August 13, 2007
The End and the Beginning
It’s with both sadness and gladness I announce that I’m discontinuing the development of the film The Lady and the Lion. It’s been a difficult realization that the project is far too big for my time and abilities. It’s sad for me because I truly want to create a great art piece with 3D film. However, my decision has already made it easier to focus on the art and technical development of my 3D career. There are many art works I’ve created that I never exhibited online because it wasn’t related to The Lady and the Lion. Now I don’t have this holding me back. Perhaps someday I will be lead back to the project, but until then I’m going to focus on my career. My passion and obsession has been the engineering of movement for humans. Eventually, I’d like this to lead me to creatures of all types, and lead me to creating new tools to expedite the animation pipeline.
I won’t be updating theladyandthelion.com website from this time forward. I will have a new website formandspace.com. Form and Space will be a standard gallery website, with images, movies, demo-reels, and potentially, training videos. Please come visit me at Form and Space. There you can see my newest creations and demo-reels.
This is the end of the Lady and the Lion and the beginning of my personal development.
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August 2, 2007
Progress - Rig
Much has been done.
There are no shape blends in the shoulders. It’s deformed with my Auto-Rig from Curve tool, and a simple hierarchy of spheres.
Image removed.
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July 16, 2007
An Inspiration
http://www.marcbourbonnais.com/blog/
I really like this person. I get very excited while reading his blog.
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July 6, 2007
Auto-Rig From Curve(s)
In order to meet my specific needs for body, facial, and plant rigging I created this “Auto-Rig from Curve” tool . It has opened many doors for me, and I’m excited to see where I can go from here. This rig doesn’t use cluster center to constrain the points of the nulls. Instead I used a scripted operator to get and set the position of each point. I find the scripted operator to be easier to manage (no clusters or constraints) and faster playing back. I mention the scripted op because it is the most satisfying part of the process. It took two of the six days spent making the tool. I think everything else can be seen from the video. I hope you enjoy the video. If you have any questions, please post them here or email me. Thank you for watching.
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June 27, 2007
San Diego - Siggraph
I bought my tickets to attend SIGGRAPH in San Diego this August! If you would like to meet up, chat, share work, etc. , then please send me an email. I’m booked to arrive Monday August 6th, and I’ll be staying until the Thursday the 9th. I’m very excited to meet new and exciting people! I’m super excited to see the electronic theatre.
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