Simon

That's some serious seasoning we got there.

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Toco toucan

From the reference drawings

To the rough silhouette

To the defined shape

And the final sketch. No idea why I didn’t post this earlier. I modled it later with Monsterclay, but I don’t have a photo of it. 

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The last three weeks for all of us CG students summed up in one picture :)

Last day of the CG module I, I just really wanted to post this :) We had a great time and it was a lot of fun, and maya was maya sometimes.

Anyway, I’ll leave you with some test shots of my work from the last few days - interiormagic. I will probably post something moving soonish.

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Intro of a short sequence I did in Maya. Same room as in the second last post :)

We had to use all assest we created so far and make a short movie. This time, we were allowed to use colour, tho I only used coloured light. 

I found the look on accident, its a combination of a super wide lense (165mm), all static meshes were selected for the green outlines and I animated the main light source to simply move forward.

The music is from the sound library at our school.

I might upload the full movie later, tho I’m not yet sure.

Ahh this is so much fun 

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Man pendulum physics are hard.

Still CGI course, this time the focus was on animation.

We had to have 3 objects interacting, and for me it was clear right away that I wanted to make a loop. 

The 2 balls have quite the different poly structure and I kinda had to hide that. Also theres some issues with the pendulums second swing that seems a bit off and also the physics of this would never work, but eh - who cares, it’s 3D, different rules apply here anyway (or can apply) :)

Again rendered in the viewport with some motion blur added in there as well (its so much fun to work with it actually)

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CGI course, yaaaaay. 

We’re working with Maya and Zbrush, and mostly in the viewport (so only basic material stuff and no rendering - but more experimenting, wuhh)

For this exercise, we had to model a room out of basic shapes (only streching was allowed) and generate a few screenshots in the viewport. We had to play with light and shadows and basically figure out how far we can go with just that. At some point I found the Xray setting and knew what look i wanted to go for :) 

The stacking of objects interacting with the light that falls through the window created some quite cool effects. The red thingys here and there are the lamps I didn’t hide to give some context whats going on (and to add more elements to the pictures)

It was a lot of fun doing this and I really want to make something in this style but in a bigger scale :) 

We later reused this room with other assets we created to make a short film. 

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Comparison of the live action acting from Alex Dannecker (Link soon) compared to our finalised animation. I retimed him a little bit (only a few frame adjustments) to make it easier to follow both motions.

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From the draft / sketches to the (unfinished) set to the light concept to the finalised shot :)

In cooperation with:

Alex Dannecker (Link will follow)

Elena Felici (https://elenafelici.tumblr.com)

Check them out and credit where it is due!

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I’m calling him Frank.

Walkcycle modeled rigged and animated in blender.