Got Milk… And Cookies!
January 29th, 2010
Loaded up Cinema with cookies and milk in my mind. Aiming to do some serious sub-poligonal displacement and overload that GI with some HDRI’s and everything turned up to max basically! Lol!
It only cost me over an hour of rendering… although the milk is too dark and has some weird artefacts the rest I like! I’m gonna do some photoshop post processing just to get a more polished image.
I wanted loads of detail so I started off with some primitives which were sculpted onto using Mudbox. It was fun messing about with clay again, albeit being digital.
After texturing, lighting and rendering… I had some cookies. Yum!
Gake No Ue No Ponyo
December 29th, 2009
I only just got to watch Ponyo On The Cliff, a 2008 Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Gibli film that’s about this fish girl who fell in love with a boy called Sosuke… she unleashes some strange powers to become human, but also almost destroys the world in the process. Now this is not a review, just an expression of how awesome I though it was.
I’m a big fan of Ghibli films because they’ve always inspired my imagination. They are beautifully animated adventures taking you to far away places that you could only visualize as a child. The desensitized adult in me is transformed back into a kid in a matter of seconds… I never want the films to end, it feels like I could live there forever. My bags were packed when the title showed!
Totoro and Spirited Away both had this same impact on me and Ponyo is no different. Such cute drawings and love / happy themes usually make me go meh, but the execution is so precise, the characters so strange but relatable and animation so believable, I just can’t help but fall in love… again!
The thing that blew me away, was the action sequence with Ponyo surf-riding the fish and just water everywhere, I mean the water in this anime is so cool… you want to dive in and swim… no, run on it! Really, who needs rendered CG particles that simulate physics and fluid dynamics? I can tell you that Ponyo doesn’t!
Bottom line, I want to make stuff like that… It’s too magical and peaceful, yet dangerous and could potentially be disastrous if it wasn’t for the happy ending! Ponyo is just awesome!
Some Painted Artwork
December 22nd, 2009
Said before that I was sick of tablets, but they have their uses. Unlike drawing, something I’ll always prefer to do with a pencil and paper, painting is too messy and slow for me not to be done digitally! So I guess I’m going back on my word? Nah, that was animation, this is painting…
Scuzzball is a comission from The Rage of the Stage Players inspired by my black and white piece Evil Teddy. I promiss I have nothing against, stuffed animals!
And while they have been many projects talked about on this blog, some that didn’t get finished… the next image is a concept artwork for my next film that’s too awesome in my head.
Still in pre-production, and I can’t say anything about it yet, but here’s the main guy (codenamed Moto) sitting on a rock/hill.
Planning to hand animate it, not clear on how to go about doing the backgrounds yet.
Confident Cow
December 10th, 2009
I’ve been working on a learning flash game for a computer training company, Longden Ltd. Game’s just finished… you can play it by clicking below!
Camera Projection Experiment
October 20th, 2009
Wanted to give this Matte Painting thing a quick go. Went and found a breathtaking photo by Macindows on InterfaceLIFT…
… and then made it all 3D like. Just need to fix the over-exposure near the sun, bad textures on the close up and some shitty depth at the far end.
New Camera, D5000
October 18th, 2009
Woo hoo, something to take some quick snaps, textures, sunsets, girls etc… it can shoot 720p video too, so will help for some quick experiments and stuff! Woo hoo!
As you can see, I’m crazy about depth of field effects… this calls for a third woo hoo!
It’s All Good
October 1st, 2009
Got a few projects on the pipeline… still at pre-production stages but it’s getting interesting now! Oh, finished that grenade thing by the way… Cinema 4D is sweeeet!
Granado!
September 8th, 2009
Had a little go at Cinema 4D, in my never-ending quest to learn some new shit! Damn, it’s renderer is so simple, gives you sweet results with so little effort. Check this Granado out:
Started modeling it following this CGTuts tutorial, then went crazy with it!
Messing With Some CSS
July 26th, 2009
Been a while since I last posted on the blog. I been relaxing for a bit, but I think it’s time to get into the action… so I’ve been working on Keynote Entertainment’s website, doing them a WordPress CSS based layout. They got tons of content, all they gotta do now is post it!
NEWGROUNDS Link!
July 1st, 2009
Added sound and music to my film, here’s a NEWGROUNDS link… will add to the Animation page soon!
