Posing oh yeah!

:) Well, I setup the lower half of the body and I rigged the eyes to track a single point. I didn't want to post any pics on the lower half just yet because I need to figure out the whole weight painting thing. You'll notice on the arms that they bend and deform improperly. Also due to weight painting issues (I think). Regardless, enjoy for now and I'll figure out how to fix these little nuances.

Armatures = fun (Part 2)

Another update!

I just finished rigging the top half of the body. I'll do the rest tomorrow but I really like the progress so far. I want to learn a bit more about weight painting to give it some realism, however for the sake of completing the tutorial, I'll hold off until I'm all done. Till next update!

Armatures = fun

I spent today learning about Armatures and started implementing one as per the tutorial I was following. The tutorial walked through creating a skin like texture for the character so I just followed along. I have a different vision for the texture and skin of the character but MUCH MUCH more reading is involved. :) Regardless, I managed to get the top half of the body rigged and weight painted. So I have a pic of that for you. I would have completed the entire rig but I have other obligations to attend to. Perhaps I'll have it done tomorrow or so. In the mean time, enjoy the progress. :D

My little alien friend :P

In an attempt to solidify my understanding of modeling AND go through a proper work flow, I decided to follow a tutorial on Character modeling and Animation in Blender. If you know me by now, you would know that I took matters into my own hands and put my own spin on things. I've been catching up on Star Wars: The Clone Wars Animated Series (3d). So that certainly influenced this one. At any rate, I started this one on Sunday and I finished it this morning. Now I have to read up on how to rig and animate it. For now enjoy these pics. :)

UGH...

Well, power is a bit intermittent at the moment due to crazy winds. I had a render of a wine glass with wine in it going for quite a while, then as I attempted to save the progress the power went out. 3 hours down the tube. :P I re-rendered it and I attached a pic below to give you an idea of what's going... then I realized that I screwed up on the creation of the glass so it's producing a weird artifact near the top of the stem. Also, that mistake is making the "wine" look like it's penetrating past the inside of the glass. :\ So I have to re-render regardless. No biggie, perhaps I'll experiment a bit with some of the built in features and see what I come up with next time. In the mean time, enjoy one of my "stumblings" :D

Garage on a sunny day

So yes, Summer time is quickly approaching and my mind is set on 3 things: Sand, Sun and (of course) Beautiful Scenery. ;) I recently tried out a tutorial on modeling a Garage and took it a step further. I'm a bit limited still because I don't know the tools that well but hey, it's a start. Check it out below!