Animation Assignment

Here is my acting shot which I did for my NCCA Animation assignment. I handed this in before Christmas, but I forgot to post it up here. Hope you had a good Christmas.

To view my shot, click on the link below.

https://vimeo.com/82545183

(This is just an image, click on the Vimeo link to view the video there.)

NCCA Masterclass Blocking

Hello there!

Its been a little while since my last post. Today I've got my two blocked animations for my NCCA Masterclass animation assignment. For this assignment I have to come up with a basic scenario, and animate Malcolm in the scenario twice, showcasing a different emotion for each one. I've started splining one of them, and its proving to be really hard to get the smooth and weighty feeling of feature animations. Anyways, here they are.

Painting Practice

This is my rendition of the amazing Reza-ilyasa's 'kecoa ngaso', as found here on Deviantart (http://reza-ilyasa.deviantart.com/art/kecoa-ngaso-202238116). This is not an original, I repeat, this is not an original. I copied this piece of concept art to start getting (back) into painting. Enjoy!

Life Drawing

Life drawing comes as a welcome break after wrestling with a rig today! I've been doing a couple of animation tests for Cindy, and she isn't deforming too well. Mirroring pose space deformers isn't working on her (arrrghhhh!), so I'm doing some stuff with corrective blendshapes for the hips and shoulders, with mixed results. Anyway, I will post a walk cycle up soon. Stay tuned!  

Wolfdog Smooth

https://vimeo.com/79885259

And... here's the smoothed version. As ever, crit and comments welcome. Up next will be some animation of Cindy, my very own first rig. Until then!

Vimeo: A Blocking Pass

This is my Vimeo account, and I've just uploaded a new video. Its my blocking for an animation formative, which was informally set as part of my undergraduate degree course. Enjoy and leave me crit! The smoothed version will be coming soon.

https://vimeo.com/79566539

First Rig! Cindy 'Teaser'

My first rig, which I've been working on since the summer. Once I've got a working version, I'm going to animate her (of course!) and post that up here as well. 

Let me know what you think. Until next time!

Concept Model - Tenebris

Early concept model

This is a quick and dirty concept model/render of the protagonist of my final major project. He is called Tenebris, and I want him to be one cool as hell badass mother****er!

Digital Painting Practice

Avatar Painting

This is a digital painting I did in about 2/3 hours. I want to get good at painting, so this is practice.

Let me know what you think I should work on!

Life Drawing

Life Drawing

Here is some life drawing which I did last week.

First Post! Renders

First post = renders (of all things!). Not my favourite thing in the CG world, but knowing a bit about this technical process gives you the potential to be so much more creative.

First render: shader set up, linear workflow.

Incrementation: secondary colour, final gathering, more shaders, zDepth.

Here are two renders (from Maya, using mentalRay) that I did for fun/ to get back into rendering. I'm using a linear workflow, and I've been experimenting with render passes, and rebuilding them in Nuke. The rebuilding is not as easy as I thought, at least when trying to build back my beauty. Note: these are not comped, they are straight out of Maya. I've worked zDepth into the second render.

Enjoy!