onto the next month!

HOORAY! I finally finished my 2 classes of mel scripting and production modeling. I have learned a great deal from both and hope that I will continue to remember everything that is taught to me. I just finished my final projects which i spent the last 3 days working 16 hrs each day to get them finished and/or working correctly! This month certainly has been an interesting one and definitely a tough one. I also am glad that it's over and i'm moving onto rigging (putting joints, bones inside of 3d models to make them move). It's the only class i'm taking this month because it's so in depth so I will have 17 lectures/labs. Normally ill have 2 classes per month 1 class is usually 10 lectures/labs, and the other class around 7-8 lectures/labs. Since I'm hoping to have a little more time this month, I decided to start working on my own individual studies to help keep me fresh and continue improving on what I want to do (which is animation). So today I was looking around for some pre-built rigs and found a couple of them that I liked so I downloaded them and posed a couple just to show you what i'll be working on.
B4 that though, let me show you one of my final projects. Since my code only works right now for the pc, i'll have to wait to show others the pictures of my duck, once i have that, then i'll post them along w/ the GUI. I do however have my head model I can show.

This is the side wireframe of me. We were required to build a bust of ourselves

this is the side view also without the wireframe so you can see the smoothness. Does it look like me?

here's the front view wireframe

here's the front view smooth. Does it still look like me? Maybe a little?

So onto the next part. Like I was saying before I'm going to keep building assets so that by the end of the year when it comes to demo reel time, I will have a whole library of animations that I had been working on and also a bunch of extra things to throw onto my demo reel. I'm excited to keep improving in animation. It certainly is a lot of fun to give a lifeless object life and character. Here are some of the rigs that I will be using for my individual studies = ) just so you know, since I was getting used to the rigs, I posed them and took a screen shot to make them more interesting.

A ball w/ legs and a tale? Is he starting the moonwalk? Eat your heart out Michael Jackson!

Since I can't touch my tongue to my big nose, I decided to have this guy do it for me = )


Scooby Scooby Doo!! I love this dog! It's going to be fun making this quadriped move. The only thing about the dog though is that its ears and face don't move = ( But at least i'll be able to make him wag and run and walk, sit, etc. And another bonus is that I don't have to feed him or clean up his poop!

Ruh Roh, he's getting ready to pounce!

I will definately post some animations of this dog once I get some fun things started with him. I'm excited to show others what I work on. I love to hear feedback and suggestions if any.

I hope that everyone's day has been good and I start my classes back up tomorrow so I hope to hear from anyone who reads this soon and look forward to posting more stuff!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!