VCU Siggraph Chapter WIPS

[Indavisual]

Hmm sorry for the poor quality. Let me try that again.

Jeremy (co-chair)

[blankslatejoe]

Crazy Jeremy.
Goodluck, I'll post some stuff once I get around to making something finished. Right now I'll be attacking begining tutorials with lightwave. :)
-Joe

[RadiantWings]

VCU as in Virginia commonwealth university!?? I did my freshman year there but transfered to SCAD (savannah college of art and design) becuase I liked their computer art program better. how is the computer art department up there in gold old Richmond? any of you live in Rhoads while you were there? also do you have more than just one room of computers now? later


www.freewebs.com/radiantwings

[blankslatejoe]

BEN MATHIS! HOly cow, holy cow!
Man, I remember you. You always wore shorts and sandals, even in winter. This is Joe Mirabello, I was in a bunch of yer AFO classes, do you remember me? If you are who I think you are, you were in katie shaw's and david shea's classes with me.

Wow man, I remember you leaving for scad too, and you certainly have improved a thousand-fold since being there (I scoped your site) nice work man!

As for VCU's 3d capabilities, they leave much to be desired. There's a small congregation of students though who are inspired and diligent, and hopefully we'll all put up some good stuff. As far as labs, we've got a lab with about 15 seats of XSI, and a lab with 10 or so seats of MAX, and then the video labs, which are run down pretty bad. The sculpture dept. has a lab with 30 seats of MAX. Also, its a state school, so funding is getting slashed left and right too. There are only 3 or 4 really capable 3d/CG teachers in the art school.

But like I said, there's a bunch of us who work hard and want it bad enough, there's a lot of talent and great ideas floating around. So hopefully we'll produce some good stuff.

Send me an email or PM, Ben!

ramsites.net/~mirabellojr/

Oh, and I see you're trying for the James Hawkins job, Jay is one of the coolest guys in the universe. He let me harrass him with questions about a month ago or so.

[Indavisual]

I thought about going to SCAD but decided to stick with VCU.

[Tikisan]

i like the concept, does his redneck family come along? how are you coming along with the model?

-heather

[CelticArtist]

Man, i'm from Richmond, and i go to SCAD, my mother was faculty at VCU, but is now here at SCAD as well. CG program here at SCAD is good, but not perfect. I'm working on my senior project at the moment, and i'll be posting things for it soon. Just saw both Richmond and Savannah so i thought i'd say hi.

CelticArtist

-Savannah, Ga.

[blankslatejoe]

wow, seems scad and vcu have a lot in common, peoplewise.

[RadiantWings]

Joe, i sent you an email, but i guess it didnt get through, email me at Radiantwings@hotmail.com, or message me on AIM at RadiantWings, sorry to have to put this in the gallery!

[blankslatejoe]

ok, here's something I'm working on fellas.

A portrait of my roomate as a crazy hulking rambo worm thing. I'm gonna color this thing digitally, but don't plan on modeling him or anything. Just having fun and helping keep this thread alive.

[Tikisan]

joe ---is your roommate really this crazy :surprised ? ...and so you just want a still from it then? he definitely reminds me of earthworm jim...at least i think thats his name.

jeremy----have you had any progress on the redneck?

-heather

[blankslatejoe]

hey guys, i finally got andy to join up too, he's on the boards as majinpunisher.

[blankslatejoe]

heather- yeah, my roomate reminds me of earthworm jim a lot. He's a crazy fella. No guns though, and he's a lot skinnier, but he still has the robotic cyborg eyes and everything.

[Indavisual]

No progress on the redneck yet. :( But I will begin working on him soon.

I will also give him a nice family, maybe give them each their own interests. Perhaps Ill give him a banjo playing son, classic. A daughter that is very studious. And a wife that is a total nutcase. I want them all to be completely different so when they interact with each other their is plenty of conflict.

Lemme know what you think. Ill try to work on the models and come up with some sketches for the family.

BTW- Thank you for pushing me along. If I dont post for awhile just yell at me and I will get back to work. :)

Jeremy

[Indavisual]

Oh yeah. Nice Drawing Joe! :)

Im always forgetting something.

[Indavisual]

Here is something else I made really quick. Doesnt have anything to do with the redneck project.

[blankslatejoe]

thats one weird looking scene... any purpose? or just fiddling around?

[Indavisual]

well i was messing around making a head, then i didnt feel like making a mouth or a body so I put a tube in his mouth and it reminded me of the guys in unreal tournament that are in jars being grown or whatever so I started making that. Basically I was just fiddling aorund. :)

[Tikisan]

yeah, its really weird...kinda does remind me of those containers with fetuses or aliens growing in them....no clue about the tube in the mouth though..hehe :)

[MajinPunisher]

TADA. Joe demanded I post on here to let everyone know I'm here. I'll get some of my modeling up at some point, but in the extremely near future it'll have to be sketches or concept drawings, until I can get back into the 3-D.

Andy

[blankslatejoe]

awesome, that's four of us. now there's only about 20 more people to go. We really need to push this whenever the next meeting is.

by they way, thanks mods for letting jeremy and the VCU gang do this up here.

[blankslatejoe]

HEY GUYS! I finally found it! Years ago I had copied down funny things Prof. Meggs said in class, and I found the list. I posted it up here, if you guys want to see.


Prof Phil Meggs Quotes (http://ramsites.net/~mirabellojr/pages/thoughts/allwords.htm)

[MajinPunisher]

I posted this in the wrong spot. Accidentally made a new thread. Replies welcomed on either thread. Stupid, tricksie me. Anyway, here's an introductory sketch from me for you guys.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=38849

I did this a few months ago. Just an idea that popped into my head. It has since developed into an idea for a film/animation.

Its an ink sketch on bristol board. Took me a while to make the file size small enough. 30k is hard to shrink down to.

Anyhow, not my best work, but just something I thought I'd throw up here.

-Andy

[Tikisan]

Andy -----it looks interesting...what has it developed into?

Jeremy-----have you made sure to email erika or kristen about your schedule for SIGGRAPH :)

-heather

[blankslatejoe]

silly andy, posting in the wrong place. I'm gonna do it too!!Just kiddin, here's that worm thing again, colored.

http://ramsites.net/~mirabellojr/images/portfolio/ps_liero.jpg

Everyone, keep in mind the posting rules, I think the mods do keep an eye on that sort of thing. There's a thread about it in this section of the boards. It's something like only one image per user per thread, unless you host it yourself and link it, which is a swell idea. Since we're all VCU students (unless your a guest browsing this thread (if so, hi!)) VCU gives us each 10-20 megs free webspace. Horay!

[blankslatejoe]

wow heather, 22 posts in what... a week? You're well on your way to becoming an addict!!!

[blankslatejoe]

hey jeremy, you said earlier you needed help with UV stuff. Look at leighs tutorials in the texturing section, they helped me ALOT.

[Indavisual]

Thanks. Yeah I started looking through tme but havent gotten all the way through. I found alot out on my own too. Next time I see you it would be cool if you could give me a demonstration on how you made audrey. :) I haven't really tried NURBS patches yet.

[blankslatejoe]

Well, audrey really was a learning process. The mesh is REALLY not very well built, but I'd be happy to sit down with ya and share what I know.

Here's something im working on for video game development:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=365495#post365495


How are all of you guy's classes going? I hear there's talk of a chapter meeting this week or next..... rumors rumors....

[Tikisan]

:wip: :wip: :wip: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
we are going to put up a poll at the siggraph yahoo group site for whether to have the meeting on tues or thurs at 8:30.....has anyone seen patrick?

[blankslatejoe]

nope, havent seen him. crazy missing in action covicechairs...

[MajinPunisher]

hey, myself and a few others will not be able to attend either of those times. Tuesdays and thursdays I have class until 9:20 PM. Which would make it impossible to come. No other times available?

Andy

[blankslatejoe]

wait a second... I may not be able to make those times either.... well, tuesday i could make. thursday though im in class till 10, (same with dan, geneliz, bojana and probably a lot of other interested peoples...)

Kinda pointless complaining about it here, since only four of us check this forum. We've got to get some others into this. Heather and jeremy; use your super mod-powers and send some mass emails around. Tell all the other officers that we will make fun of them on this thread until they come defend themselves.!!

[blankslatejoe]

erika picks her nose! I saw her do it in harrison street cafe!!!

[Indavisual]

Patrick likes wearing pink but won't admit it!!!!


Ok Ill go into Super Saiyan Mod mode and send some massive kamahamaha emails. Oh yes, they WILL feel my power and they WILL come!

As a wise man once said... "Talk to you later"

Jeremy

[blankslatejoe]

kristin has.... a goofy... demeanor! is that the right word?

[MajinPunisher]

hmm, in the words of terry giliam.........."this is a silly place"

[Tikisan]

well as far as gettin all of the officers to be able to meet on one night is hard...the only other solution i see is to have the meetings start at like 930-1000 and i dont know how anyone else would feel about that. ill talk to erika and kristen and doug...jeremy, what do you think?...i think we are starting to give up on patrick because he doesnt seem to be involved and is being really hard to contact by email and by phone.

any thoughts on all this?

-heather

[blankslatejoe]

patrick listens to Barry manilow

[blankslatejoe]

if we pushed the time back, i could make the thursday too, (maybe a little late, but not much) my class ends at 9:50.

Otherwise, im fine for tuesday.

[Indavisual]

Im down for anything. Im free after 6 everyday... As for patrick Ill talk to him tomrow. We got Illustration class at 7:50am, oh my does my clock say 1:40am. Good night. Ill also tell his ass to post something for once. Uhoh I just kicked into kung fu mode! Hes gonna regret being silent. Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!:insane: :argh: :buttrock:

[ekatron]

so, here i am and yes i like to pick my nose. but only in front of joe. and only in coffee shops. mmm boogers and coffee :shame:

we've got a little dilema here, kids. kristen and i have class til 8:50 monday nights. doug has class til 8:20 on tuesday, me and kristen til 8:50 wednesday, doug til 8:20 thursday, and the weekend probably isn't the best time for meetings. so now what? the bylaws say all the officers must attend meetings. we could do the really late meetings, but again, will anyone come? we're in a bad spot.

so this is where the poll comes in. should we modify it to be more specific and add some late-night options?

:airguitar rock :buttrock: definitly rock.

[MajinPunisher]

Is 9 oclock too much on wednesdays? Tuesdays and Thursdays I have class from 8 AM to 9:20 PM, and I'd really be dissapointed to be missing out on Siggraph. I don't really have any problems with late meetings on weekdays.

[ekatron]

we hadn't really considered 9pm on wednesdays... or mondays for that matter. should we put that in the poll? we could have options like:

monday 9pm
tuesday 8:30pm
wednesday 9pm
thursday 8:30pm
weekend ~

how does this sound?

[MajinPunisher]

It sounds better, I'm up for the monday or wednesday timeslots definately, the tues/thurs ones I am sure I cannot make unless they are pushed back to 9:30. I've been participating in the yahoo poles, however, it doesn't look like much of us have been.

[ekatron]

yeah i know. tell everyone interested in coming to meetings that if they want a say in when the meetings are they better vote. if they don't, tough- no complaing about not being able to make it. so let's spread the word, shall we?

:scream: it's freezing cold outside

[blankslatejoe]

no matter when the times are, i would still be as active as i could be. the only REEEEAAL crunch for me is thursday. Even then, I could make a later thursday meeting, I'd just be a little late.

[blankslatejoe]

Originally posted by ekatron
yeah i know. tell everyone interested in coming to meetings that if they want a say in when the meetings are they better vote. if they don't, tough- no complaing about not being able to make it.


well said! For a NOSEPICKER!!!! :D :D

[ekatron]

:shrug: meh.

at least i don't drool like the others :drool:

[Indavisual]

:wip: ORDER! ORDER! :wip:

I talked to patrick and he said wednesdays are good for him and late thursdays, but he said wed. is best.

:D Thank you, you may proceed.

Oh by the way...

I TURN 21 IN LESS THAN 6 HOURS!!!!!! :beer: :beer: :beer:

[blankslatejoe]

happy birthday dude!

[Tikisan]

:beer: :beer:
:scream: :scream:
:applause: :applause:


YAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMY :)

-heather

[Indavisual]

Heres a crappy devils head i made in a couple hours. I think ill rig its face for some animations, just for practice. Oh well Ill put this up just cuz you people need something to look at! This is a graphics forum isnt it!:D

[ekatron]

hey

jeremy how was your birthday? we all owe you a birthday beatdown...

guys... how come only 6 people have voted for meeting times? we gotta get people crackin. SCOTT MAPLE needs to vote. i think its time to start the insults again :D

[blankslatejoe]

scott has a secret crush on James Earl Jones, no joke guys! No joke!!!!

[blankslatejoe]

actually, heck. so do i. It's that sultry voice.

[Tikisan]

why isnt anyone voting...im sure there'll be complainin after too...and i wont wanna hear it...when do you guys think we should close the poll and put up flyers for the meeting next week? sometime this weekend? send out a mass email to reach outand smack those slackers :)

yeah jeremy how much of your birthday do you remember? ;):surprised

[Indavisual]

I remember the six pack of Jack Cola, I remember the Irish Car Bomb, I remember the Lemon Drop, I remember the Long Island Ice Tea, and I remember the Blowjob. The only bad thing about it was when i didnt feel so hot at my 8am video class with Patrick Power. Although we watched Amelie which was cool.


I voted on the poll! :)


We should have a "Siggraph Party" sometime. Ill be willing to hold it at my place if you want.

[blankslatejoe]

"Ah, so that explains why we haven't seen................."


too easy jeremy, too easy. I was gonna respond to your reply with a REALLY killing "making fun" on patrick (he needs to get his butt online here) and you. But the stab was just too out of my character to hit the submit button. So thank yer stars dudes. It was pretty bad. It least coming from me it woulda been. That would be... why... I didn't say it... because... it would be out of character. So thank your stars. cuase...I'm a fan for character. Yeah... Damn skippy.

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Happy birthday again by the way.

[MajinPunisher]

wow. amazing post joe.

[MajinPunisher]

see now, there's some meanness for you Joe, you should be taking notes.

[DigitalCrystal]

I find this somewhat ironic:

I was born in Savannah, and I live in Richmond, and plan on attending VCU next year... I'm into CG, and I noticed yall here. Very strange ey?

Anyway, just thought I would say hey and it sounds like I'll have to look yall up next year as far as clubs roll. :)

Here's my latest wip from today as a matter of fact, I'm no character animator, but I'll throw just about anything nonorganic together!

http://www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/robotics/4.jpg
http://www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/robotics/5.jpg

Oh, and one more bit of irony for ya.... my name is also Jeremy... :)

Go figure right?

See ya,

-Jeremy

[blankslatejoe]

Originally posted by MajinPunisher
wow. amazing post joe.

I dont understand you Andy.

I assume this has something to do with my meaness training.

For those you dont know majin(andy) is training me to be meaner, because im not negative enough.
I'm working on it though, here's a quote from a week ago:

"I'm disappointed in you all. and by you all, I basically mean andy"

This goes hand in hand with my cursing quota, which was established to help me curse more. It's about damn time if you ask me. !!!

ANYWAYS:
Welcome to the boards Jeremy II !!! Stick around and see what we're up to. Nice model you got there, give us some background info on yourself? (what programs you use, how long you've been into this, etc.etc.)

[blankslatejoe]

oh, hey, I updated my Axe thread. I've finished my first texture for it! hoo ha!

hop over here to see:

joes low poly axe thread of doom (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=376723#post376723)

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey, thanks,

I'm currently using MAX 4.2, I have MAX 5, but I can't get it to install on my System..

AMD XP2100
NVidia GeForce 4
WindowsXP PRO

That's unfortunate because I've read that they have done a real nice job with the new features. And they have corrected many lighting issues.

To be honest with you, I started using 3D studio max last January. I liked it so much that I entered into a competition with a pal of mine through Highschool organization and from there Competed in:

Districts(Richmond, March): Placed 1st
went on to
States (Virginia Beach, April): Placed 1st
then on to
Nationals (Kansas City, June): Placed 14th.

I wasn't too disappointed about the 14th, I mean, after all, I just learned of the program 5 months earlier.

I haven't had any classes on the program, unless you count all of those tutorials I've done...:rolleyes: I'm pretty much self taught. I also use Photoshop 6 and I enjoy using FLASH... :) check out www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com if you would like, I made that site in about 3 weeks (my first flash site, on a trial version of Flash MX).

Anyway, that's a little baclkground on me. I haven't had much experience with Character animation so much, but, like I had mentioned earlier, I feel like I know my stuff about nonorganic stuff :).

Talk with yall later.

Thanks again for the welcome.

-Jeremy (II)

[Indavisual]

Impressive Jeremy II. I guess I will let you keep my name, cuz Im such a nice guy. :D

So where do you live in Richmond? Will you be a freshman? You should definately join our organization. I will be your boss, kinda, so sucking up is encouraged. Although in our organization I don't know how that would help but you should still do it!

Nice to meet you. And look forward to meeting you in person. Maybe you can teach me a thing or two about non organic stuff :D.

Jeremy #1 !!! :D

[Tikisan]

hey, make sure to get out the whips to make peoel vote, cuz we are closing the poll this weekend :)

jeremy ii, thats really impressive...definitely keep up and join when you go to VCU...do you know what you want to go into? :)

[Tikisan]

hey, do any of you know why kristen can't post? she has logged in and her options are right, but it says she is not allowed to post replies, etc. any ideas?

[LovrNotAFightr]

what's happening guys and girls? joe you shouldn't talk smack on people when they aren't here. i think this traumatic event calls for some food to be brought to class. anyway, everyone's work is lookin' good and i am officially here now, so no more talking smack. :shame:

kristen

[blankslatejoe]

well, looks like whatever it was, she's posting now... glad that got sorted out. And ok kristen, we cant bash on you anymore. But patrick, scott and groo are still fair game. HEY!! we have been totally ignoring GROO!!! someone pick up the slack here, i can't do all the making fun work!

[ekatron]

scott likes to wear wizard hats when no one's looking
:applause:

[blankslatejoe]

man wizards hats... Im from the nova area and I'M not even a wizards fan. come on scott. whats the deal man?

[DigitalCrystal]

Thanks.

I'm signed up for Business Admin, but I'm looking for possibly a minor in CG, if at all possible. I was told that VCU has a really good CG department, and I really would rather be doing CG as a major, but from what I've read and look around at... there isn't that much happening in this neck of the woods (Richmond) as far as Computer Graphics goes *maybe I'm just young and naive*. So I figure, I'll get into business for myself (hense the Business degree) and create my own business for advertisement and such. Allowing me to continue in my CG career but with my rules... *sorta*.

I mean, I just look at it this way, IF I grab a CG degree as a major, and graduate, where will that lead me? -->Starving artist? And I would need to move west to be truely and honestly successful? I mean, I really haven't had a chance to ask anyone studying the field what was to come after college for them, but that's just want I've seen (however extensive that view is....). So, unless you folks can convince me otherwise *feel free to do so* I think I'm stickin' to business.

The business isn't running so bad so far. Digital Crystal Designs' total net income so far after 6 months is around $1200 (freelance work mainly) and with little/no debts such as office space and such, we get it all *until taxes*. We've had 6 clients, one or two of which we have done videos for free just because we wanted to help the folks out, and have a larger engineering firm looking into us. They design bridges and hire firms to put together 3d video/picture renderings for presentations. They've seen our website, like what they see/have heard about us, and are interested in seeing what we can do. So that's looking like some $$$ :)

Right now I'm currently working on a video for a national competition and so far we're doing alright. And when I say we, I mean my pal Karl and I. Anyway, we're creating this futuristic city scene with flying traffic and the whole deal. The video has to be 30 seconds long and describe some themes such as teamwork, community building, and mentorship, types of positive aspects, all based around this organization that's putting on the competition. *Like an advertisement for them, in your own special way.* So that's what I've been doing for the last few days. Karl's been having some trouble rigging his mesh for our main character though, and that's troubling. We've both never worked on animating characters, and it seems that interaction between animated characters is the way to go. So that poses as a possible problem. I guess the main thing we have against us is time. The video has to be in California by 5pm on the 21st. And we expect to have a bus (that wip I showed earlier) full of animated characters flying through the futuristic city, with two characters talking about how teamwork/mentorship/community pride blah blah helps them and the society stuff.... in 30 seconds.... Last year if you placed between 1st and 4th, every member of the team recieved the lastest version of 3d Studio Max... which would mean 3d studio max 5.* (this year). They are Edu copies, but still a legit MAX 5 copy none the less. IF you would like to help and would like to join the team (3 people at the moment) that would be awesome, Karl and I drive through downtown Richmond everyday and have an hour and a half lunch break between our VCU classes and Highschool classes. So maybe we could stop and have lunch or something if you are interested in helping.

WOW, that's a long post... have a nice evening folks and I'll be checkin' to see if anyone of you speaks of any interest on that project. I'll post some pictures of our progress tomorrow or something like that on our website for all to see.

See ya,

Jeremy !!

[ekatron]

no no no joe, you've got it all wrong. scott wears the tall pointy wizard hats. you know , the type with stars on them? he doesnt have a staff though...

[blankslatejoe]

oh posh woman! I know you're just being nice. This is a free country, scott can like whatever team he chooses...

scott---wherever you are--- it's ok. Seriously. We wont judge you by your basketball preferences....

[Indavisual]

Jeremy II, I would be willing to help in anyway that I can. How about you email me so we dont clutter the thread. rolandjc@mail1.vcu.edu

-Jeremy I


P.S. Scott joined the circus when he was 6. He realized he couldnt cut it so he left the one legged midget a note saying he was moving to Vegas to be a showgirl. He proceeded to have a sex change and again realized he couldnt cut it. So he left his fellow drag queens to search for his true dream of being the treasurer of the VCU Siggraph Chapter. And he lived happily ever after.
(no offense to one legged midgets or drag queens)

[blankslatejoe]

.. on weekends he likes to go on long walks by the beach. His turn ons are: anything grand theft auto related, wizards b-ball, and ponies.

[Tikisan]

I heard that scott likes to play wizards basketball on a pony so none of the other wizards can catch him :).

Jeremy II: yeah, if you guys need help..give me an email at h_trevaskis@yahoo.com with some details.

[DigitalCrystal]

(EDIT: I can't send the emails through so here it is guys)

Here's what I've emailed for those of you out there who may be interested. From here on out we can continue discussion through email and chat online:


>>>
Hey guys,

Thanks for offering to help. Here’s the scoop on the our situation:

We need human characters. That’s the long and short of it. In our story board, we need 3 main distinct characters. A woman in her 30s/40s (future), a 17 year old girl (future), and a 17 year old girl (present times :: same as the 30/40 year old when she was younger). Basically right now we have ¾ of the woman 30 year old rigged and nearly ready for animation now. Karl has been messin’ with gal since the start so it’s moving slower than we….I expected.

I’ve setup a webpage for you to go to check out some of the pictures and a little bit more about the story board.

www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/3ds/video

If you have a fast connection you may want to download www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/3ds/video/traffictest3.avi


Jeremy Hodge
Digital Crystal Designs
Co-Founder / Director
www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com
>>>

[blankslatejoe]

I hate to be the pessimist, Jeremy 2, but you've got a long way to go by the 21st!. Even for 30 seconds, it'll be really tricky and I wish you the best of luck. Although I can't committ myself, I would be more than happy to offer you any advice or support. One of these days when you are on campus we'll have to meet for lunch.

my email is: blankslatejoe@hotmail.com

bytheway, you can't email direct through cgtalk, but you can 'personal message' someone, which will then notify their email if the persons preferences are set up right. So... it's pretty close.


Oh, and Groo likes hagus! Why on EARTH would anyone like Hagus??? :):)

[DigitalCrystal]

Thanks.

Yeah, I had tried to email through my smtp server, but since my I use dialup and my computer is over at Karl's house while we're working on this (he has cable)... my mindspring smtp isn't working.. :( So I just added it to the thread.

I agree with you, we do have quite a bit to go, unfortunately.. but it'll come together in some shape or form..

-Jeremy !!

[TheFallenWeeble]

It's stuffed stomach! Who wouldn't like that?

By the way, this is Groo. Shortly I will post things that I have done or am currently working on. Kinda like this: http://misaligned.net/images/head6.jpg
It's a head I'm working on in Blender, but I haven't touched it in over a year.

[Mr Fantastic]

So how does this thing work? This better be the right place. That's all i have to say right now. Would somebody please bring me up to speed on what is going on here?

[ekatron]

is that you scott?

[blankslatejoe]

scott certainly is a swell guy... but FANTASTIC?? that's kinda pushing it.....


It's not patrick, I ran into him today and he said he was still fumbling around richmond like a crazy lunatic. So it MUST be scott... or not.

Up to speed, we're just chatting about how goofy all the officers/ committee chairs are.


Patrick likes earl grey tea. Seriously. He also lifts his pinky finger up in the air when he drinks it. It's bizzare....

[ekatron]

:wip: :wip:


so

we've procrastinated too long. while i think it's a little late to hold a formal siggraph meeting, we'd like to invite everyone to get together tomorrow (wednesday) night at 9pm in the video lab (215 pollak). you can bring work you've recently completed, work in progress- anything you'd like to share. and that doesnt even limit it to 3D work. if you have drawings, designs, sculptures... this includes whatever you want it to. we'd just like to get together and see what everyone else has been up to... a show and tell.

we have G4's, a DVD player, VCR, and stereo available. to those of you who might want to bring renders, please bring it in a file format that we can view on the G4 on CD or ZIP disk. the ORBs are still acting funny here and who knows about the jaz and superdrives.

we can also access the web here, although we'd have to crowd around a computer in the back of the room.

hope to see a lot of you there. and please vote for a permanent meeting time if you havent already.

over and out
erika :eek:

[Indavisual]

Heres a little walk cycle I made. Works best in windows media player. Im wondering if anyone can tell me how to compress it. I compressed it from 85MB to 11MB. I dont know why 2 seconds is 85MB :surprised:

The walk cycle might be a little fast because after I rendered it seemed slow so I sped it up alot. But now I realize that might be because of how big the file is, my player my be slow. :shrug:

Well heres a my plain ol forward kinematic walk cycle. :D

Well hmm I dont have web space and I just realized I cant post an avi as an attachment so nm. But I could still use an answer to that question about compression. :)

Jeremy

[blankslatejoe]

jeremy, your file probably doesn't have any compression codecs on it. There are some good programs out there to help you with compression, patrick power uses cleaner, I've used virtual Dub for awhile, probably because it's free and simple.

here's an url:

http://www.virtualdub.org/index

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey folks,

Karl and I should be able to come tomorrow night. We'll probably be running a little late, I've got work.. But we shouldn't be too slow at getting there.

I'm sure it'll be a treat to meet you all, talk with you soon.:thumbsup:

-Jeremy !!

[blankslatejoe]

see you there man! video lab is on second floor of pollack room 215, which is 325 n harrison. Looking forward to meeting you!

[ekatron]

heather, would you bring "disease" tonight? i'd really like to see it again. i'm also going to bring pam's piece, "Tomatillo, Falling Back to Earth" for those who havent seen it. it's amazing.

jeremy 2, do you know how to go get to our meeting? if you need directions, we can give them to you. i'm not sure how familiar you are with vcu's campus.

has anyone offered doug a ride? he said he couldn't make it without a ride. i mean, i would, but all i can offer is a slow piggy back ride.

[ekatron]

and

i know not many of you are interested in experimental animation, but for those of you who are, the iota center (www.iotacenter.org) has a discussion group you can join. i just got on the group, and larry cuba sent me an email welcoming me. larry cuba, we know your email now, WATCHOUT. it might be worth it to join just to read the discussions... our very own

****janeann dill****

posted yesterday promoting her film to all of her "fans and LA friends" haha. check it out if you get a chance.

[blankslatejoe]

if i had a car... i would glady offer him a ride... :( Heather bring that piece you won the award for!

[DigitalCrystal]

Yeah, I'm somewhat familiar with the campus. I know where the Pollak building is. Just off of franklin a bit... I checked the campus map online and I'm pretty certain I can find it. I would give anyone who needs a ride one... but I don't have any space in my car.. http://www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/fiero/new/Picture%20018.jpg...sorry Doug.

Like I said earlier though, I'm not sure when I could get there.. probably not much later than 9... So if you start late... don't feel guilty... :):)

Anyone got an estimate on how long the fun is going to last?

[Tikisan]

Yeah, i'll bring, but dont get your hopes up for how good its supposed to be.

Oh, and i can give doug a ride, if you see him just tell him to call or email me.

-Heather

[TheFallenWeeble]

I missed the meeting 'cause I had to work. What all went on? Fill me in, or something.

[blankslatejoe]

well lots of showing off of stuff, jeremy II and Karl came by (by the way guys... go to www.mk12.com on a fast connection, its that site we were ranting about). A good time was had by all. I most enjoyed scotts piece about the cats... bizzare and funny and conceptual! cool stuff dude!

[TheFallenWeeble]

Dude, it's 4AM. What the hell are you doin' up?

[DigitalCrystal]

Yeah, we had a good time. I checked out MK12, and it looks pretty sharp. They've got a pretty nice portfolio. It was nice meeting you all for the first time in person and hopefully we'll be able to attend a some more meetings.

The SIGGRAPH trip looks like it's worth wild.

Karl and I are still working on our video for this competition and we're now adding the animation to the whole city scene. It looks like a few late nights are in our future is we're going to make our deadline :thumbsdow.

[ekatron]

heylo again

groo, to put it in short, we did a good job showing off and pissing off the lab monitor. i dont know if anyone else saw him over in the corner rolling his eyes, snorting, and slamming his book, but i dont think he was too happy with us actually uring the lab for what it's meant for...
we saw both of scott's cat pieces, heather's disease piece, kristen's SPAM, my hungry jack, joe's old animations and current modeling projects, jeremy 2 and carl's projects and current animation, doug's drugged out video......um....... i think i'm forgetting someone..... forgive me if i am.

jeremy2 and carl, you're welcome to come to any of our other meetings and events. we don't have funding yet since we're a new organization to vcu, but hopefully we will soon. to catch you up to speed, we've been having regular meetings every other week and tried a video game night. next time we'll make sure to bring the systems :) . we're planning to have guests come and get some tutorials going. but as for now, we're brainstorming free things to do to keep people interested. you can keep up with us and get on our mailing list by joining

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VCU_SIGGRAPH/

um
i think i'm done

[ekatron]

no wait i'm not

anyone have any ideas of what we can do at our next real meeting?

[blankslatejoe]

well, i know andy ans some others were asking about the lunchbox... we could give a lunch box demo for handrawn animation/ marionettes...?

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey folks,

Just wanted to update you on our status.. or mine at least. karl is actually flying now when it comes to riggin' characters, he just did 2 within the last 2 hours.. They aren't really detailed folks, but they will do just fine to fill in the void of lack of people. Anyway, here is my city with textures and fog the way fog is supposed to be. :thumbsup:

I through the bus in there also to see how it looked.. and so far everything is going well. The picture of elvis is actually a video of him at a concert for one of our Video billboards. I thought about putting a news broadcast or something like that, but I couldn't find any and the ones that I did find were about September 11th, and then the others were going to cost money :(. So I figured, hey, why not music? And then I thought about the age of the judges, they may not be into the new age concerts with lights and all, so I figure Elvis will reach out to them in some way :):thumbsup: I have also placed the "digital crystal designs" animation on a screen or two in the scene... why not right?

Anyway, here the picture is. The scene is still lacking about 9 buildings that a junior from the high school is producing. He's just now learning 3dsm and we're trying to get him "learned". The scene also lacks color.. So I'm planning on adding plenty of text signs on the buildings and a bunch of "lights"<--- objects with glow.

http://www.digitalcrystaldesigns.com/3ds/video/city6small.jpg

Cheers,
-Jeremy !!

[TheFallenWeeble]

Cool still. Are you going to add more texture to the vehicles and buildings? Right now they seem a little too perfect. A few scratches... some wear n' tear (at least burn marks from the propulsion systems on the vehicles). Make it real. I know that's asking a lot, especially with a deadline (you've given yourself? or is this for someone else?). As far as the signage n' lights go, I don't think Elvis is that bad of a choice, but I'd think you'd have to add something to it to make it fit that time (I dunno, maybe make it a concert ad for ElvisClone: Live in Concert or something). I look forward to seeing the rest of this.

In other news, I'm unhappy with the fact that I missed the last meeting (and probably any upcoming Wednesday meeting), but I'll get over it. A lunchbox tutorial might not be a bad idea, but maybe a better idea would be to show how you can do the exact same thing at home with Premiere and a DV camera. Just a suggestion.

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey Fallen,

Yeah, I'm still planning on adding other small details in. Right now, I'm just still working on the raw development. The cars and such will have more "grungy" textures on them, but for the moment, I'm stickin' with the solid chrome :)

I've added some signs to the scene and changed the glass material on the roofs of some of the buildings.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.

-Jeremy !i

[ekatron]

jeremy2-
i think groo's right... it doesnt make sense to just have old elvis on futuristic tv but it would add context to make it an elvis clone. that problem would be easily solved by just smacking some text on the footage titling it..... you know how they normally put it at the bottom of the tv so you know what you're watching? also, a really easy way to get some news footage on your billboards would be to just tape it off the tv yourself. all you need to do is hook up a camera to your vcr or tv and hit record. then you can digitize that footage and project it onto your billboard. heather knows a lot about that... she could give you advice if you want to continue with that idea. i do think you need more than just one kinetic sign... it will stand out too much and look out of place. think tokyo and new york where they bombard you with all this advertising. this is an area where you can get creative and make spoofs too to add the little details which give the environment more character.

groo and joe-
i think the lunchbox and using premier both have advantages and disadvantages. the lunchbox can screw up the quality sometimes, but you have flexibility to see what you've done quickly and toggle between frames. on the other hand, premier you can use at home and dont have to wait for lab time. maybe we could show bothe techniques.

what about having some basic lighting and sound workshops? we could get bob k to come in and show us maybe, or, we could do it ourselves. i think both lighting and sound contribute a lot to the quality of whatever you're working on.

erika

ps- maybe we should do thursday meetings since thats when patrick can do it. input?

[DigitalCrystal]

I'm with you all the way :)

I have several screens. In fact, I have 8... but in that scene I only had 3 :) The others are going to be using a similar style like you were talking about... ie New York or Tokyo. I was thinking of adding a spoof like:

"The Land Before Time 27
-Return to the Green Valley, again, again, again."

Or something like that, along those lines :)

Since the video is only 30 seconds and the characters are going to be on the bus, it'll be hard to see all of it, so anything will have to be quick, clear, and attention grabbing. :)

Thanks for your input Erika.

-Jeremy !i

[TheFallenWeeble]

Originally posted by ekatron
groo and joe-
i think the lunchbox and using premier both have advantages and disadvantages. the lunchbox can screw up the quality sometimes, but you have flexibility to see what you've done quickly and toggle between frames. on the other hand, premier you can use at home and dont have to wait for lab time. maybe we could show bothe techniques.

what about having some basic lighting and sound workshops? we could get bob k to come in and show us maybe, or, we could do it ourselves. i think both lighting and sound contribute a lot to the quality of whatever you're working on.


Slight nitpick... I think you can still toggle in Premiere as well. At any rate, all of those workshop ideas are great. Also, Bob (Kaputof) knows a lot about the lunchbox and doing stop motion in Premiere as well. At any rate, let's see what we can get.

Jeremy ii, show some more stills. Oh, and pardon me for not going back n' checking, but what was the deadline you gave yourself(selves)?

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey folks:

I'll get some more stills up probably tomorrow.

Well, the dead line for the video is the 21st. On that day, the video must be in California :) Sooo, that means we have until the 19th? We really want to get the video finished before then, but we'll see how it goes.

All of the smaller details are becoming more time consuming by the hour, so, we shall see.

Everything seems to be moving smoothly though, which is good.

I'll chat with yall soon.

-Jeremy !i

[Tikisan]

hey, thought id post what i was workin on...its a quick animation for senior studio...its a bush baby, case you were wonderin...my response is "eh :shrug: "...whats yours?

[blankslatejoe]

wow, them are some freaky eyes there heather... :) i like the hands the most though, they look really fleshed out, in an alienesque-y way.
what is a bushbaby? I have never heard this term.


Jeremy II and Karl, good luck, keep up posted on your progress!

[TheFallenWeeble]

From what I can tell, it's a lot like a lemur. Couldn't find very much pictoral information on the web... though I did get a decent idea from a couple biological sites. Are you gonna texture it more? Have you set up the rig for animation yet?

[Tikisan]

yeah, its a bit like a lemur...but smaller and the lesser bush baby doesnt have as long of tail.

dont really have time for texturing...bob k wants the animation done in three weeks pretty much...workin on the rig and hind legs right now...this, the princesses, and my other animation are keepin me quite busy...almost annoyingly since i cant work on a lot of details....right now i think im going to use this toon shader that is on it already...i like the luminance it gives and it will be in a night scene since is a nocturnal critter.

[TheFallenWeeble]

I look forward to seeing it... by the way... I have a sketch for the little boy at the end of the princesses animation... I've just gotta get it scanned.

[MajinPunisher]

Which one of you lucky beautiful people would like the amazing opportunity of teaching me rigging? I am impatient when I try to learn it on my own. Come on.............who's it gonna be........

[blankslatejoe]

isnt riggs crazy? Poor danny glover.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Originally posted by MajinPunisher
Which one of you lucky beautiful people would like the amazing opportunity of teaching me rigging? I am impatient when I try to learn it on my own. Come on.............who's it gonna be........
What is it exactly that you'd like to know? Setting up the IK chains? Setting up the rig controls? Is this specific to biped characters or for other things? There are a couple really good sites out there that explain rigging pretty well. When I get a chance, I'll track them back down and post 'em for you.

[blankslatejoe]

Hey everyone,
This is joe, and this announcement is in regards to my brother's (James Mirabello) documentary which is being aired TONIGHT on PBS at 9:00 pm. It's called "Partners of the Heart" and is about the pioneers of the medical procedure that is now used commonly to save blue babies.

Sorry if you guys get this message twice, im just trying to spread the word.
-Joe

[The_3dhawk]

I could teach you some rigging for maya but as for other programs i haven't had time to learn it for any others yet.

Also, Discreet is looking for demo reals. Go here and check it out.
http://www.uemedia.com/CPC/article_5041.shtml

Oh btw this is Jeremy #1. I am at TV-8 right now so this is Gary's, TV-8's 3d guy, username.

[blankslatejoe]

hey guys, im about done with the axe project, you can check out the progress here:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39257

leave me some crits!

[DigitalCrystal]

Karl and I are still pluggin' away..

Less and less sleep is occuring... as is the fun as we pour our time into these last details that pull the whole thing together.

Karl's experiencing some trouble with the bipeds and scaling them..:(. The city is basically finished... and as for the rest of the scene, 90% done... We calculated about 10 hours left of composing and then, the rendering+sound+tweaking-sleep-work-errors...we should be right on time on monday :).

Hope everyone else is doing well..

-Jeremy !i

[TheFallenWeeble]

GO GO GO!

[ekatron]

snow!

[TheFallenWeeble]

So.... did you make your deadline?

[Indavisual]

Ok, everybody. Meeting is set for 9pm next wednesday, the 26th. I hope to see you all there. :cool:

[TheFallenWeeble]

I'm not gonna be able to make it (work... gotsta pay the bills), but fliers will be forthcoming.

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey Everyone,

We've got the Video off, overnight to california via Fedex. So we're happy.

The video could have been a litttle better, but we are over all pleased..

I would show the video, but I'm back on my 56k connection, and the 48 meg file is just a bit too much for this connection...

Thanks for all of your support.

Talk with yall soon,

-Jeremy !i

[ekatron]

sorry if this is a repeat, i just don't want anyone to miss the deadline

REMINDER: today is the very last day to apply to be a student volunteer at
the annual SIGGRAPH 2003 conference in san diego.

info and application:
http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/cfp/students/volunteers/index.html

applications must be in by 5pm pacific time (i think that's 8pm our time).
all you need to do is fill in some blanks and attach an image of your
student ID... won't take more than 1/2 hour max. if you need info about the
school and sponser, check out our old messages with that info in it. we've
posted the information several times. good luck! we'll keep our fingers
crossed...

erika

[ekatron]

also, it's better to apply now and cancel later if you're not sure (about money, timing, etc.)

at our meeting this week we'll be discussing the budget request kristen and doug put together. we've asked for travel funding for those people attending the siggraph conference in san diego this summer. there's a chance vcu will pay for us to go.

we're also planning a workshop about how to use the lunchbox and how to do stop motion animation at home with premier and a camera. the meeting is supposed to be tomorrow, thursday, at 6pm or 8:30pm (we're not sure what's been printed on the fliers, so we'll announce the time by tonight).

[ekatron]

oh boy

[ekatron]

or girl?

[TheFallenWeeble]

Sweet! How is that animation coming along, by the way?

[ekatron]

i havent animated yet this semester. i've just been modeling. i have to squeeze all the animating into the next 2 weeks.

it's cold again! :scream:

[ekatron]

guys

we gotta postpone the meeting due to inclement weather. it'll be really gross outside around 10pm when we'd finish. so we're rescheduling for next wednesday at 9pm in the 3D lab (209 pollak bldg). hopefully there wont be nasty around anymore

eka

[Indavisual]

check out my mega man wip. crit me pls.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46568

[Tikisan]

ok...here's further along...riggin

[Tikisan]

try this again

[Tikisan]

shaded

[blankslatejoe]

wow, im really excited about everything we are all working on. I guess I should get off my butt and get more work done myself, eh?

[TheFallenWeeble]

You, sir, are not the only one.

[Indavisual]

Ok heres an update on my mega man. Give me crits, and be brutal! but nice too \^_^/ This is my first model that I will complete from start to finish. Also can someone tell me how to get my pictures to show up on the actual post instead of making a link to my jpeg?

[Indavisual]

Ok heres an update on my mega man. Give me crits, and be brutal! but nice too \^_^/ This is my first model that I will complete from start to finish. Also can someone tell me how to get my pictures to show up on the actual post instead of making a link to my jpeg?

[Indavisual]

sorry bout that double post there. :hmm:
heres pic number two

[Indavisual]

aaaaaand #3

[TheFallenWeeble]

Sweet! Can't wait to see him move. Here's (http://misaligned.net/images/fast_sm.mov) a short [hand drawn] animation I just recently started and completed. Not much to it. It's only a few seconds long. The theme? "Fast".

[Indavisual]

haha very funny groo

[Indavisual]

Heresa poster im workin on for class. Im redesigning Shaolin Soccer pposter.

Come on people POST SOMETHING! :D

[TheFallenWeeble]

Sweet. Is that white silhouette gonna change or are you keeping it as is? If it's remaining a silhouette, you might want to gray it a bit... the white is quite stark.

Also, it may just be artifacts from compression, but there are a number of artifacts and pixelation on the soccer ball.

[Indavisual]

yeah its a work in progress. Those silhouettes arent going to remain white either. I was thinking of makin em black. Theres gonna be grass and a blue sky for the back ground and stuff and Im not quite sure how Im gonna handle the brightness of things yet. As for the ball I think its the compression. Thanks for your crit. :beer:

[ekatron]

look

[blankslatejoe]

Hey guys, im working on a VIKING ZOMBIE for my video gaming class.
http://ramsites.net/~mirabellojr/wips/zombie1.jpg

Check it out here if you're curious:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=465320#post465320

[blankslatejoe]

I hope everyone had a good spring break, I'm ready to dive back into posting here! We need to keep this thread up and running!

[ekatron]

who wants to run away to new york with me? :annoyed:

[Indavisual]

who wants to give me motivation? :annoyed:

[TheFallenWeeble]

who wants to run away to new york with me?
What are you running away to New York for?

[Indavisual]

i worked on my movie poster a little more tonight. Tell me what you think. Crits are encouraged.

[Tikisan]

where are his shoes....those wonderful shoes!!!....nah...looks good...i dont know why, but id almost like to see the title a little less orange and a little more golden...but my sense of design really sux...so you prob be good not to listen...and i dont know if it is the compression or what but the guy looks like he has a trail over/around his head?

[TheFallenWeeble]

I can dig it. Only a couple things that bother me:

1) I like the idea of the fireball soccerball (I think that's what you mean), but I kinda wish that the big soccer ball were more white. With so much orange, the poster looks a bit washed out.

2) That goal is really nice lookin, but I think it's a bit large to realistically scale with the figure in front of it.

Other than that, I love it.

[blankslatejoe]

hey guys, i just updated this project with some beginings of a texture map, let me know what you all think!
thanks!

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.ph...5320#post465320

[Indavisual]

Wow havent posted here in a while. Heres that shaolin soccer poster in its final state. Its been done for awhile.

And Joe your link isn't working for me :shrug:

[Indavisual]

Wow havent posted here in a while. Heres that shaolin soccer poster in its final state. Its been done for awhile.

And Joe your link isn't working for me :shrug:

[Indavisual]

Wow havent posted here in a while. Heres that shaolin soccer poster in its final state. Its been done for awhile.

And Joe your link isn't working for me :shrug:

[Indavisual]

Ooops sorry bout that. It kept saying server was to busy and i didn't think it posted. Guess Ill post some more stuff. Here's a flyer I made for Millennium, a VCU magazine. Its for a poetry reading coming up.

[Tikisan]

flyers look good...i like the soccer one better now with that glow around the guy...makes it flow better

here's a link that will hopefully work for joe's thread:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=49966&goto=newpost

[blankslatejoe]

Thanks heather! I was about to repost that link myself but you beat me to it! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Indavisual]

Here is a poster I am working on for Millennium the school magazine. Actually its done. used maya and photoshop.

Sorry dont know how to get higher quality pics posted so I reduced the image size to very small. Its actually 11x17 300dpi but this pic is like 4xsomething with like 19 quality on save for web with 72dpi.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Use less compression, or save it as a png. That'll give you a more crisp, albeit larger, image.

Oh, and kickass image for that, by the way.

[Tikisan]

ok...heres my first attempt at a head...usin my little sister as a model...usin 3dmax...finally working on my project for sculpture class :p

[Tikisan]

and heres the beginin of a body...yeah...dont laugh...just a beginin

[Indavisual]

sweet

[Indavisual]

heres my unfinished illustration project.

i turned a model into a zombie in a graveyard.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Zombies?! Rock! I still have to finish one illustration project before I start this last one. Dammit. Damn Escher for bein' so damn good. More posts on this soon.

[Indavisual]

-Thread Reactivated-

My latest WIP.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66789

[Indavisual]

Heres an update on that body. Still need to fix some things on the chest and butt and then ill add more detail. But right now Im gonna work on the feet and hands and get them attached. Then Ill go back to the body and finally ill create a head to operate this body. Next Ill try my luck at texturing, wish me luck.

PS sorry about the lighting on these pics

[Indavisual]

Heres an update on that body. Still need to fix some things on the chest and butt and then ill add more detail. But right now Im gonna work on the feet and hands and get them attached. Then Ill go back to the body and finally ill create a head to operate this body. Next Ill try my luck at texturing, wish me luck.

PS sorry about the lighting on these pics

[Indavisual]

Oops sorry for the double post. The server was being slow and I didn't think the first one went through. Well here's the front of the man so far.

[Indavisual]

I was told these angles and lighting sux so hopefully this is better. CRIT MEEEEE.

[blankslatejoe]

Hey everyone good work! Its good to see some activity on here.
Groo: factoid for you: Escher hated the way her drew, and always was wishing he could just draw "better". I just thought that was kinda funny.
-----------plug----------------
Also, do you guys remember ben, from the first few pages here? He went to VCU and then to SCAD, but is now working pro in the game development community. Anyway, he's got a kick butt character modeling tutorial out that you guys might want to check out. I know it's posted at www.3dtotal.com, but also made front page here on cgtalk I think.

He's also a cofounder of a neat little school called cgdojo for middle/highschoolers.. Everyone should wish him luck!
--------------end plug----------------

well, ok thats it... I'll try and post some of what I've been up to too, but I'm afraid I haven't been up to much.

[DigitalCrystal]

Hey hey again, it's me, Jeremy II.

I saw that yall had become a little more active and decided to drop by and see what was happening. I'm working on a WIP more or less for the fun of it and mainly I guess for practice for our *karl and I* national competition coming up in 3 weeks in kansas city.

anyway: you can have a look over there at http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67172&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

Hope everything is doin' well.

[Indavisual]

About time to post again and remind people this thread is here. This is my first 2d creature design that Ive done for myself with photoshop. I usually use 3d programs so I figured I make a creature and paint him with ps for a change.

[Indavisual]

This creature took about 1 hour from start to finish. Is it too dark in the face area? crits pls :D

What has everyone else been doin this summer? Keep this thread alive

:buttrock:

Jeremy

[Indavisual]

small upgrade.

[Tikisan]

the second one definitely looks better...i like the dude...only thing is, is that it looks like he would fall over because all the body weight is on one side of the leg...are you going to convert him to 3d later or what?

[Indavisual]

Yeah Ill be converting it to 3d. The way his leg is he hsould be able to hold his weight, i think.

[Indavisual]

Oh yeah forgot to say, hes gonna have 2 legs. I just didnt draw the other one.

[blankslatejoe]

bizaare stuff there jeremy. I like it though. If you're interested in picking up a lot of cool painting techniques check out the digital painting tutorials over at www.3dluvr.com


Also, if you guys are bored, you should check out what I've been up to over at www.30lives.com. Just a site revamp and such, nothing really too new.

Goodluck, hope everyone's summer is going well!!
-Joe

[MajinPunisher]

I will rule you all!















I'm really bored.

[blankslatejoe]

andy. you are cool. How's work going and such?

[LovrNotAFightr]

Hi Guys, how's everyone's summer? OK that is all. Just wanted to say hi. :rolleyes:

[blankslatejoe]

Hey guys, here's a drawing I've been working on, just to let you guys know I haven't completely forgotten about this thread.

Goodluck to all our siggraph volunteers/attendees! I hop e you have a wonderful time out west!!

[LovrNotAFightr]

joe, you are da bomb

[MajinPunisher]

Congratulations to me, your future world dominator! For I have just now become the proud owner of :

www.projectdoomfist.com


!!

It is fitting as my name is Doom. Prepare to see my fist shaking at you much more in coming days.

Still have to wait the sodding 24-48 hours for the domain name to propogate.


Blast!


-Doom

[blankslatejoe]

doom,
great, wonderful, but, of course, you'll always be known to me as maiden-slayer.

now put somethin online already...


oh... and I haven't been able to update my site (except the php part) because of my trial version of ftp commander ended... it's the best ftp program I've ever used...but is it good enough to pay 30 dollars for? find out next time on Joe-Vision!



oh, and thanks kristen! What have you been up to this summer?

[Mr Fantastic]

hello everybody? Does this thing even get used anymore? Sorry that i have been away for such a long time. So what is everybody doing now?

[blankslatejoe]

Hey guys.. I'm back in town finally... Here's a project I've been working on if anyone is interested!

Hey, you people that went to siggraph; tell us a little about your thoughts on it!

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=780209#post780209

[blankslatejoe]

Hey guys, I finally finished this piece. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks,-joe

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=788501#post788501

[blankslatejoe]

is it just me, or have I been the only one posting here since August.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Nah.. it's just you... we post, but ours are magically invisible.

[Indavisual]

What you can't see invisible posts? Oh well, guess we'll have to post visible ones then. At the end of the semester I might have something to show on here. Since school started back up I haven't had time to do any unassigned artwork. Let's see if we can get this thread going again. Time for bed then time to wake up in a couple hours. Gnite.

[blankslatejoe]

well, as long as it's just me.... then that's ok. I'm all about getting this thing going again and seeing if we can beat out some of the other long running threads on here...


and also show eachother our work and stuff.. you know...

[Tikisan]

do all of the new members know about this thread though?

Joe- sorry i missed you showin off your work...had an unexpected production meeting...however, most of my students were pretty happy about a short class

Groo- where in the world have you been hiding? you need to get out of your windowless habitat.

[TheFallenWeeble]

I've been hiding in my own little mess of a project. You can check it out here (http://misaligned.net/fulcrum). Be patient, though, I'm serving that domain out of my apartment on a DSL line on an old dual 50 MHZ (that's right fifty MegaHertz SparcStation 10... so it's a little slow. I might be moving servers soon, but don't bet on it or anything.

[blankslatejoe]

No problem heather, I appreciate the post though. I hope your meeting went well!
I harrassed andy about missing it a little, but that was just because he gets a kick out of me trying to be mean. He's seen all my stuff anyway.

Groo- 50 megahertz.... wow, I have an old 66megahertz Dos /win3.1 machine, but you take the cake.

I started on a Kapro 2 though, back in 85ish. It had no hard drive. The operating system was stored on a 5 1/2 disk, while programs were run off of a second 5 1/2 drive. I felt like the guy from wargames, only... 5 years old. You gotta love the 80s.

:)

[blankslatejoe]

groo, i dig the overall look to your site. It doesn't look too glichy in explorer with the exception of a few frame-seperated-slices not lining up.

The only comment I really have is that your gallery navigation, and the other navigation inside that center frame, really hides from the eye. You might want to do something to pop it out. (vertical might help, contrast, or a spot color (a dullish, low saturated color wouldn't destroy your look and would still lead the eye to those text items).

Anyway I dig it a lot, I really like your traditional stuff, particularly that gorrilla!

[TheFallenWeeble]

Originally posted by blankslatejoe
groo, i dig the overall look to your site. It doesn't look too glichy in explorer with the exception of a few frame-seperated-slices not lining up.
Have you seen it in a browser that properly supports png (mozilla, firebird, safari, and I think opera, to name a few)? Check it out if you haven't. It looks 10 times better. The table-aligning problems come from the fact that IE includes border sizing when accounting for a table's width (or something along those lines), putting the math off by 2-3 pixels each time. It's annoying. I can account for it with some browser detection code, but I shouldn't have to (that said, if this site was anything more than a personal site, I'd probably add that code... but it isn't, so I probably won't).

The only comment I really have is that your gallery navigation, and the other navigation inside that center frame, really hides from the eye. You might want to do something to pop it out. (vertical might help, contrast, or a spot color (a dullish, low saturated color wouldn't destroy your look and would still lead the eye to those text items).
Yeah... I figure I'll do something about that eventually. I've considered changing the color of those links, but I've gotta find something that stands out without blinding/annoying anyone.

Anyway I dig it a lot, I really like your traditional stuff, particularly that gorrilla!
Thanks! I made an animation in XSI based on that drawing and its style. If I find a internetable copy of it, I'll post it here.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Just to keep you kiddies update about the progress of my animation... here's the fur I'm putting on my monkey character... I've had to do it all by hand, and it's taking forever... and it isn't done yet. I have to finish the bottom half of it and then tweak it so it doesn't seem so repetative.

Enjoy:

http://www.mrhostbot.com/f.php/656,117/archimedes_test10.jpg

[Tikisan]

sweet....where's the monkey face?...you surely are crazy for trying to do all this work in one semester

[TheFallenWeeble]

the face is mostly done... gotta play with the texture a bit... and fix the eyes, but I'll post that when I finish the fur.

[blankslatejoe]

nice groo, I really dig that look. If youre doing it by hand, do you mean with layers of alpha channeled planes of fur, like blue sky used?

anyway, looks good.

[TheFallenWeeble]

Originally posted by blankslatejoe
nice groo, I really dig that look. If youre doing it by hand, do you mean with layers of alpha channeled planes of fur, like blue sky used?
That would be the technique. Once I finish this animation, I'll probably play with writing some kind of python script to automate it a little bit (or at least something randomize it a little bit).

[MajinPunisher]

hey, how ya doin' there, dead thread.


I will post my CGII final progress soon.


What the deuce are all you other buggers working on?

-Doom

[blankslatejoe]

Hey Andy,
I'm working on a story about this rabbit that got hit by a yellow truck and broke it's leg and played poker and....





(inside joke)

actually, to see what I've been up to, check my latest thought entry at www.30lives.com. Ugh.

[TheFallenWeeble]

In case anyone is curious, I've gotten farther on my animation... been working on the animatic, but took a moment to make this semi-promo piece for it:

http://www.mrhostbot.com/f.php/680,117/fulcrum_comp.jpg

[Indavisual]

Someone bring this thread back to life. I will post some of my WIPs for finals soon.

[blankslatejoe]

four months and no posts... wow, that's a record. I'm working on my demoreel right now; ill post a link on monday or tuesday. what's everyone been up to?

[blankslatejoe]

hey this thread passed its one year birthday and NO one even noticed! Wow!

[MajinPunisher]

I'm workin' on a character for CG-III right now.

Here is the link to the WIP thread I started for said character:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133856

Lemme know what you think.

-Andy

[TheFallenWeeble]

Been spending all of my time crunchin' out my demo and workin' on my animation (and tryin' to squeeze in time to play with Virtools). Don't have a lot to show right now. I'll try n' throw something (motion tests, demo stuff, or somthing like that) up on Monday.

[xiaoali]

Kickass, I'm also from VCU.

I just turned in my portfolio...I applied to Kinetic Imaging, CARD, and Illustration. Hope I get in...but I've only had 1 semester of AFO.

I'm interested in this graphics club thing, could I get more info?

[blankslatejoe]

hey man, good to see some new names in this thread! VCU siggraph club is basically just a club of people interested in animation, special effects, 3d modeling and animation, videogame design, game or graphics programming, and other stuff. We've got kinetic students, illustration students, computer science students, i think we have an engineering student, or used to.

We meet up, watch animations and cg heavy movies, eat pizza, sometimes get guests lecturers to come to vcu and talk; things like that. You don't need to be in a specific major to join, you could come to a meeting as an AFO student still!

It's called "Siggraph" club because the main club goal is the gather enough interest/fund to send a few students to the Siggraph convention held every summer. It's kinda like the mecca for this stuff; everyone goes and it's a cool place to see new things, meet contacts; really dive into the cg underworld.

Ok; i think that's the skinny.


joe
www.30lives.com

[xiaoali]

Cool, that sounds fun. I've seen fliers posted around the place but never got around to checking it out. When's the next meeting?

[Tikisan]

i never remember this thread...but i've mostly been working...i'm being forced to learn flash in webdesign...which would be why i'm having another interview tomorrow (well today, in 11 hours). I think the only 3d i've done recently would be for class.

[blankslatejoe]

hey guys, here's that link to my demoreel thread I promised. Any feedback/crits are welcome, hop on over to:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1255934#post1255934

[blankslatejoe]

someone revive this poor thread.

[Indavisual]

Ok...

By the power of Gray Skull I revive this thread!

That should do it. My work here is done.

[xiaoali]

How was the first meeting of the year? I didn't get a chance to go...totally slipped my mind actually.

[Mr Fantastic]

Greetings everyone.

This is Scott here. I'm kinda new to this forum thing. I don't really know what to do but I'll try and keep up.

Also I'll post some stuff I'm working on...when I'm not so ashamed of it.

[blankslatejoe]

Woooowww the thread lives. Status check vcu-ers and alumni... how's everyone doing and who are the new faces?

[Mr Fantastic]

As i said...I'm new to this. I was unaware I re-animated a thread that went out over a year ago. I just don't pay attention to things like dates and stuff like that. But I'm glad I did!

Oh and for clarification purposes: This is Scott Maple of VCU '03. Still rockin' it in the wasteland of Springfield Virginia.


________________________
www.scottmaple.com

[blankslatejoe]

hoooooooooly cow scott! this is joe mirabello of 04, do you remember me?

how have ya been?

[Mr Fantastic]

of course I remember you Joe. I never forget a fellow Northern Virginian.

I am fine! Thanks. I work in Baily's Crossroads as a Graphic Designer and Photo Restorer now. Though more with Photos as of late. It's looking about time to move on outta here!
I've been trying to keep up with my 3D but It's hard sometimes. I want to try and use these fourms to kick start my work. I was a grevious error not to keep up with them. Alas I digress.

How about you? Kudos on the job by the way. I appologize for the tardiness. It's not everyday that one of the OG VCU people land a position like that!

Word!

[blankslatejoe]

ahh thats cool to hear you're up at bailey doing design stuff. It's also good that you're on these boards, they're a good place to be to get yourself inspired and networked. I'm glad to hear you're doing well.

Thanks for the job coimpliments.. been here in boston almost a year now, trucking away. I'm getting better and am inspired pretty much nonstop 24/7. It's pretty rad.

anyway, hang in there scott. post some artwork and drop me the link when you can the chance!

[TheFallenWeeble]

Man oh man... I almost forgot that I had an account here. This is Groo from... well... I graduated in '04... but at that point I'd been at VCU for 7 years.

Still in Richmond. Self-employed in a studio I started with 3 other guys.

Woohoo!

[Indavisual]

Oh snap. Whats up fellas. Its Jeremy from VCU, dec of 04. How you guys been? Im jealous of Joe. ;) Cuz I am looking for a job in games right now but Im so darn busy with stuff I cant seem to find time to put together a game reel. Im still doing commercial production at NBC12 and jsut finished a commercial that I hear could win an Emmy, which is cool. And I am on a mod team for a total conversion for Half Life 2 called Pandaemonium. Bojana is actually on the team too, if you remember her. Good to hear from ol classmates. :)

[JBoskma]

No idea what a 3 year old thread is doing here, but it's certainly nostalgic seeing the portfolio from years ago of my buddy Ben up here. :)

[blankslatejoe]

hah, this is the thread that just won't die.

groogroogroo!!! - nice to hear youre doing well, hope your studio is kicking butt.. what do you guys do?

hey jeremy, good to hear from you dude! So you're on the pandemonium team? I've seen one of your guys post stuff here and there on polycount and cgchat. mod experience can go a long way in the biz. Tell bojana I said hi!

[TheFallenWeeble]

groogroogroo!!! - nice to hear youre doing well, hope your studio is kicking butt.. what do you guys do?
We're doing alright. I can pay my bills; anything more than that is icing.

Predominantly we're in print design and animation. Most of our recent stuff has been in print, though. We're hoping to give a good push for animation and illustration at the beginning of the year.

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