Creature Animation Done !...... Kinda

Yea well the tail cold do with a lot of work and im not to happy with the end of it but here's what i got done, I Dont think this turned out to bad for my first go.

Also here is a little shot i done last minuet on a short film its not much but i had like a day or something, and it was very last minuet so yea it wasnt anything major i might be working on some more of this down the road.

In the final rendered version their is a street and a store to the left stuff like that.

Wolf Project Part 2 : 24/7/12

Today i will be animating with

Wolf Dog

Click here to download it yourself, its made by some user named Paki over on creative clash and is free to use, so all credit for the rig etc goes to that guy. 

Well last week i helped on a short for Galway was a bit of a last minuet thing, kind of got me in the mood to some more animating, so i never really tried to do a animal quadruped before so, since i have nothing much going on at the moment i thought id give it a go

20/7/12

I have been a bit busy this week took a few days to get the software and stuff onto my new computer and all that jazz. So i haven't been working on this since the last entry pretty much but yesterday i was able to sit down and get into it again. The difference on the new computer is awesome i cant wait to start cleaning up my old animation from college this year on it no slow down from the high poly models. Anyway this video below is an old one i have done a bit more on it than this and cleaned it up some more. The turning around part was a major pain in the backside. But the current version of it im working on now is an improvement of this one below. So ehhh yea il probably have it nearly finished tomorrow, unless i make him run off scree.. which i probably will.  

21/7/12

Ok been cleaning it up and stuff need to take some stiffness out of it in some parts still some clicky looking parts im trying to get rid of, And i forgot to move the animation of the hand down the time line so never mind that, also il probably do some thing more with that hand that was just some place holder animation i stuck in. This is a playblast of y new pc looks nice huh. Nearly done i think. Contemplating making him run away hmm hmmmm.

24/7/12

So i kind of lost interest in this for a day or two been getting a bit of cabin fever being stuck in the house watching these walls do they have eyes ? always watching.

Yes so today i blocked out the rest of the animation, its so close to being done. I just need to clean it up and thats it and do the tail which ive been leaving till last and il try hit some nice accents on the dogs personalty from some of the reference videos ive been looking up. So here's the rest which i done today.

New Pc: Release the Kraken !!

My new pc came today, It was meant to be like a gift to myself for completing college and all that jazz, id been putting a bit away towards a new laptop but decided on a desktop instead so i can upgrade it if need be. Anyway check out my new beast rawr.

I ordered it from Pc Specialist its a custom build.

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Memory (RAM)	8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card	2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card	NONE
3rd Graphics Card	NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk	1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
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RAID	NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE	NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive	NONE
Memory Card Reader	INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply	CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)
Processor Cooling	SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
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Sound Card	ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities	10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
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Modem	NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
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Firewire	NONE
TV Card	NO
Operating System	Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
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Wolf Project : Updated 21/7/12

Today i will be animating with, 

Wolf Dog

Click here to download it yourself, its made by some user named Paki over on creative clash and is free to use, so all credit for the rig etc goes to that guy. 

Well last week i helped on a short for Galway was a bit of a last minuet thing, kind of got me in the mood to some more animating, so i never really tried to do a animal quadruped before so, since i have nothing much going on at the moment i thought id give it a go.

very early blocking below. 

13/7/12

Im just making it up as i go along, who know's what may happen. I know i dont. 

14/7/12

Blocking

Today i proceeded with more blocking and setting in some hold's and just generally animating straight ahead its my preference i have never been huge into planning some thing out, Although it is a good way to work and i done it a lot this year, I find it more enjoyable just seeing where things take me. So this was saturdays work would say this is still an early blocking + pass.

15/7/12

Blocking + & Initial Splining,

So now that im fairly happy with most of my blocking ive moved to spline, Where i can see how my early block is looking, Then i start to add more hold's tweak and add pose's and refine every thing over and over untill my timing is pleasing to the eye and , so right now im basically adding more character tot he shot. This is where i tend to get carried away with the performances, Although i a have a tone of stuff to clean up on this at the moment.

16/7/12

Spline faze 

Just been doing some more refinements, i done most of this on the 15/7/12. this morning i spent some time trying to change the position where he barks at the hand, it was very stiff, im not entirely happy with it. i cant seem to get the curve in his back that i want, i spent some more time working his paw positions and holds.

Ive been trying to his paws to shift around fairly quick, like a dog would do as he is barking but it wasnt coming out the way i pictured it, i think il try it again once ive finsihed the rest of the scene, perhaps approaching it like eye darts would work. 

I havent done his tial yet, or a facial pass. 

16/7/12

Just been tweaking it a bit today havent really been burning through this little project, Its going fairly slow but im putting that down to this being my first time trying a animal ! So yeah, Its not going to bad i wasn't to happy with the barking area and ive just been fiddling around with it trying to find some thing more appealing, not to happy with it, it seems off to me. 

Poof the magic dragon..

I never did finish that 11 second club thing, The college show took over , then the Game of throne books  followed by some weird time lapse's in my memory which the blame goes firmly with civilization 5. Also i need to start looking for  a job as the one i was alleged to have has gone ka poof vanished, So on the off chance your one of the few people who asked me to work for you during the show, Do get in touch. Or anyone else for that matter.

I think il fill my spare time with Drawing or looking blankly at the walls of my room.