Hello ladies and germs!

Friday again and I've had a very productive week indeed sir!

I completely rigged my character in 3 days!!!! which is better than the like, 3 months it took me last year! I got two perfectly functioning footrolls (whereas last year I got zero after several tries!) and I'm currently on the weight painting, which is a bit of a nightmare but nothing my awesome skills can't handle! See for yourself and recoil in bewildered jealousy at my wonderful crocodile man!


Here's the footroll going one way...

...and the other! Smooth!

Fangs from the back, just to show off his bones and controllers!

And from the front, yeah!

Yeah! Hands up if your a well-rigged beast!

Crocotastical!

I've put Fangs in sketch and toon and here's the mega tasty results!

Check out the piercings and stuff, he's one badass croco-man! The eyes are projected on and the face and cheeks took me longer to make than it took to build up the courage to watch a period drama!

Here's his feets, the trainrs are cannt cool like, check the laces and colours, I want some of these!

His hair is textured and awesome too, I like that it looks like a mohawk!

The belt buckle speaks the truth! I'll probably change it later on, but I like to blow my own trumpet!

And here's a full body shot, sexay!

Look at the detail in the teeth and gums! I'm a mouth master!

And this is his croc and crossbones tattoo, how very cool is that?!

Thas week!

I've been storming along with my model this week, after several annoying bits concerning lips and heads I'm finally happy with my Fangs dude, I'm doing him in sketch and toon to give a cartoony look and I've got some simple colours and textures applied for some tests and rigging, ugh, rigging! I'm going for a panini now, pictures will follow some breakfast!

Reflection!

This week I finished my infernal research once and for all! (until next project...) and I got an awesome start on my 3D model, having done my storyboards and script in the summer I can afford to spend more time on getting him just right! Saying that I will go back and revise them at one point, I haven't read my script for a while so for all I know it might be shit! Not that there's much dialogue but the little there is might not flow as well as when I wrote it after the 2 months of obliterating my brain cells that was my summer! I'm confident I don't need to change my storyboards too much, they are cooler than a penguin in a fridge!

As I have the whaling song from Futurama in my head I will sign off in the appropriate manner;

We're whalers on the moon,

we're whalers on the moon,

but there are no whales

so we tell tall tales

and sing a whaling tuuuuune!

Getting there with my 3D model!

Here's my progress with my 3D crocodile so far!
I have a few tweaks to make, like making his body seem more like an actual body and not a machine and getting his eyes right, I'm pretty pleased with myself with it so far though, I've managed to keep it really close to the original drawings despite the fact I couldn't be bothered to line up the images and made it completely freestyle!



I'm pretty pleased with his shoes and the pants going over the tops, just look at those laces, pure class!



I sculpted his awesome hair and didn't even ruin it while welding him together, this is the longest I've spent on something without messing it up in some way!



Here he is from the front, just look at that tongue, he has one of those dangly things at the back of his mouth too, I'm buzzing at how good that looks, check it out, though from this angle it looks more like a small todger!

Drawingggs!

Here's a big dump of images I've been working on, some may be a little more finished than others, but I hope you'll agree they all look awesome!

The first is My protagonist, Fangs, I was playing about creating some poses for him and these two involve him going mental, also very sad, like he's dropped an icecream or something!


These drawings show fangs attempting to solve a rubix cube, though it looks a little like he's having a tommy tank! :/ He's also been shat upon by a bird while sunbathing, so he's a little peeved!

Here's the girl of Fang's dreams, and how very lush is she?!

And here's Supa Bird, one of the annoying birdies that deprive Fangs of his much needed kip!

...And Sylvester, Supa Bird's dopey cousin, quite why he's an owl is something I'm not sure about, I just really like drawing owls! And snails, might have to sneak one in somewhere!

Researchhh!

I've done roughly twenty tons of research this week, I've looked at zillions of 3D animations and I'm so nice I'm going to show you my favourites out of my plethora! Here's the first, it's called bath time and I very much enjoy the simple style and humour of this and I like the look of the doggy!
The next is called Defective robot and it's also rather grand, it's also done in a simple style that works well and the robots having a scuffle is a funny thing to behold!
Now let's look at RGB/XYZ by David O'reilly, I love this simply because of the crapness of it, that and it reminds me of old glitchy playstation games! It's also really funny and has some truly glorious swearing in it!

RGB XYZ - Part 1 from David OReilly on Vimeo.

This next animation, RAM, isn't the best looking 3D animation out there but it's really clever and has a neat twist at the end, most of the graphics are a bit crap but you can see a lot of attention has been given to the characters!

Fallen is another I looked at, it's really awesometastic and has a great style to it, the texturing and light effects are also top notch and I enjoy the little rock dude's face as he whirls around having happy happy joy times!

Fallen from Sascha Geddert on Vimeo.

BLOGGG!

I forgot how to use this, it's been a while!

After Caning drawings for a few days I totally didn't do much research or development, so I need to remember to spread my workload, rather than focus on one aspect!

My dudes are looking pretty good though, check out Fangs, the protagonist of my merry animated caper!

He gets woken up by birds all the time and I reckon he looks canny good, compared to the rubbishy guy I first drew!