Dog/Anubis Character…

Just thinkin/planning maybe… Old theme but maybe cool for a new piece of animation… seeing as I cant seem to get around to finishing the bunny thing…Scan10098

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Another catish drawing…

Not quite a cat but certainly catish… if you know what I mean…

Scan10094

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Drawing Cat Faces…

I drew these…

Cats

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Meeting Drawings…

From this afternoons meeting… with a rather blunt Mars Lumograph 2B

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Scan10092

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Modelling a Dr Seuss style standard lamp in Maya for 3D Printing…

Just as it says in the title… Modelling a Dr Seuss style standard lamp in Maya for 3D PrintingSeussLampRef

seusslamp

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Old Badge design…

Found this in a folder called “Saved From small laptop”… sometimes I wonder about my wonderfully informative filing system… Draw in pencil and then traced over in Flash… a long time ago…

inkedbadgegurl02

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Another Caustic Gif…

Here is another quick play with caustics projecting pretty patterns… This is as small as I could get 100 frames…

PrettySmall

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Caustic Gif…

24 frames of rotating glass doing the caustic thing… Somehow I know this just isn’t going to play on my tablet…

Caustic

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Maya Mental Ray and Caustics…

Yet another episode in the process of preparing a simple character for animation using Autodesk’s Maya, this week we look at lighting effects Mental Ray and Caustics…

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Ed Hooks Acting for animators workshop Animex 2014…

Wonderful workshop by Ed on Wednesday…

Last year I went to his workshop at animex and thought it was awesome, this year loads of updated materials and examples a lot more contemporary in context… very cool.

For those of you familiar with decrypting hieroglyphics here are my notes, spelling mistakes grammatical errors and incidentals intact… sorry…

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