I hate 2D for some reason, it may be that I just criticise myself too much and don’t put in the time to learn anything. But I want to put myself out there and give myself the chance to improve myself.
For this midday blog post I am talking about my 2D animation assignment. We are required to make a 20 second animation using symbols in flash. I have finally completed the fully rigged turnaround of Chicken Jake.
So I have used UDK for almost 10 weeks now and I have learnt one thing very clearly from the experience – SAVE!!
It is a very unstable engine with crashes happening all the time and sometimes you can’t even undo things and even then it still crashes some more. Along with some lighting issues I had with InterpActors the rest has been relatively stable but, until now but first let’s have a look at some of the things I have worked on.
I found the textures and meshes that come with UDK limiting and not suited to my purposes so I went off and got some more but after speaking with my tutor I may have to cut back on them a bit… Like all of them. But so far they are really cool and help give me the look that I want.
Hey all it sure has been a long time!
I got into the university I wanted to but with the fast tracked course it has been hard but I am coping with it.
One of my latest projects was to model rig and animate a fish, could be anything so I thought a sea dragon would be cool. I have managed to model it and rig it up but no texturing or animations yet.
I made this model today for the Blender Weekend Challenge #485. It is a model of Rapunzel tower, well at least my interpretation of it. Let me know what you think for a few hours work.
Tangled Tower
After changing some of my blender settings related to my last post I was able to get cycles to render more smoothly, but it still took some time to do. So I was finally able to finish my Dora Railway Gun. This model has pushed me past my limits and I have learnt a lot of new things especially to do with cycles and nodes. Even though I believe it could look better I have passed the production point and just want to get rid of it. It started out as a quick model made for blender internal and the weekend challenge, which I won by the way, I later converted it to cycles and started to have a lot of trouble getting it to render with it crashing and all.
Dora Railway Gun
Leave me a comment or two and let me know what you think.
These settings have helped to improve my workflow and speed up my cycles render times so I thought I would share them out to you all.
I have just updated my Machine-Gun Joe flash game which was probably half way complete, I have made the size of the stage a bit wider and it is now at 800 X 480 pixels in size. This is to bring it in line with some higher resolution phones and a better experience all around, there is only one problem I see from this, the bunnies, hares, rabbits, whatever you want to call them all spawn around the screen and because there is a lot less space on the top and bottom of the stage I would say that your reaction time would be a bit slower for these areas and may add a bit of difficulty to the game, nevertheless the game is still better off for it.
Take a look at some screens.
Well I know it has been a while and I have been busy with a few things here and there but nothing was as important as doing work on my Diploma in IT(Multimedia). There have been a few ups and downs for all the assignment work I have to do, but I seen to be catching up and in some places I have gotten ahead.
So I am going to tell you and show to you some of the things I have been working on lately.
I will start with 3D animation and effects, for the first part of this semester I had to make a 10-15 second commercial, I chose to do some dancing speakers, but because I ran out of time and didn’t manage it well I wont be showing you the shocking result. In the second half of the semester I am tasked with making a 30 second trailer for a film, I have chosen to do a post-apocalyptic themed trailer but I haven’t fleshed out too much at this point, but I will be taking more time to create this and I will be using some excellent resources provided by the team at VideoCopilot.
I have started work on a new model that I have come to realise may take a bit of work to complete. This Heavy Cruiser is yet unnamed and still needs a lot of work and a lot of time and thought to put into it, bit hopefully the result will help get rid of any worries. I wont make this post long and winded about the intricate details of the project, but I will just show you some early renders to give you a basic idea of what I am on about. These pictures are early and things are sure to change(as they already have)
Well hello all and welcome to the new year, I am almost definite that I have no readers and I sincerely don’t care, this is just somewhere I can talk about what I do, so let us not delay and get down to the dirty work.
While I have been just laying about for the last month I have actually been learning, this may have helped but I don’t really have much to show for that part. Results from tutorials are just a that a result, I don’t see myself as being responsible for that result just actually having the result. So after some time I decided to stop getting these helpers and actually put what I learnt to good use. I have spent that time working on a model to sell and I believe it turned out ok. Take a look first and tell me what you think.
Jason Strooband 