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.

Animation: Cup Fill

I'm still not hitting much luck. I think I have a mental block today because I just cant knack this. This video is meant to show a liquid pouring into a cup, but the liquid in the scene isn't so 'liquidy', it's more of a sludge. On the possitive side of things, the cup is successfully filled, the liquid raises as more enters the cup, and has rotation, possibly too much though. I used blobmesh in this one, but it hasn't worked out too well, as the liquid is actually blobby, I think it could work if i just reduced some parametres. I used a vortex to create the rotation and a uDeflector once more, this time combined with a 'collision' value from the paricle view. The particle system used was PF Source.