Well, I get a long week holidays for mid-year break ahead, so better doing some modelings and animations than playing game and sleep the whole day :P . I did this tank last week when I found the model sheet on The-blueprints and had some free time.
*** Updated 05 July 2011 : I finished the model without texture, added some rigs to control the machine gun and the lid. Here's a few shots I rendered with Physcial Sun and Sky feature of mental ray, still need a bit of tweaks but a crazy week is coming up ahead so I'm quite happy with this for now.
Here's the hard body I decided to model for my assignment on DAN class, the popular X-Wing battleship :P.
Well, nothing fancy here :) , I didn't spend too much time on this model because I also needed to focus on rigging my catman until it was functional which is very time consuming. But I think it's still not a bad piece of work with all the details on top/back body, engines and the wings
The last model, my catman, I got the inspiration for it from an short animation "The Cat Piano" directed by Eddie White. Well, this film is kinda cool with the narration is a poem (narrated by Nick Cave), the poet was typing on a typewriter. If you like classical music and cool 2D animation style you will like it, so check this out :
And I've thought why didn't I model the cat from the movie itself, it could come out very interesting. And so, I began modeling him yesterday. So far so good, but it was still a Work In Process though and I got so busy with my study lately so I might have to update it later. Here is the upper body with the unfinished head :
We had a big assignment last week with a lot of pressure while we had to finish 2 model (a hard body model and a character), make the character functional rigged and write a reflection document on the whole process. Anyway, I draw a catman guy to use as model sheet, I think it was kinda cool and got the inspiration from an short animated film named "The Cat Piano" directed by Eddie White on 2009, the main character is a anthropomorphic cat.
Here is my scans ;
And the model without any real texture (well, basically I just applied some Lambert/Blinn materials and changed the base color to make it looks more interesting).
Well, modeling is really not my major but I'm learning a bit about it in my Animation Advance course. And I found it more interesting than I thought, especially character modeling (maybe because I like to draw a lot when I was in high school). Yeah, so I practiced modeling some characters at home when I've free time.
And this is my first ever model on Maya, a clumsy cartoon waiter or whatever lol. Not quite happy with the results but I guess it's still not so bad for the first attempt, and I've done it only on several days along with my Modeling assignment, a big assignment :P .
Here it is, without any texture and not many details on the body.
Please note that this artwork is not belong to mine, I found it on Deviantart long time ago.
This is my first attempt to do an short 3d animation, I've done it with Newtek Lightwave 9.0, sound edited by Soudtrack Pro and final editing by After Effects CS4. Big thanks to Kevin Phillips, my tutor at Natcoll Design Techonoly who has helped me a lot to finish this Individual Project for our class.
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