Storyboard 1 due T 2/7: info

You will need to have SB drawings as separate pieces of paper or index cards as discussed in class.  Then you can add or remove drawings easily during reviews in class.  (If you have SB as a series of small thumbnails ALSO that is fine for trying out ideas.)

skin weight painting

Found a "shortcut" to weight painting...press CONTROL and then paint; it removes the influence from areas where you don't want it.

I'm now at the point where Heather was during class Thursday, with crazy vectors pointing everywhere. Any tips?

Shading Tutorials.

Hey guys, sorry for the late post.

Here's the tutorials for shading.

• UV Mapping: http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=1169#.TxZNJ9XQcoN

• *(Edited) Tilable cloth texture to play with: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4314743/4113028538_4aafff88b2_o.jpg

Remember by next week I'd like to have:

• The arm rigged and skinned with the hand following.
• An accessory that you modeled 'parent constrained' onto the moving arm.
• A shader for the arm/hand that has: a painted surface, plus a displacement attached.

The level of intricacy you apply is up to you. As long as you have something you'll be on the right path to being 3D pros.

Thanks guys. Email me if you have any problems/issues

Jessica's Story

It's been raining for days, no sun has come out in a long time. A potted sunflower sits on an old wooden table directly in front of a window that overlooks countryside (hay or corn field, etc.). "He" hangs his head, upset that his petals have begun to fall & those left behind are beginning to wilt, all because the sun hasn't come out. At the moment there is an overcast light hitting the sunflower.

Turning point:

It begins to change to a more yellow/sun light that is shining through the window. The sunflower barely raises his head to look out the window. So excited with the hope of some sunlight, he gets really close to the window, pushing his petals and leaves (2 as his "hands", will post picture of this scene later) up against the window. The light gets brighter and he is filled with joy. The music breaks into a fun, playful beat that the sunflower starts dancing to as a reaction to the light.

a resurrection story

A frozen human figure is trapped in stone, and exists in an ethereal and simple world. It is as if the figure were between two mirrors facing each other, with smaller figures just like it fading into the background. It is an art piece, or so we think, and we move more closely in to admire the figure closest to the foreground. As we close in, we see that it is a person struggling to break free from the stone that entraps it. Its neck muscles strain and stretch, its arm and legs tense and seize. The repeating figures do the same.

The endeavor seems to be all but a lost cause, but then the stone faults. Crumbled pieces of marble lay at the figure's feet, and it steps out of the space it was trapped in. The figures ascend through and to another plane, literally lifting themselves up through a floor, defying the laws of physics. Triumphantly, they turn their gazes upward to something unseen.

Heather's Story

Open to a TARDIS-like creation sitting under a jacaranda tree. The setting is calm and serene. The jacaranda flowers have fallen all around the TARDIS . Birds chirping, or some other calming noise, can be heard in the distance. Out of nowhere, a magpie swoops in and rams the TARDIS. The TARDIS leaves the tree and goes through a series of various "wrong places," for example, on a train track with a train approaching. The last scene the viewer sees a wide view of a baseball game. You can hear all the crowd noise. You hear the crack of a bat. The ball hits the side of the TARDIS. Zoom in on the ball and hear the TARDIS door open. Hand picks up the ball. Fade to black.


Also, just in case anyone is curious: Wikipedia pages for the TARDIS and Doctor Who.

Pics and Words

Some good preliminary drawings Tuesday –
Flower pressed against window, etc.
Storyboard 1 ready for class next T 2/7. 
Change to original post:  So much to do, don't worry about posting images to blog just yet.