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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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Animated Shorts
Just got a book today that I ordered from Amazon.com – “Inspired 3D Short Film Production”. As I watched the DVD of shorts that came with the book and thought of the dozens of ideas swirling around in my head, I came to terms with the reality of computer animation – the animation step itself,…
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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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Happy New Year!
What better way to ring in the new year than with a good, hearty, “Hello World”? Enjoy Raul Domingo ringing in the new year! Hello World (Test Walk Cycle/Wave/lip sync) on Vimeo Hello World (Mr DeMille Version) on Vimeo
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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
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He can move!
Alright, I finally finished up the animation for Raul Domingo. In addition to all I did before, I now know how to lip sync, use the NLA editor, and do some other pretty neat stuff. I technically know how to make him blink, but I was having some technical difficulties and wanted to get the…
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Progress on Raul Domingo
I’m making really great progress on Raul Domingo. As I mentioned yesterday, the fact that I’ve already used Blender before is really helping me understand what I’m doing instead of hunting down where things are. Today I not only finished putting bones into the legs and feet, but I’ve also done a wonderful walking and…
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Ah yes, his name
I forgot to add this to the end of the last post and I’m a bit of a stickler for editing posts once they’ve gone public. I am going to name him Raul Domingo after my late grandfather who I never got to meet, but feel that I know via all the stories I’ve heard…