WIP - a work in progress modeling Tak

Stool Pop Quiz

This was a fun little pop quiz the teacher pulled on us. From scratch, we were to model and texture this object within a day.

Changing Pops Facial Expressions

Neutral Expression & Brows up

Brows down & Frown

Pucker & Smile

Got to love Zbrush sculpting!

First day on ZBrush

 

First time on Zbrush. What a hoot! 

It's not done, but I had fun doing it.

First Character Assignment: Pops

If you check out the Sky Avengers website, you'll see this character. He's a great project. We've learned to model, sculpt, texture, rig and animate this character.

3D Training Academy

November 23rd I started the 3D Training Academy's Sky Avengers program to learn how to become a computer animation modeler. Having a blast!

AM Class 3 is Finished!

Class 3 - Week 12: Above is the demo reel compiling all the "final" animations for the 3 classes. Below is the Class 3 title card I created for it.

I don't know what the deal is but for some darn reason the Class 3 title is blurry. No matter what I do, it always blurs when I import it into Quicktime. I've done the same method for Classes 1 & 2 and they both came out beautifully clear.

Sneakin' by . . .

Class 3 Week 7: Splined ("polished") my second animation of Viking Stewie sneaking up and jumping on sea monster to get to other side. Also included this week, I planned out the 3rd animation I will be working on next.

Monster Jump reblocked

Class 3 Week 6: Reblocked Viking Stewie's monster jump (not shown - better video can be seen in week 7).

How to Train Your Dragon

I am soooooooooo looking forward to this!

Another monster created in Spore

[Original video has been removed - "better" can be seen in Week 7]

Class 3 - Week 5: Blocking stage of my new monster jump animation.

"Final" Wall Jump

Class 3 - Week 4: This week I was to finalize the wall jump and present thumbnails and video reference for the next animation. Thumbnails below.

Got the Sword Included now!

[Original video has been removed - "better" can be seen in Week 4]

Class 3 Week 3: Reblocked the animation. Did extensive revisions on the physical actions and was able to include the sword in stone scene I wanted to include before. Wahoo!

How th'?

[Original video has been removed - "better" can be seen in Week 4]

Class 3 Week 2. This is the starting phase of the first animation of the term.

Unfortunately, as the plan mentions below, I didn't include the sword in stone shot (I ran out of frames). If you pause the beginning, you can see the sword in the distance. This next week I'm going to be doing some serious slicing and dicing to get the sword shot and fix the run and wall climb.

As a side note, I had a blast creating the environment and gate.

Class 3 - "Advanced Body Mechanics" Begins!

Class 3 - Week 1: After a week and a half break we are getting back to it.

Looking at the term, here's the overall plan: Viking Stewie sees sword in stone up on hill and goes through obstacles getting to it.

Animation 1 = Run and wall climb
• Viking Stewie sees sword in stone up on distant hill
• Runs and climbs over wall
• Lands on other side and recovers

Animation 2 = Running jump across river on moving target
• Viking Stewie sees river and monster
• Sneaks up near the river
• Runs and jumps on the back of the monster then to shore
• Runs into forest

Animation 3 = Forest scramble with final heavy sword pull
• Viking Stewie scrambles up hill through forest
• Goes to sword in stone
• Pulls it out of stone (heavy pull)
• Lifts in victory