Shirow Project Book#3 Side-Mission

#581

Well,
one advantage of usingmy old home PC at work for my workstation… Dinner time can be real productive.

After a couple of abortive attempts, (for reasons I don’t yet understand, but will look into later), I have got what I was after.

Done a LW -to- MB -to- LW bit of work, take it home and texture / light it quickly tonight and hopefully get the anim up before my missus demands I spend some quality time with her! :wink:

Just using a std MB motion file (walk/fall) but It’s worked so I’m hoping to be able to play around in MB now.
Just got to re-set the weight maps on the hi-res version so I can interchange them at will.
Starting to get into this CA lark! :slight_smile:

#582

You guys seems to have had a great weekend.
Jayreef - your Deunan kicks some major league butt over what they have on Q3.
SD - That animation is sweet. Love the jump, reminds me of snowshowing with my daughters yesterday!
Colkai - got your pmail will respond back in just a few mnutes. Thanks!
sllink sounds like your are during into arigging monster! Go, go, go
:applause:
The-Maestro - What all did that article mention. I noticed a thread in the News section that there appears to be a theatrical release of the new Applesedd here in the states. I for one am totally psyched on that!!!
aurora - you lazy a$$ wake up and get somthing done already.

#583

Originally posted by aurora
The-Maestro - What all did that article mention. I noticed a thread in the News section that there appears to be a theatrical release of the new Applesedd here in the states. I for one am totally psyched on that!!!

Indeed, I did some research. I have found the NEW AppleSeed Official site re-opening. Try this link to find out more on that. Really shows alot of promise, I’m just a bit more of the classic anime style of shirow.:shrug: But I am sure it will be a great release. Especially with the work Leyline has done so far.

#584

Sweet, I wish I could have been there for that. A live performance with Boom Boom Satelites at this opening, that would have been so cool!

#585

Keep up the great work guys. The rigging chops are really making strides! Here’s tha latest update clip I got from Sllink. Thanks Sllink!:thumbsup:

AVI 1meg

Colkai, sounds awesome…upload a clip of your work so I can see how you’re doing.
Also, I know you guys are both busy, but if you can try to keep communicating on what you’re both working on and where you are heading, I would appreciate it… Hopefully that would facilitate our being able to establish an animation team for the characters and you two are stand out candidates.

Thanks all of you and Aurora for his email support too!:thumbsup:

#586

this stuff is looking awesome guys:thumbsup:

#587

Where am I, argh in pan, where am I going in more pain. Ha ha, wait that wasen’t a joke. I’m not going to get anything done today. I’m just taking a break and checking Email then I half to go finish digging out part of my pseudo-root cellar. I have a guy coming in this week to cut a full door into it so I can open the whole thing up. Its about third the size of the house and will make life a whole lot easier plus allow me to move the rest of my junk out of storage.
But when I do get back to working on it tomorrow. I need to finish adding twitch in for the train, dropships, and camera. Set up the motion paths for the different cameras based loosely on the stills I sent you. Then’ll I’ll upload the whole package and will go from there like we discussed. I estimate that with the normal workload I have that will probably take my 2-3 days to finish up.

#588

Crap I just watched the new avi. Dang that is really coming along nicely. Bravo, bravo:applause:

#589

Originally posted by softdistortion
Colkai, sounds awesome…upload a clip of your work so I can see how you’re doing.

Well,
Just, (and I do mean just) finished this test, so what ya fink?

http://www.colkai.dsl.pipex.com/miscwork/dtest.avi

Got to make the lady stand up better for the hi-res version, at present all lo-res (10k) - Plus a couple of points on the high res must not be assigned a map so they stay put, (funky). Even so, for anything but close-ups - this seems to work.
Good grief! - I actually managed to use MB and LW together, think I’ll go and lie down! :stuck_out_tongue:

#590

animations really good, but i need to make her butt smaller, lol…:rolleyes:

#591

Very NICE:applause:

#592

Good job colkai!:beer:

#593

Yes, excellent work. The rigging looks very nice and smooth. :love:

#594

Originally posted by jayreef
animations really good, but i need to make her butt smaller, lol…:rolleyes:

Heh,
I think that partly comes from her being in a crouched position initially, but hey, some folks like a girl with some meat on her! :wink:

Got an idea for a small anim, trouble is, I can’t draw for toffee so storyboarding should be hilarious!

#595

Hey, don’t count your storyboards bad till you see mine! Can you say stick figures? Alas you’d truely understand why I do 3D once you saw my feeble attempt at drawing characters.

#596

Just checking to see how everybody is doing! I have been inadated with none computer related work the last couple of days but should have it finished today so I can get back to work on the train/dropship scene.
I also recieved my copy of LORS Lightwave 3D 8 Lighting book. Hopefully I’ll have some cool stuff to some. Hmm, need to find time to read it now:hmm:

#597

Thanks for checking in Aurora! I should be back in action in another day as well.
Sllink has uploaded the finally cockpit set so I wiil get to texturing it again. Once I get the tower scene from you I will get at texturing it as well. :wip:

#598

Well SD if yur really masochistic I could upload the tower and ring complex right now. OK texturing won;t be all that bad actually but it should be interesting. While I was torturing myself the last couple of days I have been thinking of some better camera angles to add more interest to the train scene. I think I’m going to do a little additional modeling to the train to allow for very low angle shot of the train. Another thing I realized was I only have two towers in the sceen I need to add the third non train connected tower of in the distance as well. That should take all of 3 seconds though.

#599

Ha - you asked for it I uploaded both the Tower and the Ring complex objects for you, all 93 surfaces worth!! Don’t freak to much must of them you’ll just need to copy and past the textures to on the Ring complex. I need to go back and check but I think I have the positioning templates saved in a seperate file but if you find a layer/surface name with ‘template’ in it just ignore them.

#600

still here too:thumbsup:

guges at the weekend i think :wip: