Fuzzy fuzzy cute cute

So my housemate's girlfriend's house seems to be the animal hub at the moment. They have some cats that have taken residency in their back garden so I took my camera round to see if I could get any decent pictures. I managed to get a really cute one of one of the kittens, Sheldon. Shortly after I looked after Bubbles (her bunny), and then she brought round her cat Cookie for a night. Needless to say, I was on cute overload. 

Sheldon

Bubbles

Cookie

Walk in the New Forest.

So me and Alan went for a walk in the New Forest as a break away from the 4th Year workload, accompanied by Murphy his dog. We had a very interesting walk back to the car when we encountered a few horses. One took a shining to Murphy and we witnessed a very surreal moment between the two. The horse was hilarious and kept pulling various faces... who knows why. 

They stayed like this together for a good 20 minutes or so.

Brighton.

A few snaps from a weekend down in Brighton. I love this place, and I love these people.

Modelling Assignment - 24's Helmet

Here is the current progress of his hat/helmet. Made out of the ends of a watch strap, and a baseball that's been cut in half. Still have alot of work to do on it, but just getting a feel for the overall sizing to see what works. Having the straps move dynamically will give him more life when I eventually get to animate him. 

Modelling Assignment - 24 Progress

These are the images I submitted for handing in the modelling (although this was more a milestone hand in than a final submission). The items on the ground are a few bits and bobs I modelled to go into his backpack. 

I still need to model his hat/helmet thing. I shyed (sp?) away from the idea of the skull because it would resemble '8' too much and I wanted to be a bit more creative.

 I have loved modelling this guy though... have learnt so much in such a short amount of time. Please click to enlarge the images to see them in their full glory. 

Modelling Assignment - 24 Progress

Put in some quick lighting to see how he is looking. Here are a couple of the renders I did. It is coming along nicely, cannot wait to put textures on him though. I am in a constant battle in my mind whether to model in the detail or save it until the texturing stage. 

Modelling Assignment - Modelling Progress

Here are a few WIP images of the 24 character being modelled. 

Modelling Assignment - 24 Concept

I drew this up in Photoshop with the aid of some reference I took of myself (standing in the same pose in my living room...) 
Gives a pretty good idea of how I want him to look. Some aspects may change when it comes to actually creating him but that's a given. If I can get this right, I will have a piece of work that I will be very proud of. 

Onto modelling!

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Modelling Assignment - 24

So for our modelling assignment we have to create a character that is based on one of the existing characters from the film '9' by Shane Acker. I was assigned the number 24. I had to come up for a personality for him and his aesthetics.

I have decided that he will be an adventurer type character, who is also resourceful within the wastelands that he finds himself in. 

Here is a quick facial concept and collage I created to help visualise the end result. 

Main Project - Concert Scene Rough Layout

Just a quick layout of the concert scene... definitely not final. Inspiration taken from an existing concert hall. I am unsure of the final camera angles and lighting so I may need to add further details but I will leave that for a later stage in the process. For now... here is what I have!

Main Project - Characters

Meet the cast!  In concept form...

Main character as a child

Main character as young adult (in concert)

Main character as middle aged man

Main Project - Storyboards

A few images from my initial storyboards for main project. After some feedback I have adapted the layout of the story so will need to redo these. Once I have a proper animatic I will upload onto here for feedback.

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Main Project - Office Environment

So one of my scenes for my final project, takes place in an Office Cubicle. I have tried to model everything within it as accurately as possible so that the detail shows up when it's nicely lit. I am going for a Monsters Inc look, so a mix between high detail modelling and realistic, but not photo realistic texturing. 

I still have to model a mouse, the cables and some paperwork. But the main bulk of it is done. 

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Old school computer

Trusty Stapler

Computer Chair - Underside

Computer Chair - Finished

Floppy Disk! (This was alot of fun to model)

Main Character - Final

Here is the final character model for the Middle-Age man, excluding the hair and eyebrows however. 

Fairly happy with him, can't wait to see him textured and under some lighting. 2 more characters to go...