A a few months ago an old high school teacher contacted me, asking me if I would be willing to make a video for a non-profit organization in New York she currently works for. The non-profit organization is called Opening Act, and they bring after school theater programs to underprivileged schools all around New York City. Naturally, I said I'd be happy to do it! More experience for me!
The video took about 4 weeks of emails, phone calls, revisions, approvals, and spell checks to create.
Because their 9am to 5pm is my 6am to 2pm, and I'm a college student that likes to sleep in, most of the communication was done via email.
Overall, I would say collaborating long distance didn't turn out to be too much trouble.
It was a pleasure working with Gina Grandi, Suzy Myers, Marie Anderson, and Kate Perkins.
A new rig I've been messing around with! A face control system using all skin weighted joints. The only blend shapes used were for the sneer line and cheek puff. I'll tell ya, the balancing was a paaaaain! But I definitely learned a lot. Ideally, I'd like to use this guy for the rest of my 3D animation exercises once he's finished
It's been a while, but now finals week (month) is over!
Welp, here ya go! My running work-in-progress short film, Solitary. Sorry, none of it's rendered so it's not going to look so pretty. This is the version that was shown during the CSUF film festival last week. Right now I'm in the mood where I JUST WANT TO GET IT DONE! Flaws and all. My main focus over the summer is to finish it so I can go on to the next thing.
BLAH! I went to edit/add something to my last post, and somehow blogger decided to delete it all.
Oh well.
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OKAY! First, here's some drawings from last week. Most of them are from the airport. Terminals are a great place to draw people in the wild! And my old printer/scanner has finally knonked out on me, so please excuse the awkward photography
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As for the Solitary project, I'm just trying to crank out as many scenes as I can. Animation has taken priority over everything else. I want to have some solid animation to try and submit to the Dreamworks Critique in a few weeks. After I finish current scene however, I'm going to finally give him some clothes using wrap deformers. It ain't nCloth, but hey-- I'm on a deadline! I also want to submit some nice footage to the film festival, so I'm going to worry about lighting and rendering before nCloth. So wrap deformers will have to do for now. I'm also going to apply some painted textures right quick before next week.
So the animation portion of my 353 prject is coming along.
A while ago I got some lighting help from CG guru Chris Emersion. Just 10 minutes with that guy and I figured out how I'm going to light most of my film! NOICE! Many thanks to him!
I usually end up using my rig as a means to procrastinate.
