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Running

Donovan asked me a few days ago to try a run cycle. Here’s a snapshot of one i’m working on. My first, i think.

There’s problems. I want to sleep on this one because it’s Friday and it’s nearly 11pm and it’s time to take a break. I’ll come back to this tomorrow and see how good i am at problem-spotting.

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Hmm

I like faces. Puzzled faces are good. Today because of shortness of time i went for another pose. Tomorrow as penance i will probably do some gesture drawing.

I popped out to see Paperman/Wreck-It Ralph today. I liked ‘em.

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Sad

Part of good animation is good storytelling, and good storytelling makes an emotional connection with the audience. So if i don’t have time for walk cycles, there’s still quicker things i can do.

I tried to pose this guy to make him look like he’s grief-stricken, or at the very least not very happy. I accidentally left autokeying while i was posing and a bunch of work got rubbed out when i pressed Render… but most of what i needed to do to fix the pose i was working on was to drop the camera angle a bit. Pose was fine. Camera angle was bad. File that one under “experience”.

A sad cartoon man is not the most cheerful thing in the world. Maybe more substantial than the usual cartoon cheese.

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I watched this really horrible movie today. Also i learnt how to use the new Cookie Flex Rig, an amazing morphing rig for Blender by CG Cookie.

Actually, i didn’t make it all the way through the movie. It was that horrible. It’s so horrible i’m not even going to tell you what it is. It doesn’t deserve to horrify anyone else.

Here’s my impression of the movie i watched using a morph of the CG Cookie Rig. I think this is my first animated GIF here.

Editor’s note: Tumblr was notorious for breaking animated GIFs.

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I modelled a coffee mug. One of the folks on #blender (the IRC channel) insisted i’d taken a photo and demanded a clay render.

It only looked real because black ceramic glaze is apparently dead easy to fake as a material and i’d done a crappy light probe of my kitchen to light it with. I also had that exact mug sitting on my desk as reference.

Model from 27 March 2011.