Working on a 3D thing? Yeah...

To keep productive over the winter break, I decided to try my hand at 3D modeling again. I already had a 3D model of Toby in the works, so the plan is to finish that, rig it, and then try to animate it.

Only time will tell if everything I'm doing is completely irrevocably absolutely wrong! Oh well.

Here's how it's looking so far:

Pretty neat, huh?

I wanted to give you guys a better picture, with the full body, but turns out my Maya 2010 license expired today! Woohoo! I guess its a good excuse as any to finally download 2012. Haha...ha...

Expect better updates soon.

End of the quarter--- status, Orlando?

Well, guys, it's been some work.

As of the end of Fall quarter, I have every shot animated, which is right about where I wanted to be.
The animation itself is there, but there are a couple of shots (13 comes readily to mind) where I would definitely want to revisit and polish before I deem it ready for clean up.

Coupled with that, some shots would definitely benefit from some in-betweens and breakdowns, so that's pretty much what i'll be focusing on next quarter. Also, I hope to get layouts finalized (thanks to Jina) and music finalized (thanks to Charlie). I also want to see if I can get intro-scene animation done as well (thanks to Jina and Rachel). If all goes well, I might even be able to start on clean up.

As for winter break, I'm kinda hoping to focus on some side-projects, such as finishing a Toby Maya model I've been tinkering on for ages now and maybe getting more some practice on Maya and Flash animating. Portfolio pieces, maybe?

Anyway, I wouldn't want to leave you guys without a final .mov file to look at, so here's how shot 17 looks now:

I'll keep you guys updated on anything Rock Candy related going on over break!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

HAHAHAHA I'M NOT POSTING SHOT 13

Actually I am.
But only because I promised.

Shot 13 is definitely my least favorite of any of these. I animated it without running reference, and I sped through it in the three hours last class.

In any case, it's definitely not the final version. I'll re-animate most of it next quarter. Right now, I wanted to finally finish the last shot that was missing from my film. I can show my professor that yes, I do have every shot animated and ready to be cleaned up, technically.

The rest of this final weekend will be animating more on shots 17, 4, and a few other short ones if I have the time. Right now, my priorities are 17 and 4 just because they're the longest and more complicated ones left (with the exception of 12 and 13).

Til next time, guys!

Shot 12 - newly refurbished!

After some critique, I decided to revisit shot 12 and time it out different.

The order of the tugs and pulls are redone, and there's a couple more in-betweens to smooth the actions out.

Right now, I'm still busy on shot 13, but I hope to post my progress on that over the weekend.

Shot 12- BONUS POST!

Over the weekend, I got along to finally animating shot 12 and 13.

Shot 12 is pretty much at a point where I could work from, and shot 13 has like... two drawings in it.

Anyway, here's how shot 12 is looking so far:

I'm hoping to make quite a lot of progress this week, animating shot 13 and fixing up shots 17 and 4. Possibly 12 if I have the chance.

As always, suggestions and critiques are welcomed and encouraged!

Shot 16 completed!

Spent most of this week furthering shot 16.
Here's how the finished shot came out:

This weekend, I'm gonna be dedicated to finishing shots 12 and 13... mostly because they're the only two I've put off almost entirely. I'll probably be working on them for most of the week as well, haha.

Look forward to seeing those later!

Toby sketches!

A little page of sketches I drew of Toby during short story class.

These aren't exactly masterpieces, but I thought it was worth posting.

Anime Toby needs to chill