Promise render frame

Getting better at rendering.  Here's the look I'm going to go for with my "final" piece of "Promise".

Fixing fixing fixing

Just working away on some past stuff:

https://vimeo.com/53008135

Promise render frame

Ok, so I haven't posted in forever, but life goes on :)  I took a break from animating for a while to focus on my new life, things have been going pretty good on the east coast.  I have recently been working on fixing up some old pieces.  I'm almost done with "Promise", had to clean up the curves, they were so dirty I wanted to cry.  Now I'm working on some polish with the hands, may go into the face afterwards, but since I hate rendering I wanted to set it up now and as soon as I'm done, I can just hit the render button and move forward.  I thought the lighting looked pretty cool, so here's a frame, the colors are a little dulled in this image and there's a couple spots that need fixed, like the light under the door, but that's for another day.

Deal - end of workshop

Here I am at the end of the workshop.  It was fun :)  Still got some work to do on this piece though.

Deal - week 13

More.  I have been told I need to bump up my confidence on these and make decisions before waiting for the critique.  I'm going to try to take that to heart.

Deal - week something or other

Things got hectic lately, but here's where I currently am

Deal wk 9

Deal - More cleanup

This week's attempt.  A few body and leg tweaks, cleaning the head and worked on the arms, but they're giving me a hard time.

Deal - working on the body

Yeah, about a week late to upload this, but this was last weeks, working on the body.  Gotta fix up my mechanics.

Deal - Body clean up

Cleaning up the body and the head now, haven't touched the arms and body still needs a little work I think.

Deal - Root Clean up

This week I focused on cleaning the root, didn't touch anything else, so the body is really poppy and a mess right now.  I worked a lot of the TY, I'm worried it might be too much, we'll see what he says though.

Deal - Second Blocking Pass

Not too terribly different, wasn't feeling well this week so I didn't get to work on it as much as I would have liked.  I broke it down further and fixed up some poses.  Onto splining!

Deal - first blocking pass

Just thought it'd be fun to post the steps of my current animation project - before notes!  I always like looking back at what I did and where I went wrong, so here's the first pass pre-notes.

Promise - idk what pass it is anymore . . .

Just gotta get it approved and rendered now.

pass 5

My fifth pass - getting close to the last, slowly but surely

"Promise" Third pass

Just thought I'd go ahead and post my third pass here.

Promise second blocking pass

Just thought I might post this since I haven't posted in a while.  This is my second blocking pass, the reference is on the side for comparison.  I have been trying to observe it really closely and see what makes it alive and make sure I get the body mechanics right.  I have a long ways to go.