My website is finally live! I've had that placeholder splash page for way too long...
It's a pretty bog standard portfolio site really but I'm happy with it. It's keeping in theme with my Showreel DVD which some of you may have seen.
Depending on when you're reading this there could be a few pages which still aren't live yet. These should be finished within the next couple of days!
Finally, on the off chance you're reading this on my blog here's the link to the website:
http://www.autymation.co.uk
Cheers.
Monday 21 September 2009
Thursday 17 September 2009
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Apple Slice
The apple is done!! Well... I'm going to come back and touch up the animation and render a few more passes to help integrate it but for 2 weeks work I'm very happy with it. Especially since a lot of that time was spent researching : )
CLICK HERE TO WATCH!!
Next on the agenda is getting a new showreel and website together then back to the postman and sofa animations. I've also written a short story/script I'd like to make into a short animation. I'll post that up when it's a bit tidier and some of the bugs have been worked out.
Cheers.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH!!
Next on the agenda is getting a new showreel and website together then back to the postman and sofa animations. I've also written a short story/script I'd like to make into a short animation. I'll post that up when it's a bit tidier and some of the bugs have been worked out.
Cheers.
Thursday 10 September 2009
Rendering!
I need to get back to work on this so I won't upload the whole progression of how I got here but there are a couple of videos on Youtube if you're interested and maybe I'll stick a few images on here in a later post.
Anyway this is where I'm at...
The scene is a photograph projected onto some basic geometry then another camera zoomed in slightly with an automated camera shake is making it look more like footage (all suggested by an old coursemate Andy). There are some things that are happening that shouldn't be happening and some that aren't happening that should be but it's a good solution that takes a LOT less time than the alternative.
Maya scene...
Right, back to work. I should be animated by the end of tomorrow so I'll upload something then!
Cheers
Anyway this is where I'm at...
The scene is a photograph projected onto some basic geometry then another camera zoomed in slightly with an automated camera shake is making it look more like footage (all suggested by an old coursemate Andy). There are some things that are happening that shouldn't be happening and some that aren't happening that should be but it's a good solution that takes a LOT less time than the alternative.
Maya scene...
Right, back to work. I should be animated by the end of tomorrow so I'll upload something then!
Cheers
Tuesday 8 September 2009
The First Cut is the Deepest
A bit late uploading the apple model but I thought I better get straight to rigging. I want this whole clip done by the end of the week really so I'm neglecting the blog a bit.
My idea for how to cut the character in half worked out fine, it's just gonna require a bit of on the fly rigging during animation but its all really easy stuff. I was tempted to try some ideas I had on building the cut functionality into the rig but on the time frame I've got it isn't worth it.
Maybe I'll come back and use this character again and pimp out the rig a bit. For the next few weeks though I've got enough on my plate.
Will upload animation blocking/render tests soon depending on what gets done first : )
Cheers
Thursday 3 September 2009
New projects!
Well the deadline for the postman and sofa shorts has been pushed back to December which gives me more time to add polish and relax a bit!
I'm gonna keep working on it but progress might be a bit slower with having a few new projects on the go! I would like to get one shot from the postman short totally animated and rendered in the next few weeks though.
New projects are a group project with a bunch of old coursemates and a little art test for a company back in Leicester.
The group project needs some story ideas to be done in about 2 weeks, no final script of anything just an outline so I've been getting my story cap on lately and seeing what I can come up with. Reading a lot of old mythology and one norse myth in particular could be translated to a short well. I've got a concept for that story but there isn't much meat to it at the moment so I'll work on that. Aswell as that I've got some old story ideas I've been sitting on so I'll start writing them too.
The art test is to make a well lit, well integrated character. I've been looking into mental ray and how to get some really nice renders out of it, and doing some quick render tests. I'm building the character at the moment, without reference which is never a good idea but it's pretty basic so shouldn't be a problem.
I'll post some pics up when I have em, hopefully the character will be modelled by the end of the day!
Cheers
I'm gonna keep working on it but progress might be a bit slower with having a few new projects on the go! I would like to get one shot from the postman short totally animated and rendered in the next few weeks though.
New projects are a group project with a bunch of old coursemates and a little art test for a company back in Leicester.
The group project needs some story ideas to be done in about 2 weeks, no final script of anything just an outline so I've been getting my story cap on lately and seeing what I can come up with. Reading a lot of old mythology and one norse myth in particular could be translated to a short well. I've got a concept for that story but there isn't much meat to it at the moment so I'll work on that. Aswell as that I've got some old story ideas I've been sitting on so I'll start writing them too.
The art test is to make a well lit, well integrated character. I've been looking into mental ray and how to get some really nice renders out of it, and doing some quick render tests. I'm building the character at the moment, without reference which is never a good idea but it's pretty basic so shouldn't be a problem.
I'll post some pics up when I have em, hopefully the character will be modelled by the end of the day!
Cheers
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