Massive Summer Update!!!

I've been very busy this summer between an internship, working on this film and running around with friends from home that I haven't had time to sit down and update this blog. So here it all is:

Leo

So for Leo, I had to retopologize his whole body because we ran into some issues with the blendshapes, plus I wanted to adjust his face a bit. Here's what we have now:

(also look at dat butt, I mean it's pretty sweet)

My knowledge from retopologizing the tree definitely came in handy, I don't know where I would be at if I didn't make myself learn how to before. I also learned a lot about UV mapping. I used 3D Coat to both retopologize and UV everything because I don't have the tools I usually have at school while at home. I must say though, 3D Coat is a really awesome software, especially since you can get a lot out of the free trial! Right now he is being rigged and should be ready for some basic testing very soon.

Tree

Oh man is the tree looking incredible! I was excited when the modeling was finished, but I'm even MORE excited now that the textures and clouds are really coming together!!

I mean look at this thing!!!!!! It's absolutely gorgeous and the fact that you can tell it's metallic makes me so ecstatic! My texture artist is seriously amazing, I'm so glad he's helping me on this project.

And this is the moment everyone has been waiting for (whoever you are): CLOUDS!!!! Look at that broccoli! I'm just kidding but that's what I think of whenever I see this, really colorful broccoli. But doesn't this look so neat?! The second picture is going more towards the direction that I want it in, more transparent and cloud-like. Right now, my team is working on some renders of the textured tree together with the clouds as well as testing out some billowing movement through the clouds.

Everything is really coming together. I've gotten some more feedback on the 3D animatic and there are some changes it's going to go through but once that's done I'm probably going to lock down the shots for good and it's straight on to animating! Thanks for stopping by!