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Playing with a strangely named model/rig
Blender Nation has been one of the really great rigged up characters available for use in Blender, mancandy. It’s very useful for people who want to focus on backgrounds or learn how to create a semi-realistic humanoid and rig. After seeing this story about different pictures people created with mancandy, I decided to give it…
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New animation project in the works
I started working on a new animation project a couple of weeks ago. I’m pretty excited about this because it’s going to be my first animated short with a plot. Sure, the Penguin Flight animation technically had a plot. But it didn’t have a valid story-telling plot. There was no conflict – it was boring.…
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Introducing Character Animation with Blender
Luckily, my younger brother pre-ordered this for me for my birthday (which came months ago), because the book is now sold out. Ever since I heard about it in Oct 2006, I couldn’t wait for it to come out. There are really great tutorials online, but I needed a nice coherent, beginning to end book…
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Raul’s Apartment – much better lit
Now this is MUCH better. Rigged together today after work. Apartment Lights, etc Test 2 on Vimeo
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Raul Domingo’s Apartment
from my vimeo page: The cartoon I’m going to be making featuring the budgie you’ve been seeing will take place in this apartment living room. There seem to be two flaws. 1) The camera seems to move in a strange, unanticipated way in the beginnig 2) I need to fix the lighting situation. I had…
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Work on my budgie short proceeds
The short will take place in an apartment living room so I’m taking a little bit of a break with the budgie to work on the living room. (This is, in many ways, a lot easier than the bird, so it’s a welcome change) Finished my first ever couch today. I’m pretty happy with how…
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Almost done!
The budgie is almost complete. Here I am testing all of the bones. I just have a few things left to fix up with the bones. Then I need to fix the tapering of the wings. After that I just have a few little things like making the bird blink. Then I’ll be about 80%…
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Budgie Toes complete
Finally got to do some more work on the budgie today after having taken about 4-5 days off to do other stuff like photography and be with my wife. Finished rigging up all 6 toes on the bird. All I have left in the rigging is to do his legs and creating a tracking bone…
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Almost ready to perch
My budgie is almost ready to perch. I finally finished getting all the bones in the right front toes. This is the annoying part of computer animation. I need to make bones for each part of the body I wish to move and then tell the bones what parts of the flesh they move. So…
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Budgie Camera Timing & Lighting Test 1 Render
Bet you’ve wanted to see the budgie all the way around, eh? Well, here it is! I was doing a test on timing and light. Naturally, the timing is wrong! That’s why I’m doing a test! The camera is moving too fast, I’m going to try and work on that as I continue working on…
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Latest Budgie Work
Didn’t get to do any work on the budgie 3 Jan 2007. However, I did get a lot of texturing and adding of bones done late on the second, I just didn’t post it. Here are some of the highlights. I added the strips behind the head, which you can see much better in the…
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Budgies
My wife gave me the idea to have some budgies star in my next short, my first true short after understanding everything I learned from “Penguin Flight” and “Hello World“. So I started work on modeling them last night around 2200. At first I figured it would be very hard and was getting quite discouraged.…
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Fur
I wanted to play a little with particle systems in Blender and see if I could get some realistic fur. I came to the conclusion that I need a lot more practice before I try to implement it. Sure, making a furry sphere went very well. I even got a little bold and added some…
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Danny
While I was at my parents’ house, I wanted to show David, my youngest brother, how quickly I could generate I could a humanoid while also practicing the principles I learned with Raul Domingo. (Thus Danny’s extremely blocky midsection) Then I moved on to some more advanced topics, such as light. I had always been…
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Penguin Flight
As I work on editing and uploading all the pictures I took during the holidays, please enjoy Penguin Flight! Penguin Flight on Vimeo