The one time when commercials at movies work!!!

I lately when you go to the movies, you will see a commercial for Sprint. It is so creative and raw that I just love watching it! I found the video on how they made it happen. Take a look.

Kickin the Curves...

Continuing to add keys to smooth out the animation.

Moment Blocking

This is the blocking of my entry to the 11secondclub.com for August. I think it is of to a good start. Any comments?

first illustrationfriday.com entry for me...

What is worse than a chocolate emergency?

Well I added this as my submission for illustration Friday. But I didn't link it to my site =\ so I had to resubmit it.

Next time I'll do it right the first time.

Lemon Car additions...

Floyd and I discussed the general look of the car and wanted to see the front nose to be pushed back in to the rest of the lines of the giving it a more smooth line flow.

So that has been changed, I am going to see about changing the door swing so that it opens more like a regular door as well.

We had kicked around the idea that the cars should also have a resemblance of the characters them selves. So I added the hair bit on top and mustache bumper on front.

**Click on the picture to see the movie.

Turn Table in Quicktime

Well I tried Google's new upload video feature but I don't think I like the fact that you can't scrub through the animation.

so....... if you want to scrub through and see it at a larger format click here : LemonCar_01.mov

Lemon Car Turn Table

Here is a turn table of the lemon car.

Working More on the Lemon Car

Reattached the doors. Added some glass and gave it a nice shiny ambient occlusion paint job.

3D Character sketch...

Floyd created a 5 min model sketch of the hero character

Lemon Car still continuing

I added the seat, dashboard, and steering wheel.

Lemon Car Continued

I took out the doors and windows, and was playing around with sunflow renderer.

Lemon Car Modeling Started

The lemon car is on the 3D modeling stage and I also started the Show boat skteches

Character Sketches

Floyd drew up some character sketches

Car sketches

Here is a sketch of one of the cars

The Interview.....

Floyd and I are starting on a new project called "The Interview". These are some preliminary sketches of the story.

trying to work toward the finish...

This the next installment of animation. I was easily distracted today with the internet so I wasn't as focused, but still got some stuff done. His right hand didn't get smoothed and his chest seems a bit floaty...

More tomorrow.

moving along...

Man, even on a Friday I still got an hour in. Yippie to me! I was just going to do a half hour, but just kept going.

Here is the newest installment

Smoothing out steps

I started smoothing out more of the steps. Just a first pass at the first half of the animation. The right hand I haven't paid much attention to, but it seems a bit distracting.

Plugging forward.....

New Direction.....

I'm going to animate for one hour each day.

I actually did it today but was having problems getting the playblast to convert to something people could see. (I'm using 64-bit programs and the codec's are in 64-bit so they don't transfer well to 32-bit.) Tomorrow I'll create stills and make the movie in After Effects.

Old Man sketch

Well I'm rethinking my modeling of Lightning Mcqueen. I think I'm going back to one of my original projects rather than duplicating someone els' work. I think that will be better for the portfolio. Any way enjoy the sketch.

Texturing Complete!

One down and 3 to go...LOL Thank God for the Duplicate button. ;) The top image is a sticker I noticed while going through the movie Cars about a frame at a time so I figured I should add it too.

Now it's on to the body. I found a great neutral smile frame.

quick sketch

Just wanted to add a fast painted sketch of my foot.

Moving Texture Forward...

Well, I went home to visit and I can seem to get soooo much done on airplane rides when the turbulance isn't bouncing my hand around. I was able to get some awesome screen shot references before my battery died. Then on the return trip was able to knock out the tread texture. I was working on the bolts before I left but really wanted to get the other one done more.
Enjoy

texturing bumps.....

Well trying to continue on with the texturing, I've found that I think I need to res-up the lettering, it's a bit too stepped. I also added a funny mistake that made the sidewalls look like they were glass. Has kind of a cool look

Starting to refine Superman

Play-

just starting to smooth out some of the animation. Trying to keep this project moving forward.

adding Textures

Placed some textures on the outter areas of the wheel. I Have to see what the tread looks like and add that next

it's got lugnuts

well, after the vista upgrade and taking the whole weekend to clean out my appartment, I finally have some more progress.

It doesn't look like much, but I finally have all the tire pieces sewed together and added the lugnuts.

Sketchaholism is addicting

Well my good friend Sketchaholic passed along his disease and inspired me to break out the digital ink and paint some pixels.

And keeping with the monkey theme. ;)

Vista Upgrade....

Well I've been out because I have been getting my system upgraded to Vista. I'm crazy like that ;) .

Any way I just got my projects back up and running so. more updates tomorrow.

main superman poses

Play-

Here is a bit more of the main keys for my superman video. It's still VERY rough, but coming along.

Tire Holes

There are holes in them there tires!!!!

tire mod

Just refining the tire rim.

Superman Start

Quicktime - supermanTest01.mov Win- supermanTest01.avi

Well I'm going to see how many things I can keep up in the air. I started my animation for superman by five for fighting.

The rig is Theo. A collaborative project. You can get it here at trivi.org

added Lightning's wheels

Just a start but I think I'm getting the initial shape

Lightning McQueen WIP

Well we flew back home for a short trip. I decided I wanted to try and recreate Lightning McQueen. A while back I wanted to make Buzz lightyear, but never got around to it.

The image is about 8hrs work. I'm not speeding through it, just enjoying the process of modeling.