Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Beauty Shots





Mr Tibbs...



Due to the fact I literally ran out of time with this project, which I'm actually quite upset about and also the fact that the I had to restart the day before hand in, I only managed to provided a walking animation of my meerkat. Over time however I intend to improve this over the summer period.The first time i edited the video i noticed that my foot was attached to my body. 



Therefore i had to re edit the animation as well as my character and below is a short video clip of the fixed foot. But then i realized i messed up the hat part of him but i really don't know how to fix it. :( I'm going to try and edit though tonight....Fun


Music Played -  Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: 13. Dance of the knights  - by Prokofiev 

Vimeo Link - https://vimeo.com/66267158 

Running Shot


Camera Shot


New Day...New Beginning?



The day before the deadline and of course I face serious issues. I decided however not to let anything beat me and to continue on to the end. I spent virtually the majority of last night unwrapping and placing the right clothes on my meerkat.

This morning, I actually placed in the bones once more and skinned my meerkat for the second time. Below is a few pieces of footage of my meerkat unwrapped and running as well as walking. 




Meltdown...



Last night I had a melt down. I had my meerkat rigged as you saw, skinned and then I decided to unwrap him for his outfit. HUGE MISTAKE.
Once I had Mr Tibbs unwrapped and sitting to perfection in my eyes for my character, I pressed play to watch him walk. But would he? No.
The bones all moved but the actually geometry nope not a single movement.

Upset was not a word.

Skinning



The horrible task of skinning, I honestly didn't think it would be so bad until I had to actually do it. Below I simply included a small print screen to show my progress..