Friday 28th.....

Today hasn't been very successful in getting work on my character done.

I have looked at the university courses and starting filling in the UCAS forms. Northumberia has a few good courses and there is one at Teesside too.

This weekend will be working on my environment and my character. Making him do the walk cycle and hopefully I can get that somewhat finished by Sunday so that next week is just doing the actual 15 second walk cycle and printing off all my documents (I hope I haven't just jinxed myself there).

Enjoy your weekends everyone!!

Squeggs Leg ooo la la

I am happy with the shapes of the legs now, kind of like karate style pants. I am not worrying about the texturing at the moment for the clothes for the line test.

But yes i am happy with this shape.

I also was going to make his hands rounder but then thought i like how they arent perfectly round as it adds to his character and i like them like this :D

Old Cartoons

This is a video i found while searching Youtube for animations. Its a bit jumpy as its very old and even though there is no sound its still funny.



This is another video that was interesting with different clips of old cartoons. Is good to see the movement of the characters and the simplicity of the frames.

Squegg

As mentioned in the other pose my brain is all over the place is getting things sorted for hand in. So of course i decide to make things difficult for myself and tried out a 3d squegg. I tried different nurbs to see the outcome and the results arreeee.....

I actually kind of like the first one, he looks like a bobble head but i don't know how that would be animated though, unless it just turns and slides along the floor and squegg sways...really way to late in the game to be changing things but like i said i obviously like to challenge myself!!!

Scenery

For my animation i was originally going to do my character walking down the street with things happening along the way but it seems a few people are using streets as their scene..or well at least two :/ So i have decided to make the animation take place inside of a house. Squeggs House.

So far i have only worked on the bathroom...I also attempted to do Squegg in 3D. Yes my brain is doing what it usually does, waits till few days before hand in and wants to change the whole idea! Really need to block the 'creative' side and tell it to shhh and stick to the original plan!!!

I need to do the lighting from the window and finish off the bathroom sinks/mirrors. I also need to add a hallway and maybe some drawers or something and other rooms/items for the house. :D Oh joy

squegg dance

Here is a few of squeggs dancing...

Hello to the second year. I think i have been ill for the most part of this course so here's my first log into the blogs!!

For our project for the second year i am doing an animation about a squid egg, his name is Squegg. Lovely chap that he is. Here are my line tests for the animation (so far....)



This video is of when squeggs leg falls off.



This video is of the walk cycle.



This is from when the leg falls out and yolk pours out. It looks better on dragon then it does on photoshop. I might print off the images and do them on dragon so it looks smoother and plus the drop needs to be bigger.