New film character

 Update

I still have a good bit to work on but I thought that I should at least post what I have been doing thus far. I am still reworking a few aspects of the character. I am currently working on the knife on her hip. I am reworking the original model and I will be posting a before and after pic of it soon.  I haven't added the displacement to the bodice and the bracers in this render but once I do all the detail in those areas really pop.  I reworked the model of the cloak to fix the inner penetration issues of the hood as well. I have been going back and forth on the look and feel of the cloak. I will also be posting some of the looks that I have come up with, hopefully by the end of this weekend.  I am also planning on redoing the belt as well so that it fits in with rest of her cloths and the period which I am trying to set the story in.

Let me know what you think....

 

New Character For My Short Film

Here is one of the characters to my new short film that I am working on. Actually its my old senior film that I created during my senior year at SCAD but it didnt turn out nearly as well as I want it to. However now I have the time to sit down and really think of all aspects of the film and really give the story the dedication that I have been wanting to give it for some time now. Also I am learning so much now that I am in the career field and I am itching to tryout a few new things that I have picked up so far. 

Now some of you might have seen this character before but for those of you would havent here she is.  The main model itself was created by a close friend of mine Travis Overstreet about a year ago. She looked a little different at that time, and no she didnt have hair then either hahaha. That is one of the many things that I will be working on over the coming weeks. I changed the cloak to be thin instead of the fur covered one that I had orinally had on her. The fur was just an added headache to get looking correctly and the time it took to render was nuts.  She originally had decorative flaps in the front and back of her dress but after careful consideration and knowing what a pain it will be in the future to turn everything into cloth I decided to leave the flaps off.  I will be making tiny tweaks to the model either adding or modify existing geo in order to make the character fit the world that she is from and I will be posting my progress as I go.

Check out this AWESOME reference site for Maya users

So once again I am back to work on my new film and I have been looking for new ways to improve my techniques with texturing /shading, lighting, etc. So after about an hour of digging around on the web I found this collection of links and information that someone has put together. Everything from animation to shader writing with Renderman can be found on this site.

http://www.tokeru.com/t/bin/view/Maya

If you are having a hard time figuring something out or even if you are looking for something new this site should be able to lead you in the right direction.  Look to the left of the screen and under the heading TOPICS you can find all you need.

Cold Country

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Platinum Pixie Award!!!!

Months ago a close friend of mine Mark Simon, the owner of Fizz City Films here in the Atlanta, submitted our little film into the Pixie Awards. Time passed and I had completely forgotten about it until this morning when I received an email from Mark with the exciting news. WE WON!!! Travis and I were awarded the highest honor for Cold Country by receiving a Platinum Pixie for our work. 

I will be getting more information on everything this week and I will defiantly be posting a picture of the award itself so stay tune! I just couldn't wait to share the good news!!

This is what the award looks like but instead of Gold ours will be Platinum 

Come see
Cold Country
and other amazing films at
ASIFA ATLANTA
(ASIFA) Atlanta - Association Internationale du Film d’Animation 

Local Animation, International Exchange
 

Travis and I will be speaking on a panel about the film along with other amazing animators.

After which the showing of the International Animation DVD will be featured!
Come see all the fantastic animated films that were selected from other countries to be show here in the US as our film COLD COUNTRY represents the south east region overseas!!!!

 

Finished!!

I could sit here and pick at this painting for hours but I think it is finished. I wasn't setting out to do a high detailed painting or anything, just something that I could do to practice working in photoshop.  This image took me a total of 8 hours to do. I worked on it for about 2-3 hours a night for the past few nights before bed just so that I could do something with my day besides 3D work. I am pretty please with the results.

Cooper (my dog) likes the fact that he is now immortalized in a painting..... I think it is getting to his head

Anyways, its late and I am finished for the day.

Progress Update

I still have a little bit more to go but here is what I have done so far. My only fear is that I am painting on a brighter screen and the colors are off but I will fix that near the end of the painting.