Caitlin's MFA Blog

Week 5- Lots of changes

2010-05-05T12:52:00.000-07:00

Okay I've re-hauled my animatic once again and hopefully it's readable now. I also added some sound cues as well, but they might be on the loud side and overboard.

Week 4: Changes Changes Changes

2010-04-28T10:52:00.001-07:00

New stuff!

Revised

2010-04-23T13:23:00.000-07:00

Re-edit of film

2009-09-23T09:51:00.000-07:00

I finally got it up!!

2009-09-22T12:42:00.000-07:00

2009-09-09T15:27:00.000-07:00

Rigging Rigging...Hawk wings are Go ^^

2009-09-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

I'm getting some weird material issue with the eyes. This is a later version of the frog rig- In this version when I try to set the new materail to the eyes the whole eye changes to that texture.

I can join the club in render issues yay! TT.TT

2009-08-18T09:04:00.000-07:00

Sticking in the frog....no shine though T.T

2009-08-04T09:51:00.000-07:00

Shine and vines and rocks and more grass

2009-07-28T10:17:00.000-07:00

I found the trapcode for shine and currently playing around with it.

Forest jungle

2009-07-21T08:35:00.001-07:00

How do you exclude objects from certain lights?

Jungle ^^

2009-06-16T13:23:00.000-07:00

New feathers and new tex for snake

2009-06-09T13:12:00.000-07:00

2009-06-02T13:09:00.000-07:00

2009-05-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

My toon shader on my hawk body and my hawk feathers which I believe are a blinn, are not meshing well...>.O

working ^^ and testing

2009-05-19T13:12:00.001-07:00

Colors! ^^

2009-05-12T13:03:00.001-07:00

2009-04-28T13:01:00.000-07:00

2009-04-21T12:43:00.000-07:00

I'm still sick today...I've been sick since Saterday afternoon!

Here's what I got done. I uv all the frog and finished both models. I haven't the chance to uv the hawk yet. Uving is taking longer than I had expected...But it'll be done soon.

AlsoI did'nt know if you got my render of my box yet so here's another shot of it.

Hey Andrew do you have a class you teach this week besides today? I would like to meet up with you to show you my models first hand.

Test movie

2009-04-14T13:16:00.000-07:00

Test animation I did in flash. This was just to see what textures, colors, and my characters would look like. It's a test opening as well....

Crap Week >.O

2009-04-14T12:57:00.000-07:00

Well talk about taking a step foward and several back. So I'm still working on my frog because while unwrapping it I realized the insided got all screwed up so here I am redoing it. >.<''

I don't thing my schedule I set up is ruined just delayed. Just more late nights to catch back up.

Here are the rest of the concept art.

Update on Story, Character Concepts, Model List, and Enviroments

2009-04-07T11:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had Jeff Paul sub for our class and he went over our stories. In short, my original script and idea is TOO grand. So, after much grumbling, I agreed. It's something I kind of always knew but didn't want to admit since I've done so much work on it already. So From yesterday on I've been cutting off any extra fat and trying to clean up on the story so that it's short and sweet, but still keeping the heart of what I had.

Doing this made me cut 2 evinorments so now I only have one and I'm down to just my main characters. I won't be needing all those extra frogs and snakes. I want for this quarter to get everything model and textured. My main characters all have to be done by midterm so I can start rigging on them, I'm going to try to get a character done per week, starting this week.

Here's a list of things to be model

Characters:

Fira (cobra)

Chura (frog)

Hawk

Butterfly

Enviroment:

5 different module tree trunks

5 different module tree branches w/ leaves ((I was inspired by Andrea's work))

a Sky

3 different module clouds

a gravel path

8 different module pebbles/rocks

6 different module grass ((for close shots))

Far away grass ((either don with planes or fur))

3 different module vines

A far away canopy of jungle ((perhaps a plane or somthing))

If there's anything I need to add just tell me.

Here are some character concepts. They are almost completely finalized in their design the only one that needs more work is the hawk and the butterfly. ((Butterfly needs some design for it's wings))

Schedule:
((Done= Model & Texture))
Week1: Work on Frog
Week2: Frog done , Work on hawk
Week3: Hawk done, Work on Cobra
Week4: Cobra done, Work on Butterfly
Week5: Butterfly done, present Characters, work on gravel path and pebbles
Week6: Gravel path and pebbles done, work on grass modules
Week7: Grass modules done, work on Far away grass planes and tree trunk modules
Week8: Tree trunks and far away grass done, work on tree branch modules
Week9: Tree branch modules done, work on vine modules and sky
Week10: Sky and vines done, work on cloud modules and lighting
Week11: Everything done, present work.

Frog Unwrapped, Textured And, Toonshaded

2009-03-23T12:40:00.000-07:00

A Frog, A Hawk, and a Colorful Cobra

2009-03-16T12:57:00.000-07:00

Frog are almost done in modeling...just need to fix a few glitches. Anyway. They just need unwrapping and then texture.

Toonshader is cool!! 8D

2009-03-09T12:14:00.000-07:00

Toonshaders.....Yay....I think I'm getting the hang of them but they need more tweeking.

Snake texture and uv tweeked

2009-03-02T13:01:00.000-08:00

I tweeked more of the uvs but I'm still not happy with the tail end. I likw the bottom and the face so far and the bump needs work. I'll try a displacement map on it instead. Hopefully today I'll be able to get a toon shader on it, but I did get the glass material working great!!

Snake Texture Part 1

2009-02-23T12:28:00.001-08:00

Here's the beginning texture on my snake character!

Snake mesh fixed and unwrapped

2009-02-21T14:35:00.000-08:00

I got rid of alot of lines and level up the edges. It help a ton and my unwrap went a tad quicker because of it.

Snake finished!...I think

2009-02-16T12:57:00.000-08:00

I'm still working on the wrap for the snake's body. I'm having issues around the neck edge loop. I Originally tried a cylindracal mapping on the body and it came out real weird. So I did a planer map with some smart cuts and got a better effect but the loop near the hood is still all messed up.

Body done and test unwraps

2009-02-09T12:26:00.000-08:00

I got done with my guy done. I'm might need to tweek it more but it is mostly done. I also got to test unwrapping the head and a hand.

Half body done and Face Finished

2009-02-02T12:32:00.001-08:00

I think the ears turned out well but I did went split-edge-happy on the hands...

Updating!! Sorry for the long wait....

2009-01-26T10:47:00.001-08:00

Takes some getting use to this blogging business here. Anyway here is some old models I made for my master thesis. Now they probable will need some updating but they'll work to test out rigging and other such things.
The frog and snake needs more work and might be redone.Now for some homework!

Quarter 2- Week 1- Innovative & Essential Studio- Andrew Klein

2009-01-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

Goals of the Week:
Create a blog
Create goals for this quarter
Character work in lab