Enter the spitfire

For our rockman vid we decided it would be cool to have a spitfire burst into the scene and take him down. here is the first test for having the spitfire enter the scene.

Its all coming together!!!

We recently merged the character into the morgue to see that everything was lining up correctly. here is the result and another one with abit of tweaking in after effects..



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Before:

focus and particles

To give the impression that the rockman is close to the camera I have burred him abit to make him appear out of focus. I also realised that the particles for the second step were infront of the first step particles so I have corrected this. I have also noticed that the shadow is wrong as eb and daves shadows go to the left so I will have to correct this also.

playing with particles

To give the footsteps more realism i have been seeing how to add dust. Here is my first particle test..

morgue maya redo

ok here are some shots of the morgue after being redone in maya and using mental ray to render.

scene 2 test

done some more work to the footprints think it looks abit better now but still alot of work to do........

Texturing spitfire

Dave modelled the spitfire and my job was to texture it so here is a turnaround to show the textures.

foot prints

i have been trying to figure out how to make it appear like the rock man is making dents in the ground as he walks and so far this is what iv come up with. the problem is he looks like hes walking through snow so some refinments are needed.

Painting practice

I recently decided to break out my wacom tablet and do some digital painting just for practice. I didnt do the drawing only the painting see what you think.

Maya crash course

Unfortunatly the morgue which i textured and lit in 3dsmax isnt going to be compatable with the rig eb is using to animate. This meant that I would have to redo it all in maya and fast! heres my attempt so far...

tweaking

When I watched it back I could see that something wasn't right so and I realised I hadn't turned the shadow on. so here the version with he shadow and also I changed the opacity to give the impression the rockman is getting closer. Not sure if I mentioned but the rockman was made by ebnelkim you can check out his blog in my list of artists on the right.

rockman

Today I put ebs rockman into the scene but unfortunatly there was a giant lens flare on the footage so it looks a little strange wheen they ren down hill. anyway heres the result

morgue almost done

today i have been tweaking the lighting and texturing within the morgue and also replaced a couple of the items.

getting there..

started doing some more to the canteen scene just adding details and making changes.

rock man test

a basic test for our sfx project where a giant rock monster will chase dave and eb

THINK!.....after effects keying test

here is a quick test i did using a green screen as seen on videocopilot.net its abit roughbut the pronciples are there.....

tank for war scene

This week i will be creating the war scene so I started by modeling a tank. Here is a render of the tank and an animation of the wheels moving.