Works in Progress

#61

Thanks Kungfudork! I really like how your guy is turning out so far. Nice job!! :thumbsup:

Color settings on my guy are real simple. Just a basic grey with a small amount of rough and a simple gradient material to simulate a rim light.

I put the material up here:
http://www.2dornot2d.com/AmbientRimLight.mat

#62

Let there be feet! :beer:

Tomorrow itā€™s on to new hands and a head

#63

http://www.netcore.ca/~reynolds/catalog/wip/WIP_pics.htm

-small town railroad station (wood frame construction) from the last century
-finishing up detailing and texturing

  • 9339 patches, 656 decal stamps (to build the 4" external siding)
  • consumes approx. 6Mb in a project
#64

Hey My Fault, Iā€™m really liking this so far. Thatā€™s also a great simple mat you got there.

Roger, Although I already sent you an e-mail about this I might as well chime in again.

I love this model. Of course, is you were going to use this model in a image or ani you would have to dirty it up a bit :).

#65

Hereā€™s a bit of info on a character Iā€™m working on:

http://www.numbmonkey.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=121#post121

#66

Iā€™m kind of a newbie to this forum so If I do something wrong let me know. Iā€™ve recently began using A:M at 8.5. I upgraded to 9.5 but I seem to like 8.5 better. Anyway, here are some characters and animations Iā€™ve been playing around with :

http://home.alltel.net/rccollins/puttyduderotosword4.avi

An attempt at rotoscoping action from video and cloth test.

http://home.alltel.net/rccollins/buglook.avi

A stop and look action. Model is modified ant man from eggington.

http://home.alltel.net/rccollins/dinorunnew4.avi

Well, more of a walk.

http://home.alltel.net/rccollins/dinoyard3.avi

Testing out compositing on video.

http://home.alltel.net/rccollins/spiderwalk6.avi

A slimy thing.

All of these are divx avi files.

I hope you donā€™t mind but Iā€™ll probably have a lot of questions on A:M. Especiall when I get to 10.5

#67

Hey Cory,

Great stuff! Youā€™ve got talent. Thanks for sharing and donā€™t hesitate to show more work.

Jim

#68

I agree, thereā€™s some good stuff here. The little dinosaurā€™s ā€˜walkā€™ has a lot of character. The Ant man clip conveys a good sense of tension and reaction. I would however make his arms hold/press onto the wall behind him occasionally, or at least have them move a little bit more independently from his torso.

#69

I agree, he looks a little (a lot) rigid. Thanks for the comments. Iā€™ll be working on my animation techniques, and will need plenty of constructive criticism . Thanks.

#70

These are just a few models I created a couple of weeks ago for a short I am working on. The buildings were for the opening (establishing) shot which is now completed. The shed hasn`t changed but the house has a little.

I will try and post stills from the animation at the weekend.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

http://www.dalemation.free-online.co.uk/AMWIP.html

#71

Dalemation -
I really like the house and shed. Nice style. The green guys face appears to be a bit shiny, but not knowing what the story is about perhaps that is totally right for the character. Really nice stuff. Thanks for posting it.

#72

I just started modeling a ā€œBalrogā€ from LOTR. Iā€™m planning on using some spriticles to make the fire.
http://www.zandoria.com/balrog.htm

#73

Now there is a fine set of splines.
My breath is bated!:applause:

#74

Thanks Modernhorse. Yes, I agree, (and several friends have also pointed out) the green guy is a bit shiny. I haven`t finalised anything yet and still mucking about with textures on the characters. I have several characters still to model. I just got so excited about animating the camera move on the opening shot and creating all the models for that that I neglected the characters for a while.

The Balrog model is amazing Will. I see stuff like that and realise just how much progress I have yet to make. A good excuse to stick with my cartoony stuff for the time being I think.

Dale.

#75

Thatā€™s beautiful :thumbsup: , hard to believe you did all that in one day. Canā€™t wait to see more!

Cosmics

#76

OK, the modeling of the Balrog is done!
6,081 patches at last countā€¦

I may not get a chance to work on the textures for a couple of months, as I work on some paying projects, but I will get back to it!

http://www.zandoria.com/balrog.htm

#77

Whoa!:eek:
Looks good. I see you had a sketch on the page, do you also develop a front and side roto to go by, or do you just start drawing with splines?

#78

I always draw a rotoscope for a couple of views, scale it to the right size, make it un-pickable, and make some guidelines.
the guidelines help line-up the same features in the other views.

#79

I have just added an animation to my site. It`s only a camera move which is the opening shot of my film but comments and advice would be welcome.

http://www.dalemation.free-online.co.uk/AMWIP.html

1.4mb

I can get on with some character animation now!

Dale.

#80

Looks great, Dale! Youā€™ve obviously put a LOT of work into this clip. I love all the detail in this opening scene. Canā€™t wait to see more! :slight_smile: