King

So im going to try do some thing for this 11 second club competition, Hopefully i can eh do a better job on the lips and stuff this time. Anyway I have my general idea in my head at the moment going to make some reference video's .

The idea ive settled on is a this guy and he's a  king and their's a fight going to start for his pleasure, and he's speaking the dialogue out as if he's is lecturing this women on the floor beside the throne who is going to be more interested in her nails than what he has to say  was thinking of her as a slave but looking at it now i might just put her in a new throne as a queen might add a kid to.

I would like to make some costumes for the models but i really no idea how i would go about doing that so i stuck a  crown on his head. Here's a just a mock up i done for the scene.

Been trying to edit Malcolm rig into a some workable child like shape and changed a bit around.

3D Animation Showcase

AW yea i was working on this, i bet thats a shocker right ! 

Im going to try have some fancy motion graphics intro for for my the show in a few weeks.

Wasnt really happy with the end result on the acting one  and my sound on some of it (the running one) came out awfull so sad face. 

Cleaned up some tiny pieces of the animation  had to zoom out a bit near the end as the top of the heads were getting cut off in the render as the render is actually slightly smaller tan the area shown in playblasts and yeahh the wall is moving in the background il fix that before i render this out, the new render kept the lighting more open and tried to have the lighting directed more at the faces. I lost some of the nice shadowy look i wanted originally but this is good enough i think and its half the render time so il probably leave to render out tonight and be done with it ! 

Render & lighting test

This is a low resolution test and eh i think its to dark, and the eyes and teeth are way to bright and i need to come up with some thing else, The lighting is kind of hiding a lot of the facial animation. Not good ! 

I think im done, ive been tweaking things made a few change's, Spent some time trying to sort out a nice render the lighting was a issue for a while but its turned out ok i think. Have some odd texture issue on the models the head appears slightly browner than the body and no matter what i change it stays the same so I have no clue when it comes to fiddling with textures. 

The render times a bit high on these its ranges from 60 to 90 seconds a frame, But i think il just render the whole thing out tonight around 640 x 480 before i render it at hd 720 to see if any lighting issues show up which are you never really see until you render the thing out. 

I think im done, one more feedback session to go hopefully i wont have much to change because final hand in is Monday then its bye bye college yay. 

The dreaded mouth shaping woo..

One thing i always had trouble understanding was lip syncing, and i never really got much time

over the years to actually do it so im glad i got the chance to attempt it this year. Well anyway here is my first pass, think i need to hold down a few shapes. I think its looking fairly well at the moment. 

But i did have another version which i thought was slightly better on the baldy green guy but sadly i was an idiot and had opened a older version of the animation and never noticed till i got to the end and had to redo a lot of it! 

Im going to just focus on cleaning this animation up a bit more, Some stuff at the end to fix, and  a eye drifting near the start and some other little things. Almost done ! 

I might try tone down the green guy near the end and im going to clean up his face in the head grab looks a bit to busy to me. 

New Showreel !

Here's some of my latest work, But the end of this is just a place holder till i have the finished work to put in, I just put it in there for my show reel submission deadline thingy. 

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