Sunday Again??

Had a full on week marking 1st & 2nd years work so this has left me no time to concentrate on any projects. Just seen this advert for the Winter Olympics >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2010/jan/22/winter-olympics-promo-bbc

An animated adventure to promote the Winter Olympics, incorporating snowboarding, the ski jump – and curling. Created by ad agency RKCR http://www.rkcryr.com

Some pretty cool stuff, some adverts that you will recognise.

Just did my first session of my 5 week City&Guilds Photoshop & illustrator, a good bunch of students that were quite reserved but I think I got them quite into it as the day went along. still not sure about working Saturdays though :(

Plans for this week is to create a fully rigged character that is easy to build, rig and animate for the 1st years, I've been studying loads of tutorials, found some new tricks that I think may work, but I have to put this to practice. Going to watch the animated film '9' about the sack people, don't know much about it but I absolutely love the look and style of it:)

Sunday's Up

No Real creativity today, but I was experimenting with an arm rig in C4D, worked really well for once ;) also looking more into Mograph, there is some real good tutorials out there. Just found this site http://www.artcom.de there commercial developers, who just made an interesting documentary on the Berlin wall that was all made in Cinema 4D!!

Just watched UP loved it!! the animation was class and as always gets your mind thinking, I noticed though that Disney always show Blood? Also got 9 to watch not the one with penelopi cruz (grrr) but the animation about the sack people, watched the first 10mins and loved it animation, models, concept fantastic!!

Man Flu got the better of me : Def Con-2

Been a non productive night for me, a long day teaching with the lurgy has made me just chill tonight though I did just burn some of my animations and show:real onto DVD to see what it looked like on the big telly, all looks good but made me want to make something new that is really finished and full of new animation and compositing techniques. I did look at the pictoplasma website as a few friends are going this year, but I think my wedding plans get in the way so I better not go especially after just getting back from New York then hopping on a plane to berlin I think the mrs to be will kill me ;0 www.pictoplasma.com an excellent festival full of creativity!! Someone should start this in Newcastle!!!

Just a quick test of Mo for tonights Blog... Ive used the depth of feild on this shot which I think Im going to use throughout the inside shots, as In the space shots it blurs the background too much but as you can see it gives some nice depth to Mo. Ive just sussed the hi-rarky of ataching a subject to a rigged construction, just add your object in the last bone and this will move with the rigg (look at the 303 in his right arm) Well Im comin down with man flu so enough 3d and time for bed:)

Finally sussed a decent way to rig Mo's telescopic arms, this has been troubling me for a while, just because I wanted it A, to work and B, to look realistic in the movement. After studying a few tutorials I adapted the rig to work. Its not perfect as there are a few creases when moved into certain positions but will look good in the animation. For the hands or claws I used Dave's morph tag theory, which works perfect for its purpose. I really chuffed about this but I'm still waiting to shoot some video which will be mapped onto the Sentinel One head.

Meteor Explode

A quick test of the Meteor explode, the meteor was rendered out of Cinema 4D as it has the base on it you cant see yet, but you may at the start. The rest of the explosion was created in after effects, I followed a tutorial on my favorate site http://www.videocopilot.net/ any one who wants to really go for it with after effect should do some tutorials with this guy!! Although I followed the tutorial there was added FX's from previous knowledge of this program. This is no way the final peice but close to what I am trying to create for the music video, though it seems I have killed us all off at the end of the vid:( well Mo & Sentenal One.

Im still having trouble uploading images or vids on this site???

There seems to be internet problems all over Ive been trying to upload videos and images, plus music to other sites and there is a problem with all media players or upload????

Must be the snow!

Have not really been to creative today as I have a gig tonight as Tokyoacidcru. Were doing sort of a live set with our own tracks and playing drum machines over the top with a 303 as well.

I was going to do some visuals but yet again time has caught up with me.

I was going to post some screen shots of the meteor explode I have just done but I think ill work on it more over the weekend to get the timing perfect and add more after effects :)