targets for this week!

had a meeting with Dan Dali yesterday which really helped me a lot and gave me some focus towards what i need to do if i want to see myself get through this last year at college. i have set my self a deadline for this Wednesday which is:

COMPLETE ASSETS FOR PIRATES PROJECT

And for next Tuesday i need to have done a lip sync test for pirate project using another rig such as the max rig which lewis will give me. but i will be lipsyncing an actual shot in the film so i can to test my skills again as its been a while since i last did lipsync.

i will also need to talk to jb this week to see what he wants me to do over this week and next week. for the dummy project

Dummy walk cycles

ok so here is 3 quick play blast tests of the dummy in a walk cycle. Ash did the female walk cycle and i did the male one. now the first one is the worst one that was my first attempt the second one is better and the 3rd one is a more sad depressed one which is what jb wanted. Now i wouldnt say im really happy with these walk cycles but i did the best of what i could with jb's rig which has its problems and restrictions. Now jb has improved the rig since the first test walk i did, but its still far from being really nice to use. for example the elbows always pop out when you move them around which is really anoying. the legs where on an ik handle i think and when moving them about you couldnt really do much with them or put them into many poses as it messed up the rest of the body position. Also the foot it self could not bend but jb has since fixed these issues that i brung up but i need to test his new rig to see what its like.

cola bottle for pirates project

this is the cola bottle so far. i still need to do the cap at the top and finish the bottom. but so far so good. will finish this today i hope =)

more pirate assets

Here is the high poly apple i modeled which i am really pleased about it looks really good i think. The other object is a stand that might be used for the fruit to sit in but that is not been fully decided yet i dont think.

pirate assets continued

This is a table stand that i also did. this will have items sitting on top or what ever else lewis has in mind for it.

Assets modeled for the pirate project

here are some of the assets i have modeled for lewis project. I wont be texturing these as they will be send to ashley for that. Im just helping the group get some assets done for the supermarket enviorment. as you can see i have modeled.

Pear & Banana
Police guard Grabber (JB has done the final one though)

and finally a chain that will be used to hang the signs in the supermarket. ash has modeled the signs and has them textured

some news

i know i havnt updated my blog in well over a month. But progress this term has been very strange. I have been focusing all my time on my dissertation as i want to make it the best i can possibly do. Both the dummy project and pirate one have taken a long back seat, and i really need to do some stuff for them both. i have modeled some 2 small objects for pirates project but nothing on the dummy one. But i hope to have my dissertation finished for this week, so that i can then focus my time on the other 2 projects. i will start animating for the dummy project very soon. we have the dummy rig all ready for it to be started. We have the final story boards done just need to get the dissertation finished.