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.