Photoshop fun...

Okay, I was messing around in Photoshop, trying to create a smokey effect which I ended up making look a bit more like fire - I like it but it makes me think more of the Hunger Games and Witch and Wizard book covers.

I wanted to make the effect more like Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series covers but it doesn't really. So I think I'm going to lie and say I intended to make this image in honour of the upcoming Hunger Games film release; the face was just a happy accident but I'm going to say I intended to draw the face of the character, Catniss in the fire... yeah...

These are the relevant imagery to show you what I mean in this post of drivel, obviously they all have a quality and awesomeness my work could only dream of...

If not anything else I have at least given you a clue towards what kind of books I like to read...

 

Today's update - I'm beginning to see editable polygon points everywhere D:

The decision has been made - I'm changing my character for the 3D character model... I've been working on the fairy character, it was working but it is getting too complicated. I have learned how to model a character from this little project so now it is time to get the practice out of the way and build the proper model I will then rig... I intend this to happen within this next week so stay tuned...

Cheers

Trees make terrible baby sitters....

Okay so the task for our group in contextual studies was to create an animation in the style of Lotte Reiniger. The storyline was to be based loosely around a traditional Russian lullaby,

Baby, baby, rock-a-bye
On the edge you mustn't lie
Or the little grey wolf will come
And will nip you on the tum,
Tug you off into the wood
Underneath the willow-root.


This was what our group, consisting of Ingrid, Andrew, Leonie, Dan and myself, came up with =D

Pretty damn happy with how it went =D I'm stuck between Andrew's tree kidnaper and Ingrid's mushrooms as my favorite aspects... I'm proud of how well we work together as a team =D


Cheers

It rigged!!!! =D

Okay so here is the final rigged walk cycle of my Top Hat...

I'm quite happy with it =D
More later I can imagine...
cheers

On the first day of rigging-a-character-mas my true love gave to me...

... a shot gun with which I could kill myself...


This is too complicated to be trying to learn this early on a Monday morning Dx

But from what I have gathered the process of rigging is long and arduous but if you get it right - you'll reap the benefits when you finally get it all up and running...

This is the character I built in this session, we didn't have time to animate it today so sorry no moving pictures today x3

Anyway,

Cheers  =D

IT'S ST PATRICK'S DAY!!!!

Fill your boots man!

Onto completely unrelated stuff now -

After so much work on the 3D face we were given the task to create in Cinema 4D I thought I'd upload what I have so far on here...

Quite happy with how it's going - this whole modelling with points is simpler than I anticipated... Think I can perhaps work more on the shape of the jawline and such but for a first go I think it will suffice =D I believe we will be learning how to use symmetry and the weld tool in the next week which will mean this face can become whole rather than just half...

Anyway the real reason I wanted to post something today was so I could end the post in a different way...

so,

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3D character work

We also had some work in cinema 4D that I didn't manage to upload yesterday, we were learning how to build characters using elevations as blueprints - this is how mine has been going - I have about half of my character done... I need to learn how to mirror the object to make the other half then I can say I'm almost there...

Something needs to be done about the face perhaps but as it has been said, this may even just be a practice run before we actually get onto building the character.

So here goes...

It's SORT OF starting to look like my character... It's work in progress though...

Cheers