A Nice Cup Of Tea

So I realise it has been a very long time since I last posted anything, I'm not promising I'll be putting it all up but I'll try. Anyway here is my submission for 'A Nice Cup Of Tea', had to rush the last few scenes but overall I'm fairly happy with it.

Seminar: Spine Rigged (clone love)

Rigged the spine, everything went fine, had one hickup where I added the controllers as bones in the skin, which baffled me for a while as I didn't realise I did it, but I sorted that pronto. Thought I would break away from the 360 degree view videos I have been putting up and instead rendered some clone loving. Enjoy.

Seminar: Leg Rigged with Bones

Buggered this up a little by misplacing the ankle, but here we are:

Seminar: Basic Man with Hands and Face

Todays seminar task. Mucked up the ears a little bit, oops.

3D World: January 2010 [P1]

Just a list of the companies that had work mentioned inside of the magazine and what I found out when I chased them up.

Air-CGI produce brilliant Visualisations, they create photo-realistic models (prominantly of cars) but integrate them perfectly with real captured footage, meaning if you didn't know any better then you wouldn't have a clue of the CGI's presence.

Moving Picture Company have a piece featured called Kerry LowLows 'Mouse', which I am sure you have all seen and would agree that the animation is ace. But there's more where that came from, they have a long list of animation and VFX clients, and as well as having produced amoungst the best TV Commercials I have seen they have also produced VFX for the following films:

• GI Joe. The Rise of Cobra
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  
• Night at the Museum 2
• Watchmen
• Narnia, Prince Caspian
• Sweeney Todd
• James Bond: Quantum of Solace
• 10,000 BC
• Angels and Demons
• Surrogates
• Dorian Gray

These are just the lastest, the list of films is massive and worth a look at. This company is huge and has branched into a lot of different areas regarding 3D. They are present in TV Broadcasting, Commercials, Films and Digital. They also have a 2D department.

Passion Pictures appear to be in a similar field to MPC, being quite prominant in commercials, not however breaking into film just yet. They are features for a piece called Coke Zero's Happy Kingdom, which I might add is brilliant, and is done by a man called Pete Candeland. When looking at the Passion Pictures Showreel I couldn't help but notice my absolute favourite advert, the latest from comparethemeerkat. I hope they turn this into a move, I love it. Oh, and the man responsible is Darren Walsh.

Tyson Ibele

Just looked up Tyson Ibele because of a plugin he did for max (building generator), and he is absolutely awesome. He's only a couple of years older than I am, and amazing with max. He does both visualisation and animation, and has been learning how to use 3D software since 2000. So maybe 9 years from now I'll be as awesome as he is. Here's some of his work:

Seminar: Basic Man Shape

The task from todays seminar.