End of year project..

[mrflynn]

Small update, after much pulling hair out, I found the lowman xsi rig ;) after alot of spring cleaning i got it working, ish ;)

heres my meager attempt so far at 1st scene on 1st play with rig.. http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/earlyshot.mov

Encountered a few problems:

I cant for the life of me figure out a way to get decent playback without sending xsi into a loop of doom? Im using that fast playback option and caching, but it still plays havoc, my timings have been waay off, far too fast ;( il keep it in mind in future but id love advice!

Cheers all, going to be nibbling away at this for the next 10 weeks, fingers crossed il make it ;)

[mrflynn]

heres my scene so far, havent decided fully how il render it, but itl probaly end up very close to opengl setup ;)

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/scene%20so%20far.jpg

Just having problems converting lowmanxsi`s back to an ik setup instead of fk ;(

[mrflynn]

Okay another slight update, been playing plenty with the lowman rig I found and got it where I need it I think ;)

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/rigsofar3.jpg

and heres a walk cycle i knocked up, learning plenty, going to dive headlong into animating my short now ;)


http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/walkcycle.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/walkcycle.mov)

Also does any1 know a way to render out to a cropped size? rendering out full frames with vast black spaces is annoying me, and i couldnt for the life of me get it right ;(

[doffer]

Hey.

I looks really good. It's gonna be funny and educational (for me at least) to follow your progress, and so far the door-animation looks great I think.

I can't answer your question, since I use 3ds max, but your project sure looks fine.

Are you gonna model your own character or 'just' use Lowman?

[mrflynn]

Cheers Doffer im embarassed haha ;p, ok a small update but its took me ages and im now enjoying messing with all the constrainst an what not ;) I now have me a nice face rig that im almost proud of, it does what I need except blink, havent figured out a way to do it that overides my link expressions, painted myself into a corner on that 1 lol.

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/facetest.jpg

A simple run of it..

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/facetest.mov

Im basicaly controlling the eyelids and a little brow movement with just the position of the eye pupil on my face rig, im proud of it ;)

[mrflynn]

Update, got fed up and needed decent facial expression for atleast 2 scenes ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/face.jpg Almost happy with the rig I just need to find a way to be able to mute expressions via my face control to add in extra control by hand ;)

[mrflynn]

slight update thinkin about redoing the rig completely later on,

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/testscene3.mov

[mrflynn]

Another slow update ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/testscene3upd.mov

[mrflynn]

Been damn busy at the moment working at nights to get food money, anyways heres a wee update, finally got my hammer out the way and learned all about action clips an what not ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/hammer.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/hammertime.mov)

[mrflynn]

Slight update ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/hammers.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/hammersfinal.mov)
made the hammer effect more subtle

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/hammertiming.mov
started blocking in the timings...

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/enviro.mov

An heres the enviroment by its self and a real early wip of the short, (4x fast).

[mrflynn]

Cheap an cheerfull update, slowly progressing, converting everything in my scene to models with their own mixer an what not ;)

heres another bit of progress i needed out of the way before i start pluggin everythin togther ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/spike.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/spike.mov)

[mrflynn]

Ok heres my update, started doing scene 2 ;)
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/scene2.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/scene2wip.mov)

Just need help getting my poses right, quite happy with the door though ;)

[mrflynn]

ok some more progress...
2 meg quicktime sorry ;(
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost4.mov

I can almost see me getting this in on time lol

[mrflynn]

Ok heres my slight update,

il slowly get there ;) we have just 3 weeks left and i have another 2 smaller projects in the way to also have done this week.

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost5.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost5.mov)

[mrflynn]

and again ;) another slight update, i couldnt wait hehe ;)

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost7.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost7.mov)

[legolaz]

hah


gr8

[mrflynn]

this is my current progress on the jump side of things, im going to redo all of the 1st section as not many like it.
http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almostl.mov

[mrflynn]

current progress ;) slowly getting there been a mad mad week.

Only 1 week left tho ;(

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost10.mov

[mrflynn]

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost11.mov

[mrflynn]

Ok finally got my website done ;')

http://www.kflynn.co.uk

Will update with progress soon this following week.. so close!

[mrflynn]

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost15.mov

;) slowly getting there

[mrflynn]

current progress, 48 hours to go...

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/images/almost21.mov

[mrflynn]

Well its been an amazing experience both in demanding time and learning. Ive finally jumped through all the academic hoops and had my final hand in today, although its no where near the final quality i wanted, Its in and i can work solely on this project now without worry of stupid journals, documents, proof etc ;)

Thankyou all those who gave me crits It couldnt of happend without ya`s!

and heres the embarrassing final product..

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/Artwork/finalsmall.jpg (http://www.kflynn.co.uk/Artwork/final.mov)

Cheers..

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