Flit done

ok so i haven't been posting anything my bad. i have had flit almost done for quite a while now but i had a few things to tweak and the skin to finish. really i was just procrastinating. anyway here he is. i might rig him next term or whenever. we'll see. there are several things i might go back and tweak later if i have time.

flash final

the first steps in a large background for my flash final. must say i love it so far.

there he is Flit in all his wonderfulness. still tweaking to do of course. there's always tweaking to do. still now that he has both halves of himself, he's looking so much more complete then he did before.

i have been doing things i swear.

i haven't been posting here that much mainly because what I've been working on for the most part has been the comic and that get's posted on it's own site. the good news is that that's done now or at least the Halloween arc is i still need to figure out when i'm going to start the next chapter. I've also worked on Flit though i don't have any pictures. it's coming along nicely. though now that it's November and Nano is taking up my time as well i don't know how things will go.

...well

this is one of those days where giving up looks real nice.

I need more sleep.

sigh

responsibilitys

the thing about collaborations is that you have no control beyond your own part in the project. this can get stressful when people agree to do more then they can actually get done.

Flit

Well i've finally gotten around to working on flit. before i was having trouble with the pictures, in the book it says t0 use a front and a side view, and i was doing fine with the side view but i couldn't manage to draw him from the front, at least not while standing, i can draw him sitting down from the front but that's not what i needed. then today i realized i didn't need to draw him from the front just from a diferent viewpoint, so i drew him from the top and that worked great. then i just need to remember to select and move groups of verts rather then trying to move them one at a time and it worked until Maya decided to stop working.
so i didn't get the whole three hours done, only two and a half. at least i'm farther along then i was.

some scans for Halloween

some scans for the Halloween arc.

The comic Plan

Ok for the comic class i'm going to be working on a collaborative project with two of my friends.
the finished project will be a ten to twelve page comic centered around Halloween. I will be designing the characters as well as doing the formatting and line work. my two friends will be scripting and coloring the arc.

Characters:
the main character is a young girl, she is seen in the beginning in a frilly dress but most of the time she is in an overlarge sweatshirt, rubber boots and a bird mask. she has long wavy hair and curls framing her face.

the next character is a little boy with black hair. his costume is a crocodile suit that is reminiscent of Dino pajamas. the hood hangs down his back and the tail drags behind him on the ground.

our antagonist is a tall man is a smiling mask. his body is overly long. he has long matted black hair and is wearing tails. he is smiler to Jack Scelington (sp?)

the other characters are all children dressed in various costumes, A knight, a flower, an angel, a witch, a ghost, and others. the personalities of these children are contradictory to their costumes. the angel is mean the which is nice ect.

refrences for Flit

the closest real animal to flit is a cat, he's about the same size and apart from the ears and tail he's built like a cat, so here are some cat pictures.

stuff from my scetchbook

like the title says.

a better picture of Flit

it's not colored but the proportions are better.

The Plan

Ok here is the plan for my project.
As soon as they get the computers up i'm going to start building Flit in Maya.

My goal is to build and rig a low poly model of Flit for a game environment.
if i finish early i plan to build a landscape for him to play in, and start animating jumps a run cycle, and other things like that.

Flit:
flit is a small purple creature. his body structure is smiler to a cat but he is leaner with slightly longer legs and a tail like a lions. his ears are closer to a rabbits then a cats.

ok that's not the best picture but but there it is and there are plenty of pictures of him in the comic so go look at The Realm of my Roommates Closet (link in sidebar)

what i'm into right now

right now i'm into two very different things. Digimon, and Final Fantasy VII.
Digimon because i used to watch it when i was feeling nostalgic, that and I like little kid things.
Final Fantasy because i've been meaning to play that game forever and I'm finally getting around to it. Also the old-school graphics have got me thinking....

Elfwood

I found the elfwood site while looking for Halloween art, a lot of good stuff. reference
http://www.elfwood.com/

insperation

I've always loved otherworldly tings and landscapes are my specialty. the way some people can figure out how to put the normal next to the strange and make it seem normal, or right is amazing.

not quite dreaming

you know how ideas always seem to turn up at the most random of times like when you're on the verge of sleep, that happened to me last night. two characters that i had completely forgotten about popped into my head. i ended up writing about them until way later then i should have been up. the best part, i still don't even know their names, or if they have names for that matter. for now they are being called the Crocodile king and his friend. the king is about 6 and the friend is about 10 or 11. they're going to star it this years Halloween arc for the closet.

the girl with red hair

another bit of fiddling with flash

Flash test

this is my first movie fiddling around in flash.

Dave Matthews band

i love good music. Music is one of humanity's greatest creations. i don't understand how so many people can go without it. The Dave Matthews Band are my current favorite. especially a song called funny the way it is, in their newest album, big whiskey and the GrooGrux king. that whole album is good but that song is amazing. it made my short list the first time i heard it.

i guess i never really thought about how music is as inspiring as artwork or anything else.

just stop

all that abstract stuff hurts my brain, not to mention my eyes. way too many colors way too fast. don't get me wrong i love colors i don't like stuff that only a high person could understand.

self portrait

a self portrait done in photoshop, I love that program. :)

Old stuff

i found some old photoshop projects so i thought i'd post them.

experiments

I was bored so I've been experimenting with different types of fields of force the top one is a vortex field the next is a newton field and the last is an air field

it might be done

well here it is there might be a few things i need to tweak but overall it is done.

goals

I never really put my goals up here for the fountain so here goes.

i want to create a model of the square in front of the library.

i have the basic outline done and I've animated the fountain. I need to add details to the buildings and texture them i need to make several decisions in regard to the library itself. First do i want to show the back of the library? If so what is the design of the library overall? What is the scale of the library in comparison to the other buildings? In regard to the other buildings. What is the purpose of each building? should they have a uniform design? what is my color pallet?

I have a basic model of each building in relation to the other buildings. My plan is to enlarge these and add detail individually to each building in it's own file then combine them all into one file. i haven't tried anything like that before so i don't know if it will work properly but, well, we'll find out. i know several buildings are going to be cafes, i have one table/chair set for outside these, but depending on the stile choices i may decide to make another. I also need to consider the use of crates and other random things for behind the buildings and in the allies and such. I need to decide how I'm going to limit the seine or whether I'm going to leave it open to add to later. I could potently make the entire city eventually.

on another note i want to try making Flit to run around in the city. i think if I'm working on my own creature I'll be more inspired to make it look and move right.

the fountain, just a random render, i need to figure out how to get it to render my particals. oh well at least i have textures now.

fountain V2

i manage to get the particles to bounce off the rims of the fountain and this happens...



so i adjust the size of the base and tune things down a bit.


i adjust the rate of the emitter a bit more and it's fixed.

fountain

well i got one of the fountains kind of working....

it glows

my planets glow! as you can see i have changes the fountain. i spent most of today doubling the size of everything and building a set of tables and chairs for the cafes. those are invisible right now.

this is a shot I'm going to try to work into the comic. that building in the back is the library of Tanisburg. i couldn't get the angles wright when i tried to sketch it so I'm built a model in Maya and I'm going to work of that.

scater

another random experiment.

Dominoes

forget Lt.Dan this is awesome. Maya has a dynamics engine. It can simulate gravity, friction, anything i tell it to this is what i was looking forward to when I signed up. Hello simulated planets, I am your god Mwahahahaha

well, i finally figured out how to save my maya stuff as movie files.
the problem is that the camera isn't the same as my viewpoint so the angle isn't quite right

guess what.
I can't put songs on here. pictures and videos but no songs.
see I've been listening to "my calling" feedbacks theme song constantly, so i wanted to post it.
but i can't.
grrrrrr

check this out, you can do anything with 5 keyframes.

I think it might be done....