http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite Rather Ridiculous - VIZA 613, VIZA 652 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click To Play What more can I say? Comments are on the Blip TV file. Click it! Okay I have a few comments after all: I couldn't get the ear control object to work. It only worked in the Z rotation. That was ok, though, because it conveyed enough emotion. I also ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/169 Click To Play This is part of the final project with Igor. http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/168   Done with simply parenting and not bones... it's a static model anyway, and I didn't apply IK... for the final I will of course be using some sort of skeleton and rigging. I went the easy route after trying for a couple of hours to use a skeleton and for ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/167 No shading. No lighting. No background. This is the model. It is low poly. It is going to have a glowing tail and eyes, with mostly white and grey plastic and metallic components. Comments? http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/165 These are the two most important references from the previous post. http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/163 Haven't decided yet whether I want him to be pouncing up or down. Up is probably easier. Here, have some reference!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwcd1Wk8T8&NR=1 -- the best one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ol3XSvoIxg&NR=1 -- the second-best, since the jump goes off the screen. From the opposite direction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpaU_xvQmPk&NR=1 -- this one's a 'fraidy cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-SMbblxhpM -- not so great ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/162 ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/160 Click To Play This is the real deal. Finally I put some lighting in there and even a bathtub to set the scene. And got a good camera angle on it. I started using the actual squash deformer, here I'm using two deformers, one for the stretch, which I am rotating ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/159   Here's my first sketch! Haven't done any orthos yet. Might go straight to the model, though, since it's pretty simple and I can figure out the geometry better in 3D sometimes anyway. http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/157 Click To Play I zoomed in and edited the squashing and stretching amount a bit. Does it look better? http://blogs.tamu.edu/meganite/archives/156