dam

havent been able to fix my texturing woes and hand-in is just around the corner, so i am rendering my walkcycle as is...very unhappy tho! the character does not have the same effect when he is in this view!!!!!

Reviewal

after reviewing my project i found that the character was going along fine until the pose stage.i added on my handin cd "fullyarmatured" and "textured", from these stages i messed up the texturing and my armature wasnt linear enough i dont thnk. I will review these files and c wat i can do 2 fix my problems

Render Problems

my rendering has gone all wrong as i assume my texturing of liguardo was wrong, in all my panels liguardo is textured except for the shading tab where he is ugly and not coloured.im trying to fix this but have been on it for hours and its not looking good

walkcycle

created the walkcycle,, happy with it, but have read that u can adjust and fine-touch ur walkcycle for ages...wouldve been nice to do this longer but time restrictions!

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i created a wave animation as a way of getting used to animating before i went on to the more complicated steps of the walkcycle, looks alryte....im so tired! been doing this project non-stop now for a very very long time

back to the face

went back to the face of liguardo to try and form some facial features, didnt come off at all, the vertices i was left with were not easily manipulated and were very hard to place, this does give me an ugly "bug" look tho, and with little time left it will have to do

Armature

created the armature for liguardo, everything sems to be going well. i did find tho that not doing sufficient prep work at the beginning of the project has hardened and limited my ability to get everything the way i wanted it. e.g i didnt start on the grid plane so rotating and moving around axes etc has become very difficult especially involved with the armature

SICK - lost time

ive come down with an illness and have been sick for the past few days, was unable to make class on the 19th due to this, and have been laid up in bed feeling sorry for mysel :) keen to get back into the project now and catch up ont he time ive missed

new body

created the new body, its looking good, and have started reading up tutorials on armature

progress

i built my mock up model in blender but talked to kah and the fact that i used different shapes moulded together will become fragmented once i start the walkcycle so i need to remake liguardo, using a cubeand extruding the whole body out

Lightening bug!

i have browsed the internet and found an interesting insect called the lightening bug, i have drawn up some concepts and have a specific image of what i want my creature to look like...i will upload these images when i get hold of a scanner.

Liguardo - creating the body

The name of my character will be "Liguardo the Lightening Bug", i have been creating the body of Liguardo, and will talk to the tutors tomorrow in class asking for locations of good tutorials involving armature and texturing as i have notes from our lecture/tutorial but not enough to get the job completed.Looking forward to tomorrow!

copyright issues

i talked ova my atom ant idea with kah, and realised that there would be copyright issues assosciated with using the idea....so now I am rethinking my general idea.

The begginning

my characters design is going to be precedented by the animated cartoon character "Atom Ant". 'Atom' is obviously an ant, normal dimensions and size of your usual ant but he has one slight difference, he is insanely strong. I like the fact that he is small so I can (and have to) get right in there and display ways of working in all the real intricacies of the characters shell/exterior. I really enjoyed the cartoon when I was ypunger so am extremely looking forward to making a good go of this project.