blue bird & vines fixed
After much encoder wrangling, the screencap cam out.
BIRD RIG: wing & leg
Shows parts of the rig, wings & legs. The challenge was the character required more cartoonish flexibility, and while working non of my colleagues made a bird rig before so I was left exploring whatever problems I’d find.
Im quite surprised why I made 60+ shelf scripts (mostly MEL) just for the BIRD. And a few arent just short tool scripts. I’d need to organize and improve the scripts/rig into a better package as usual.
An “industry standard” is often to rig/animate in Maya, but keep the feathers and its complex motions to Houdini particles. Here I’m just attempting a simple & fast maya feather method. But because most renderers slow down with numerous transparent geometries, the sw isn’t too fast. I can try tweaking the renderer if feathers can look good enough for the bird.
Next up is the facial rig, which used the majority of script tools.
VineGrowth fixed
Also fixed the vineGrowth presentation, pardon if the previous vine video caused more seizures than Pokemon!
a few weeks…
At the same time I’m trying to focus on a career path, and learning a wider range of CG/web. I don’t get my oxymoron situation. It’s something in the realm of null, 0.? and 1+. I’ve too many 0.? or half-baked skills, and some have a negative apparent value. So I’m planning to level up my website to acceptable levels, since it’s a required part of either CS or CG. And at least know how to create cloth (on character) & hair, basics of effects. Then coding and houdini could be worth training for ++ levels.
I forgot about modeling…ok maybe some more of everything…
Houdini dailies
Recent Houdini learning dailies:
playlist
lastest video:
demoreel – animation
work in progress
need rerender stuff, replace with better clips
demoreel – fx|script
More of my recent work. It’s missing ~2 recent items, but I’ll append it in time.
demoreel
The fx|script demoreel is updated. As previous reels had apparent errors, I believe this is my first presentable reel.
It’s on http://www.gophercg.com.
inkLogo r01
I should probably reverse playback so smoke grows into the logo text.
Learning more about afterEffects, glad my comping skill is improving a bit.
Water Drip r01
demoreels
I’ve made two demoreels so far, both work in progress. There’s some clips to fix and rerender.
You’ll see it on my site: http://www.gophercg.com
Or here:
demoreel – fx|script on blip.tv
demoreel – animation on blip.tv
JW player embedded update
Originally for a company reel presentation. I’ve made a local version sample portfolio SWF.
Select any from the side menu to play. Notice I tweaked the original JW fullscreen function so it expands from the embedded SWF onto the parent SWF. Fullscreen pretty much acts like youtube.
It’s not my real reel (you won’t find it…yet), just a random sample.
And the updated tutorial’s here:JW player embedded tutorial
