'The Carnival of The Animals' now showing at The NEU/NOW Live Festival

Its been a loong hiatus, but one hasn't forgotten the blogosphere. Whilst working on projects (which I hope to share soon), I'm happy to announce that my final year university project, 'The Carnival of The Animals' has been selected to be shown at ELIA's (The European League of Insitutues of the Arts) NEU/NOW Live Festival 2014 held in Glasgow!! ^_^

Check out the festival's website  here, where other works such as film/animation, music, theatre, architecture and visual arts from various countries are participating and showcased.

Hopefully over the next couple of days I'll be able to share my experiences of participating in the festival- watch this space!! ^_^

The Carnival of The Animals: PLUSHIES!!

I've been too excited to share this but to top off this year long project, my characters have been made into soft plushies!! These were awesomely made by Victoria from the US, a massive thank you for all your work!! :D

The Four

Xerces Blue Butterfly

Sea Mink

Eastern Elk

European Sea Sturgeon

The Carnival of The Animals: Books and Business Cards Arrived for New Designers

A little late to post, but these just lot arrived in time before New Designers :D Really happy how these have turned out!

Art of and business cards

The Carnival of The Animals- (Tweaked)

Final tweaked version of The Carnival of The Animals

Major Project: Demo Reel

Life Drawing Class: Week 9

So glad to be getting back into full swing of life drawing. With a new model this time round, Francis, today's lesson is to get loosen up and focus on features and gravity. To start things off, we did four quick sketches around 5 mins each. For this piece I've mainly focused on using charcoal (and a bit of pencil as a warm up on the top left!) :D

Next, it was decided that we should focus more on features or parts that we find the weakest in drawing. For me hands and feet are the hardest to tackle, so for this task we are to focus on our weakest part in drawing body parts for 25 mins. Happy to say I'm quite happy how this turned out! :D 

Later, we are to draw the full body and then focus on our weaknesses more. I drew the left half of the body in pencil, felt tip and charcoal, and on the right in pen. My main focus in this piece is the hand and the feet again, adding more detail than the other parts. This piece lasted for 25 mins.

Lastly, to finish off the lesson we did some quick poses lasting from 4 mins to 1 mins. I've used a thick black felt tip pen just for something different! :D

As part of our assignment, I've done more studies of hands and feet in different poses. 

Match Mover: Auto Tracking

Was meant to post this a while back. It was my first time using Match mover- pretty fun doing the tracking :D

replaced cube with a character :D

original footage (cube)

Minor Project: All Character Turnarounds

Minor Project: The Carnival of the Animals- An Art of

The Carnival of the Animals- An Art Of by jojo610

Minor Project: Rendered Sea Mink basic run cycle

Minor Project: Mink Character Rigged and Skinned!!- Test

It's taken a while but after following tutorials on rigging quadrupeds, a ribbon spine and some humanoid leg joints, the mink is finally rigged!! Rigging this fella was a tad tricky as the limbs worked more like a humans and the spine was slightly more different to making a quadruped's spine. I've taken onboard some pointers from Ethan Shilling, a post-graduate student renowned on advanced rig and maya, on how the rig looks and testing things as I go along. With this in mind, I skinned tested the character a few times to the point that I'm happy with how it looks. The skinning still needs some cleaning up, but I'm too excited in seeing the little guy move that I wanted to animate him for a bit!!

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The rig

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Minor Project: Final Characters Group

With the colour choices made, here are the finalized colours for all the characters. Unlike my animatic, the animals are hardly seen together as a group but doing this helps create a balance between colors that could be used between each character. The next stage now is to start quadruped rigging!! :D

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Minor Project: Xerces Blue Butterfly Rim Lighting Complete

The finalized colour for the Xerces Blue Butterfly

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Minor Project: Sea Mink Rim Lighting Complete

Decided to settle down with a light blue rather than dark blue to even out the red.

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Minor Project: European Sea Sturgeon Rim Lighting Complete

Like the Eastern Elk, the European Sea Sturgeon had its color chosen in the early stages.

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Minor Project: Haast's Eagle Rim Lighting Complete

Made this guy have yellow tones instead of blue just to have him look more bright and goes well with the orange.

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Minor Project: Stellar's Sea Cow Rim Lighting Complete

The Sea Cow was a little bit tricky to work out his colour as originally he had a yellow hue, but orange seemed to work out better for him in terms of standing out from the group. :)

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Minor Project: Easter Elk Rim Lighting Complete

The first of the lot to have its colours chosen from the early stages.

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