Models for E4

Here are some snaps of the models we created for the E4 Ident, we wanted to have a mish-mash of materials to add to the chaotic feel we wanted so we created some with "plasta-scene", (how the frig do you spell that? can't even find in spell check or the dictionary!) and some were made from felt using bits of glitter, glue, string etc. I made the material models and Hoi Kam made the thingy-scene ones!

Then we wanted to use stop motion photography instead of film to give the whole thing that strange jerky look, we also felt this would fit in with the other E4 idents we have seen them use previously, as stop motion and the color purple are quite identifiable with E4, so we bought lots of purple materials for the set. (of course we later realized we didn't need to as we could have done that with after effects) but at least we got to experiment with some crafting instead of always opting for the computer.

2nd life modelling

The three of us, i'm the pink cat! shame you can't see me properly! Hoi Kam's bunny makes me wanna cry it's so cool!

my cat talking to a dinosaur!

Experimenting with my staff by duplicating it and attaching it to different body parts!

my poor excuse for a top hat, it's just a black cylinder on my head! hardly a hat!

my staff! which i think looks quite decent! (played with different textures)

the first thing I modelled! I was petrified! lol don't know what it is meant to be!

Well I didn't get into the modelling aspect of 2nd life right away as you can probably guess! seeing as I HATE maya! and 3d modelling in general, but I had another go at it last week, (forgot to blog about!) and made myself a cat suit! which is not brilliant but gave me a chance to experiment and practice with the modelling system, camera angles, etc! It's much better than horrid maya! eugh! (can't even say or type maya without cringing) Anyway here are some shots of things that I have modelled so far in 2nd life!

5 Sperms!

this is it now, I can't make hundreds, so here are the final 5, each with own color and swim style!

I will only have next week now to animate them and provide the interaction with the egg. I stopped doing my flash animatic half-way through because it was taking up too much time, and i'm not working "exactly" to a storyboard anyway, this is because I am such a novice with maya, anything could go wrong, and due to my limited "skills" and time limit more importantly I am just going with the flow, if something works then I'm leaving it in! if it doesn't it's going! I am not expert enough to stick 100% to my storyboard, I just have to do what I can, and if that means I can't make them have a fight, i will have to do something simpler, etc etc.

Anyway gotta go! here's a screen shot! all the animation for next week! 

Maya Animated Sperm!

well I have finally come up with a sperm model that I like, I got an image and imported it into maya which I then used to model the sperm off of. This has worked out much better than previous attempts! (see images below)

I have added a sine handel and altered the wave length, amplitude, low bound and high bound and then have animated it by keying the offset in various positions.

The above screenshot shows the animated sperm on the far right and 2 duplicates which I am going to animate the same way giving them slight differences for characterisation.

I am not too worried about the egg yet as it will just be a sphere that will turn and bounce. the final scene will be the trickiest as I will have to flatten the sperm as the egg jumps on top of it!

previous models: