Recursiveworlds

And I drew a Bear…

Posted on April 15, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Just what it says… doodle really, but it was on my desk.., near the scanner…

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Research Poster…

Posted on April 15, 2013 by recursiveworlds

From last years in school research day, posters can be a handy way of summing up the projects you have been pursuing and where you have got too with them, here is the research poster I produced for the project at the Centre for Life in Newcastle…

I have had to drop the resolution a bit to be web-able as the original was an A0 print…

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Bunny does Babbitt…

Posted on April 12, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Testing skin deformation by loading the Art Babbitt angry walk cycle onto the bunny character… if it can handle being pushed around like this it can handle most things… ish, actually it doesn’t look at arms over head and stuff like that but its an OK starting place…

[vimeo vimeo.com/63906579]

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Bunny skin test pre-weighting…

Posted on April 12, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Bones and skin but not yet weighted, I will try to sort that out later today.

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Reaction, blinking… dropping the ball…

Posted on March 7, 2013 by recursiveworlds

From this weeks session on action and reaction, thinking about blinking…

[vimeo vimeo.com/61251093]

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Bunny Wire

Posted on March 1, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Just in case you were wondering here the mesh with one iteration of smoothing on it…

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The bunny got painted…

Posted on March 1, 2013 by recursiveworlds

After a little bit of playing about… I think I’m fairly happy with this now, I was trying to keep some of the character of the original pencil drawings preserved through the texturing process, I’ve been using sampled elements of the original drawings as stencils in Mudbox as well as sticking to a colour pallet drawn from those pencil sketches [no pun intended…]

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Bunny UV’s

Posted on February 22, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Ready to paint…

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Ed Hooks at Animex…

Posted on February 22, 2013 by recursiveworlds

Wow!.. had an amazing day at Ed Hooks “Acting for Animators” Masterclass At the Animex animation festival at Teesside University. The Animex talks were really interesting, informative and engaging too, David Au Storyboard Artist/Assistant Director Rough Draft Studios, Murray Barber VFX Supervisor, The Mill and Rob Dressel Layout Supervisor, Walt Disney Animation Studios were all great speakers that made me feel great about loving animation both as an art form and as a creative pursuit.

For those who might be interested here are the notes I took in Ed Hooks Class [please ignore spelling mistakes missing words and random scribbles]