Category Archives: Documentation of activities

In the style of… Character Modelling…

A new set of tutorials to help answer a brief that is situated around the idea of rebooting an old children’s TV programme in the style of a more contemporaneous one… The first 2 sets of tutorials cover basic character … Continue reading

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File Transfer Bunny…

What I drew whilst waiting for files to transfer…

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Lip sync stage 2…

You’ve seen the sketches and you’ve seen the model… now here is the animation…   [vimeo vimeo.com/53854131]

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Considering Lesson 1 of the next project I have to teach…

I want to do a session that introduces the possibilities of morph targets or blend shapes if you are in Maya, so I was thinking of a little talking head exercise… Sketch number one…

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My Last word on The Steam Punk Chess Robot…

The Final re-render of the animation that I did in making the tutorials for this project, I raised the central Omni light a little to fix those pesky shadows and extended its far attenuation field so that its dimming light just … Continue reading

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Beasty with Mondrian Antlers Modelled…

Another Layer of tweaking and we have this… which is ready for paint I think…  

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Modelling that thing that I drew earlier…

This is what Sundays are for:)

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Another Beastie…

Ah hah… Bigger shoulders…

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Faces…

Quickly looking at the way Doug Tennapel constructs faces, just a 2 minute sketch, the savage cheekbones really attracted me, that and the awesome brush work… nice. These faces are based on ones from “Cardboard” Published by Scholastic Graphix.

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Steamed Again with the light in the wrong place…

This is the render from the animation done in the process of making the steam punk chess robot week 6 tutorials.. However I need to render this one again with the light slightly higher as aggressive arm shadows look really … Continue reading

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