Testing the old man rig

These videos show the problems i was having with the old man rig created by Desmond. I couldnt move the feet properly, the ik handle seem to stick where the previous frame was, i think the only way to over come this problem is if Desmond creates a foot manipulator.

CPU is DEAD!!!

Bad news have come to me regarding my computer. the cpu is apparently dead and will need to replaced, they company will be ordering a new cpu for my computer which apparently will take about 3 days. once they get the new cpu my computer will go through a series of testss, to ensure everything is working properly.

FINISHED DISSERTATION!!!!!

WOOOOOOO yeah i have finish the dissertation and its due in for today, believe it or not i have not slept so once i had this dissertation in, i can get some sleep and focus on the film. I must admit the dissertation has completly taken over this 2nd term and since we had the 3 weeks extention, its been eating up into my production time for the film, so i will need to work really hard to complete the film project.

Final Run Cycle Of Army Grunt For Wunderland

To take my mind off dissertation i did the run cycle Adam requested, this is the final version of these runcycles of the Army Grunt.


Wunderland, Army Grunt Run Cycle from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.




Wunderland Army Grunt Run Cycle No 2. from Ash Reemul on Vimeo.

No News ON MY Computer

I ufortunately i have recieved no news on my pc, so for the mean time i have been constantly working on my dissertation as i have had an extension. Also i had some run cycles to do for Adam's film but beacuse of my computer its very hard to do try and get the animation he wants delevered on time to him, i will have to bare through the use of my mum's laptop being slow when using maya.

WHY ME??? BIG TROUBLE

Today has not been a good day at all, my computer is completly dead, its not working properly, windows would not load and it meant that i have lost alot of work even my year 2 work which had some cool animation from my show reel. Thank god that my dissertation was stored on my laptop otherwise i would have had a break down. However which is extremely annoying most of my research images, and prop modelling are not lost because of this. I will now have to try and work on my mums laptop which is not great but at least its something i can use to do my work, i also rang the company from where i purchased my computer from, asking if they can repair it, and that i will urgently need it. I will be sending my pc off to get repaired tomorrow.

Adding the joints

As Adam Smith has UV the character already, i decided to delegate the texturing for the waiter to Ross because we want the characters to be in the same style, and as Ross has textured the old lady already and knows what style we are going for, i left it to him. So this leaves me to enjoy the task which i hate so much, RIGGING. Today i simply layed the joints within the mesh.

Blend Shapes

wooo Blend shaping fun. i did some blend shapes for the cafe waiter character for our film Cafe de beginet, which was modeled by Adam Smith. This character does not require much blend shape like the old woman because he does not appear in the film that much, he is a background character.

One thing that i did which was new with blend shaping which i never used to do was the use of the softmod tool, it made some of mouth pieces a bit easier however it was still very hard to accomplish. I enjoy blend shaping for some reason, i remember i did some blendshapping for my captain london project, so i think i have very good knowledge and experience with Blend shapping.