Monday, 26 April 2010

An (overdue) update!

I certainly have been a busy wee bee the past few weeks, and my blog is becoming rather neglected, which shall be rectified with the sweeping vengence of a million cake bakers in heat!
After learning the basics of cinema 4D rigging on thursday I've had a bit of a faff about with moving the legs, also I've had a bit of a play on body paint and produced some fairly mediocre results which will improve when I get a practice on!




These are the eyes I made (above) I created a sphere, added a texture of an iris and pupil to it and set the colour of the sphere to white, while adding some cheeky specular for s nice eye sheen! I then made a circle spline and made it a target for the eyes to follow, I've akso got a rendered pic to show you the end result!


You can see my wonderful rigs above, today I'm doing more work on rigging, legs today, spine and arms spread nicely through the week, As progress goes I'm more confident about finishing this project without any hand in day woes than I've been so far, I've adopted a new strategy, get all the boring written work beasted through then that leaves more time to play with the computers and draw nice pictures!
The body paint screen shots I shall upload when I figure out why my memory stick hates me!
So all in all I reckon I'll be okay this week, the only thing I'm worried about is the pose to pose eyes we did on thursday which I had several problems with, Smithers couldn't help so I reckon I'll go through that at home and try from scratch, I was good with the 3D eyes that follow a target, yeah, they were cool!
Saw how to train your dragon yesterday, I was astounded by the visuals and really liked the story and toothless has to be my pet!