A week before deadline

Rigging was more complicated than I thought. I built a basic skeleton and change some things in character design such as adding foot and tail for the bird. Now rigging tail is my problem. I want it automatic move when the body moves. I found a tutorial about rigging a cat tail and I will do the same to my character's tail.
I have some paper works need to be done and still have two more character sheets.
So my plan from today till deadline is:
- Finish rigging, binding the bird at this weekend.
- Finish paper work and character sheets before Tuesday.
- Then from Tuesday: Animation and texture.

Bird progress

Should I make legs for the bird?

Few updates.
That's my first character is done so far.

The beak was made split from body and I will do morphing for the beak.








My targets for next week.
- Saturday 15/10: The bird modeling will be done. Look at the photo above i just need to make wings so i think it's not hard to get it done. The beak's bird is not complete so this is the second thing I have to be done on Saturday.
- Sunday 16/10: Morphing the beak.
- Monday 17/10: Modeling the balloon. Actually the balloon just have to create a face, because the body shape is easy. I wonder if making balloon face in 3D or drawing in After Effects or Flash.
- Tuesday 18/10: Rigging the Bird.

Ok. Just it for now.
- I have 2 model sheets have to finish. One about characters in scene and one about facial expressions.

AD208

After 4 weeks back to school, i didn't do anything much. I don't wanna excuse so I am going to speed up from now. Try my best for this year.

I have to say that I didn't finish AD203 yet. Some writing works and the second character sheet need few more to be done. I try to finish all of them this weekend.
AD208 module start this week. I was doing research about charater animation and this is some examples I looked at.


Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.


Gluko & Lennon ENG from Gluko & Lennon on Vimeo.


"Sky High" from birg on Vimeo.


Clinic - Bubblegum from Alasdair & Jock on Vimeo.


Kopparberg Hummingbirds / Exotic from Anima Boutique on Vimeo.


Cosmic Jungle (extract) from brunet martin on Vimeo.

my character

bird evaluation 

The Behance Network

S/M/L

Doomed - El Senor

Doomed - English Trailer from El Señor Studio on Vimeo.

Better together - Friends with you









Pyramid Attack. from Pyramid Attack! on Vimeo.


GUERRILLA GARDENERS from NOMINT on Vimeo.

just watch it by chance

Sayonara from Eric Bates on Vimeo.
I do love this style. Absolutely brilliant! Much more brilliant when watching 'making of video'. It's clear my thoughts about how to create the style. I can see it mixing of 3D character and 2D in compositing but  I still wonder how the process is done exactly. Very thankful the guy who made video because of uploading it.


Making of Sayonara from Eric Bates on Vimeo.