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.

Things from the TV over the summer - influences

Pop tarts, not only a great snack but they have some pretty good ads too. I liked this one that i saw over the summer. I was interested in what they did to get the houses to 'pop' into bright colourful houses. I will look into this further on the tinternet.



I have just come back from spending two months with three little kids, this show Backyardagins was on EVERYDAY. I actually liked the simplicity of this, the characters look like they are basic shapes which can be done in cinema 4d. I added this clip to the blog as i think it helps for when i'm dong my characters. To help with shapes and also with the movements of them. I think i prefer doing things aimed at kids as i like the colours and simple storys/characters, I do tend to doodle kiddy like characters so think thats something i might look further into for the future.



I also saw a few wrigleys gum ads, i love the charactes in these commercials - i have added one below but there are ALOT more on Youtube.



On Teletoon there quite a few cartoons that i hadnt seen before on which i watched over the summer. One being called Bobs Burgers, i thought it was funny, the characters i wasnt too fond of but the story itself was funny and made me forget about the actual drawings.



This car ad i thought was a really good example of morphing. It looks really neat, and hopefully at some point this year i can look more into morphing big items (such as real cars!)



This is an ad for Tootsie Pop, i liked this as i have a tortoise as one of my characters and thought this may have with reference when i come to make my character.

Not happy with you Vancouver!

For those of you still looking at this over the summer, i am not happy with this place right now.

Vancouver has an animation festival called Siggraph and of course they are doing their confrences and shows the days i'm away, Yes that is right, the day i go away it startes and the day i come back it finishes!!!

For those of you interested in reading more on it or looking at the galleries you can see it all at:

http://www.siggraph.org

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Had to post this as its just made my day :D x


and another one :D