This weekend I went to go see Zootopia, I was really excited about it actually, everyone I have heard from who had already seen it said it was amazing. I'm going to try and talk about this without giving any of the plot details away because it only just came out the other weekend so I don't want to spoil it for anyone....
Now that the rabbit's accessories are done I got on with the rigging. I built the rig and the control shapes and I did half the blendshapes for the face (Aimi is doing the other half). I had a bit of difficulty with the skinning as I don't have much experience doing that but luckily Krish was there to help me, well to...
So we did our dry run for our conference presentation. I was pretty nervous but I think it went well, I didn't use all the time but there were a few things that I hadn't put in yet that will need to be added for the final presentation which should take it to 15 minutes. I got some good feedback from Jeanette and...
We finished doing most of the shots of our previs before showing it to Brendan and Phil for feedback and advice. Brendan gave us some really great tips for improving the composition of out shots and made sure that we were using the rule of thirds and not putting characters on the centre line. Phil said that the humour of our piece was...
Krish asked me to sculpt the head for the rabbit. I started by building the basic model in Maya and attaching the ears Krish had made before taking the model into mudbox to reshape things slightly before giving it back to Krish for him to retopologize and attach to the body. ...
We have had 2 lessons from Sang on zbrush now. The first was an introduction to the interface then a tutorial on how to use fibermesh. We are going to use it for the hair of the trools so he showed us how to create the kind of hair we want and then how to import the curves into maya and create hair...
