Animation to Breathe Fire to

Mechanical Modeling

2010-05-14T22:45:00.000-07:00

How Machines Work has aired almost all the episodes I worked on so I can now share my work from that project. I must say I'm very excited about it. This post is clips of all the modeling I did. I suspect I'll get the rest of my texturing renders early next week which means those will get posted mid next week. I feel all accomplished and stuff.

Breakdown:

shots 1 and 2: Modeled Train
shot 3: Modeled Buildings, Quarry and Ground
shots 4 and 5: Modeled Fire Truck
shots 6 and 7: Modeled Exterior and Interior of Streetcar as well as T Posts
shot 8: Modeled Rapier heads

April progress

2010-04-26T21:57:00.000-07:00

I've been fiddling with her some more. It occurred to me that her face was hideous and needed help. I was already working on it when a nice fellow gave me some good advice on how to fix it even more. I was looking at Neera from Planet 51 to get idea on how to girl my troll up a bit. I think she's a pretty nifty reference for it since Neera's all alien but still super cute.

I've only got one render for today. I really only changed the Troll's face. I should get to UVs some time soon. I may be procrastinating a little bit on that.

Celina some more

2010-03-24T20:25:00.000-07:00

Working on pages for a prettier throwaway. It's the character I designed to learn flash with.

Apartment Troll progress

2010-03-22T20:00:00.000-07:00

I'm all excited. She's starting to come together. She's got clothes, and hair, and jewellery, and a basic light setup, and some simple phong and anisitropic shaders on her, and everything. There's still some smallish details to add in like a couple hair doo-dads and her battle skirt still needs to look like it got mauled by a bedazzler. Other than that she's just about ready for UVs. I'll probably fidget with her clothing colours some more, but her skin, hair and eye colours will stay relatively the same with only minor tweaking.

On to the picture overload! Renders with smoothing turned on:

Screencaps of meshflow with Smoothing turned off, although it looks like I deleted a couple smooth nodes when blowing away history. Those will be fixed later this week.

That's a super shiny phong on her. For some reason the surface shader I used on her was showing up striped in my viewport.

continued progress

2010-03-17T22:01:00.000-07:00

Another couple renders of today's progress for the apartment troll. Now she has fingers and a rounder head and significantly less bulgy eyes, and more teeth and a tongue, and a bit of hair, and more bony bits.

Teaser

2010-03-17T00:54:00.000-07:00

Zed Oh Em Gee! Nekkid House Troll! I was working on her some more over the weekend and last night. I threw a couple simple shaders on her to get an idea of colours. I think her hair will need to be red and orange, and that she will need to be speckled as well. She's got toes too. I'm a bit excited about her toes.

Cleans and Sketches Now and Then

2010-03-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

So I totally found a pink glitter gel pen in my jar of miscellaneous pens on Monday which also happened to be a fantastically mild day. Ever since I've been drawing cute girls in swimsuits with the glitter pen which unfortunately died while I was waiting for lagtacular extra geometry to load into my scene files at my internship today.

Long story short I got a couple doodles I want to clean out of it and one rough that I kind of liked.

I've also been cleaning up some of my sketches in ToonBoom. They're both self portraits since I don't draw myself very often and wanted a new drawing self portrait for avatar purposes. The first came out of drawing people I used to know in high school as background characters for No Pants are Tied to My Heart and the second came out of taking that face shape and making it look a little more like I do now.

Ta-da!

Also I totally had the chelsea with blond bangs and purple fuzzy bits at least two years before Yu-Gi-Oh came out. Just for the record.

By the Rapids

2010-02-19T01:21:00.000-08:00

A few scenes from episode 7 of season 1 of By the Rapids. I miss working on BTR. It was totally boss. I rigged Hazel and Derek for the show, and in my scenes for this episode I ended up having to re-rig their slidey faces since some of the rigs were from when we started and hadn't figured out slidey faces yet.

By the Rapids is property of Big Soul Productions.

More drawings

2010-02-19T01:15:00.000-08:00

I apparently forgot to post these here which is somewhat silly of me. These are some drawings that cracked me up. They're of the kids that I work with.

Also some No Pants are Tied to My Heart love since I also neglected to post these when I posted Renee a while ago.

Martin

Liz and Gabe

Frankie and Feydra

Cut-out makes me happy

2010-02-18T22:09:00.000-08:00

It's true. I've put the apartment troll on the back burner to take up the latest version of Flash. I'm declaring my lip sync exercise somewhat of a success for now since I'm now comfortable with Flash.

Results as it were:

The track is from Mean Girls. I grabbed something from a movie I hadn't seen to avoid copying the acting.

Also, some "production" sketches of miss Celina as I was sussing out how she would look.

Some hand poses...

And her mouth poses...

As always all her roughs were done in ballpoint pen 'cause I'm just that Ah-some!

Apartment Troll: January's progress

2010-02-01T15:44:00.000-08:00

Her hands and feet are still low res, but I'm getting there. Her body is almost all done, and the next exciting step will be to connect all the parts of her face. I'm excited about it. At this point I'm about 20 hours in.

and a link to the first post on her to get an idea of how far I've come and where I'm heading: December's progress

Some Drawings

2010-01-16T19:27:00.000-08:00

A few quick colours on some drawings I liked. As with everything of late these are all drawn with ink then coloured digitally.

Renee Gill, the main antagonist from No Pants are Tied to My Heart. I think she's my favourite right now.

Miss B. One of my favourite people in the world to draw.

Victoria

2009-12-18T14:43:00.000-08:00

I'm not terribly happy with the boarding or sound on this. I am happy with how her face rig turned out. The sticky lips kind of killed my ability to edit blend shapes, but it was definately worth it.

Apartment Troll in progress

2009-12-18T14:13:00.000-08:00

hurray! I've been modeling my apartment troll whenever I have a bit of spare time. She's about 16 hours in. I blocked out the basic shapes/proportions first and have been then combining and cleaning up her mesh.

And some ideas of her design so you can see where I'm heading with this.

Throwaway smattering

2009-11-20T21:33:00.000-08:00

More Recent Animation and Drawings

2009-03-27T07:43:00.000-07:00

rotation and rigged model for my indy

Chewing Test for my Indy

A more recent CG animation

Aviation

2009-03-07T07:52:00.000-08:00

My final project from last year. This took second place in its category for the Teletoon Scholarship Awards this past September. School is very proud, but having had more experience in animating all of the overanimation grinds on me. One has to start somewhere, so here is my start.