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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.. 

Rigging.... The FUN

Rigging a character has put a lot of pressure and unneeded stress on me. I have completed the rigging three times and each time it messed up. On my fourth attempt of simply rigging I feel that Mr Tibbs hasn't turned out too bad. Below is a short animation preview, this is before skinning and unwrapping. This was simply created via rigging. 

Adding The Bones To Mr Tibbs

3D Max Meerkat .... My Way

After a lot of work I final made some ground breaking work (in my opinion) on my little meerkat…Mr Tibbs. Below I have included some screenshots for you to take a look at, he is not finished but it is a start.

Hand and Arm

Arms and Body

Legs, nose and ears

Kilt and Top Hat

Scarf 

Meerkat Head?

This is an attempt i tried of a meerkat head, it has not exactly worked out. 

 

3D Max Meerkat

Before I start modelling I wanted to get a bit more research done only this time on actually 3d max meerkats. When I first opened 3d Studio Max I thought this is impossible but after researching this, I found it is is not. 

Backstory of Mr Tibbs

Mr Hubert Tibbs was once a sweet, caring little meerkat. He had many friends and was loved by all. Until on fateful night, December 25th 1868 (Aged 12) his parents died in a cart accident.

Since that night Hubert became a recluse. He took his family fortune and built his own candle factory. At age 24 he had a full running business but had no family and no friends.

Mr Hubert Tibbs has spent the next 39 years alone with only his business as his legacy.

Biography of Tibbs

Moving on from my last blog I have created a biography about my little meerkat character.

 

Name -              Mr Hubert Tibbs

Age -                53 - December 25 1856

Nationality-      Scottish

Hometown -    Perth, Scotland

Occupation -   Owner of a Candle Factory

Spouse -          Bachelor

Children -        None.

Height -           30cm

Glasses -           No

Dress -              Top Hat, Vest, Coat, Kilt

Mannerisms -  Grumpy and Unapproachable

Habits -            Drinks - Scottish Whiskey

Style -               Elegant

Saying -            Willfull Waste Makes Woeful Want

Educational -    Private Tuition

Intelligence -   Very Bright  

Goals -             Be Very Rich

Confident -      Very Confident

Strengths -      Making money

Weakness-      Whiskey

Meerkat Madness

Due to the fact that meerkats are one of my favourite types of animals, I decided to try my look creating a 3d animation of one. Below are some reference points I have looked up for the idea of my meerkat. 

After looking over the idea of a meerkat I began to look at his character, I have not figured out all his quirks yet but I have figured out that I wanted him to be from the Victorian era.  Therefore I began to look up the fashion from back then and I also looked up the film Sherlock Holmes as that was also Victorian. 

Assignment Two

For assignment two, we get to design our own character. To be honest this is more to my liking as I prefer designing characters than objects or products. After much consideration I decide to do Brief 4 - Your on your own:

"This is an open project where you can design and build an character you like. The idea is that you create an entire character reference bible before creating the character and animating in 3d. You should think of environments, personality, traits, environment and even back story."

Choosing this brief I know I have a lot of work ahead of me…

Final Model

The last days have been a mad dash to the finish line…. For my final model, I spruced up the material for the outer box, added a spring effect to my Jester and added lighting effects to the final model before rendering out the final model using a camera.

Of course I made probably one of the hugest mistake for this was rendering out a 900 frame animation on 3D Max, talk about a nightmare. The length it took to actual render out the animation was unreal and to make matters ten times worse I rendered the perspective view, meaning I had to begin all over again for the camera view….

Time for the future, keep animations relatively short…

Vimeo Link - https://vimeo.com/62570245

Normal Render Beauty Shot

Normal Render Beauty Shot

Normal Render Beauty Shot

Environment Shot

Environmental Shot

Environmental Shot

Pre Taster...

As I said below I have included a short video on my quick animation. It's really  quick so it's not  the greatest and I am not finished…. yet 

New Beginnings...

My last post to see the least wasn't one to the best of my ability some from there I decided to start over again and create a masterpiece all over again. I'm not going to babble on this time, I'll let my images and snapshots do the talking… 

Shot of the front camera with materials

Added Bellows

Added Screws

Box added around camera

My little Jester

Box

From here I intend to create the main overall box and material edit that. I have became animations but have no short video, in the next post I hope to have the overall thing finished, I may add textures or not, I'm not sure. But the overall structure will be finished with a short animation.

Assignment One....

Creating my 3D model has so far had its ups and it's downs. Sometimes 3D Max works and others it decides to mess about… anyways, the story so far.

As shown in the previous blog I have included a little Jester, and the actual Jack in a box, box. This blog however is basically a continuation of that….

Reference to the Jack n a Box

Creation on 3D Max

Jester Part

Jester Reference

This is just one, of many reference images for me....

Image of Box

Camera

Nuts and Bolts on lense / Turbo smooth

Overall Structure

Short Animation shown below..... 

Creating the so called masterpiece… Again

Unfortunately I forgot to take screen shots through out but ah well I was to excited and wanted to power through everything else and create what I have created : )

Plus the previous post shows how unprofessional the first attempt was, I was unhappy therefore I created a new one.  below I have included a screen shot image of where I am at the minute with my 3d model.

Video Available here....

And So It Begins.....

Friday brought the idea parade to the university class of 3D animation…of course being human I was nervous to present my idea but was incredibly relieved come the time it was over and the idea was presented.  This in turn however meant that animation has to be created, it wasn't until I started animating the Graphic Camera that I realised the difficulty of it. 

Max File

Jack N A BOX

Material Editor

Reference Page

Mood Board

Animation

Seeing that no matter how hard I tried, or types in different scenarios I typed into Google, Ask, all the other search engines I could not find inside, well deep inside the Crown Graphic Camera. Therefore I had to consider a whole new idea for my animation part of this assignment…..

Problem?

In the beginning I thought so, but then I began to reevaluate the idea. I decided that I would first look into the form of a Jack and a Box in order to create a new design to the Crown Graphic Camera.

           

"For the animation, I intend to open the box slowly to reveal the camera for the first time. The lid will then open so that the bed will be placed for the camera to slide along the bed. " 

This part of the animation was a send, I was always coming to create something like this, however when finding deep inside the camera I had problems finding it. Therefore as I previously stated, I had to rethink it…

"I decided that after that I would rotate the camera to the back to reveal what little inside of the camera I could find, but also I decided to animate a new piece of film being placed into the camera itself."

And that is basically my idea = )

PS, I found this Youtube video showing me how to place a new image inside the camera. 

 

Inside The Crown Graphic Camera

According to the following website … http://www.largeformatphotography.info/cameras/pacemaker/ .

I have collected much research and a lot of information on the Graphics camera itself

Open Back

Closed Back

Research....

For this project I have looked at many views of the Crown Graphic Camera, in order to get the full extent of it. 

Front View

Left View

 

Right View

Full Side

In Use