Monster mums new hairdo

This is the latest hair attempt. It's based on the hair of Jim's mum! Jim is going to tweak it somemore, he's not sure about the sides.

Testing 123

Today i made a test turntable of monster kid together with some of his toys so we can get a better idea of how the film will look. 3 passes were composited together to give this look, colour, depth map shadows, and global illumination passes. A 4th, z-depth, will be added later on so we can fiddle around with the focus of the camera. Youtube makes it look all grainy..booo

Crane

I made a crane for the city scene

Hiccup

Work on the film went pear-shaped last week. I think we've realized just how important concept art is for a film. We clearly don't have enough of it, as we're kinda designing and making stuff up as we go along... this is not good!

We've both bashed our heads together and decided to concentrate on making the picnic scene by the end of this term. This way, we'll have both characters rigged and textured and also be able to get the look of the film nailed. Jim is plugged into a rigging tutorial right now...aren't you Jim! yess. He's also redesigned monster mums hair for the final time...no going back now. Its a lot more simple to model and is based on the haircut of Jim's neighbour apparently..nice

Some blendshapes

meh
sad pout
worried

smug
big smile
cry 1
cry 2 snarl aweopen smile
wonky left
recovering dizzydizzy sadopen sad

Here are some blendshape tests for monster kid. Jim hasn't finished drawing all of the expressions yet, but i've had a go at creating some. Many more to follow!!

The new look

After a tutorial with Alex the technical man on Tuesday, me and Jim have come up with a new look for the film. We're going to use several render passes to create the look above. I think the shadows are looking a lot better now and more cutesy. On top of this, we still have to add a depth of field pass (Z-Depth) so we can alter the focus of objects as and when required.

Toy soldiers

I've finished making some toy soldier props that Monster Kid will later flick at his mum when he becomes bored. I've made them really basic and blocky, much like Lego characters, as they're only going to be seen from a distance.

Monster mum

This is the latest monster mum model. At the moment we're have trouble making her hair because of its curly design and difficulty modeling it in polygons. I think we're going to have to go back to the drawing board and give her a new hairdo.

Flowers

Here are some flowers for the countryside scene