see how it turns out.

C4D CAFE SWISS ARMY KNIFE CHALLENGE

The competitions finished and I came 3rd. I enjoyed the challenge and I'm going to focus on character animation for a while now, as I haven't done much lately :)