söndag 24 februari 2013

CG Cartoon Character

In this project I'll create a character and make an advanced cartoonish rig for him.
Im also thinking of making a short in the future, and it would be really nice if this character could be a part of it. 


Some rough sketches.
Have been following along one of dt's rigging tutorial for like two weeks..
Right now I don't have so much time to work on this project because of school , even though I get off my bed at 7pm every morning so i get like 3 more hours to spend on this project. (How getting up from bed and stay sharp is possible I think heavily depends on my Magic Morning Formula which is coffe and porridge.. Someone once told me that the ancient gladiators ate porridge all the time and that was why Spartacus, Russle Crowe and all the other gladiators where so fit.
I bet the guys in 300 also loved thier porridge) ....However school isn't all bad, the math and the course about "how computer graphics works" is awesome and has really increased my understanding of the rendering pipeline and all the 3d applications..

Here is my rig,  the mesh is provided by digital-tutors, (will do some more rigging before I start with my own character). The rig got an IK/FK armSwitch and lot of other fancy stuff!
I have also been doing some mel scripting. Like a renaming tool, place joints on vertex tool and some scripts that creates different curve shapes.

Okey.. I'm done skinning my character. The rig is complete!:)


one of my other rigs:

                                             I made the concept, the model and the rig. 

söndag 3 februari 2013

Transformer vfx






Some earlier animation tests.



The rigging is done. 
Nothing complicated as Im still a beginner. 
(Will however push my rigging skills in my next project!)
Now it's time to animate! (Stoked!)

The spider model. next I'll make a proxy and rig it.
(I just swaped my curves from stepped to spline, thats why the wierd animations. 
But it's just for previs. )
(Made some quick thumbnails and then i picked the sillhoutte that I liked and made a quick concept.)