It is somehow amazing how many mistakes you can make. It feels very much like if I was working to create problems that I can solve later on. There is a huge number of render and lighting inconsistency even I only have 15 scenes rendered so far, not even mentioning animation issues, etc. I am [...]
This is only ruff cut, ruff timing, ruff animation blocking. Probably only the cut of the guy standing up is final animation. I have more scenes blocked out however, those are not connected to this sequence. Will upload them later. Pseudo-final render-still / semi-finished lighting
This is a character turnaround anf an early sketch.
I went to London this weekend to have an interview for the Royal College of Art’s animation course. I did not have time for sightseeing unfortunately, but the Rodchenko & Popova exhibition was an unmissable one. I am supposed to run on low-budget nowadays, but I had to buy a copy of Hogarth’s revised and [...]
Rigging. I’m pretty happy with my rig, it can do all I need, it only misses the auto-animate button. I have come up with a way to properly rig the eyes, including the surrounding skin (that moves with the eye naturally). I was struggling with it a lot, as the whole system kept conflicting with [...]
Have you ever had the Life Drawing Rage? Apparently it is a symptom of the 3rd Year Syndrome.
Friday’s life drawing session was a special one. I was the only one to turn up so I had a private model. How cool is that? Not even mentioning the last.fm jazz shuffle I put on in the background. Reward of the last man standing. Life drawing used to mean a single pose for 3-4 [...]
I started systematically draining the university’s resources, starting with the whiteboard pens. Herb must be glad about it.