My new year’s plan is to learn animation. Six days a week, i’m going to get stuck into Blender and learn the craft for at least an hour every weekday and a bumper session every Sunday. (Saturday is the token get-rest-of-life-in-order day.) I’ll post the results here.
I was working on a straight walk cycle but the weight seemed off. Then it got silly.
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.
For a little while i went through an abstract phase. I just made shapes and lit the shapes and procedurally animated the shapes. I wanted things to move. I didn’t know what i was doing but i was happy to play.
This is a still image from an experiment lasting just a few seconds. It’s very simple geometry with a subsurface modifier, then the wave modifier forming the ripples, then the subsurface modifier again.
Project last modified 27 September 2010.