it'll all be over soon...

I’ve been working hard day and night, all night even to get everything done that I want to for the film. I ran into some major problems with Ncloth and trying to resolve those within the week sometime. Also I’ve been playing around with Zbrush a lot and will probably have a little more detail in the outfit than even I expected in the early progress. I found the program really easy to use so it would be nice to have something integrated from that.

This is by no means the cropping for the shot, I’m still being a little reserved about what I’m showing but here’s a test render of the character in the scene, she’s not fully smoothed, aside from her face and body.

set progress

Some advice to any future computer animators that possibly stumble upon this blog, if you’re planning your animation project … don’t use a forest as your setting. I’m happy with how it looks rendered like this I’ll of course composite it quite a bit, but I like the look of what’s coming along.

character reveal

Since weeklies started I decided to reveal a bit of the character, this is with a photoshopped skin texture the final will have a sub surface skin, I just haven’t been focusing on the fine details just yet. Everyone in my program has named their character so I came up with “Hallie” after playing with the word “Valhalla”

laying out the scene

This weekend I will be focusing on painting weights, corrective blends and all the tedious work that applies to the character, in my free time, whatever that is I have been just setting up the main location scene for the short. Below are some preliminary sketches and then some early 3d layouts with shapes for placeholders. It’s no where near the look I want, but I am happy with where things are heading.

Nothing to show right now

I know it's been a very long time since I posted something, but I promise when I have something to show I will, right now I'm rigging and working on a part of the short that isn't all that interesting to look at.

basics

I'm still working on one side of the head, but I duplicated the side and scaled into negative to see what it'd look like and I'm pleased .... with some of it. This is a total of 9pm to 5am's worth of work.

final project, sneak peek