Where I put my online stuff…..
I put some colour on the Otter and made a 500 frame animation (just under 20 seconds) using a slightly different picture technique for the background (three layers). Here’s a single frame as an example:
I discovered a couple of problems with the animation (mainly to do with shadows) but may or may not fix them as I’m just trying stuff out.
I’ve been mucking about with some more models for my “big idea” and produced a little scene with another short animation a while back. I haven’t rendered the animation for posting (as it was just to try out a few things), but here’s a frame grab from near the end…
You might recognize some of the models – Mammoth (which was also turned into a young one without the tusks), Pinching Beetle, and some of my lame trees. The big green thing is my first attempt at a “jade boulder”. The mountains are the Seven Sisters taken from an exceptional photograph from Bob Wall Photography (thanks, Bob!) and although it just looks like blue sky in the background, it’s actually a clouds time lapse that runs in the animations.
I’m starting to flesh out a few ideas of how my larger project might work so there may be a few glimpses of those ideas from time to time…
One of the big hurdles with these types of projects is render times – particularly for animations – so I’m trying to always keep the complexities in mind and find efficient solutions.