Happiness

Maya is my new best friend.

I'd been working on the speakers for a while, trying to get the curve right...I think i've cracked it. Just need to bevel the edges, a bit of tweaking here and there...

Also I was listening to this:

Because everyone loves Half Life 2

Inspiration, Gulliver & Lilliput sketchbook project

I stumbled upon an artist named Tessa Farmer recently. Her work is mostly 3D models, however I thought it tied in nicely to the recent Gulliver/Lilliput project we've been assigned. This project is mainly focusing on perspective, creating characters in a Borrower's-esque world where sewing needles could be used as swords, and everything is much larger than life. The other aspect is the giant size, creating a character abnormally larger than the average human and placing them in a scenario.

Tessa's work consists of using dead insects and taxidermied animals, with a twist. She adds in these small skeletal fairy-like creatures who are posed to either be attacking the animals, or using them, for example riding on a wasp for transport. I found her world very obscure, but indeed it was incredible to see these delicate objects created and placed into what could be a very normal scenario.
I viewed her work online, via her website;

http://www.tessafarmer.com/

I'll be posting up the drawings i've been doing asap. Along with photos from the various trips we've been on recently to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro and The Maritime Museum, Falmouth. Soon we're heading up to Newquay for a visit to Newquay Zoo.

Here's a Story from North America...

An amazing and amusing animation by Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis.

Maya, Modelling - More Progress.

I know it's late (2.23 am infact) but i've been modelling and it's getting really addictive now (so much so I tried to scroll on Facebook by right clicking and holding ALT down...) I've added the grill inside my pc case, the power switch, 2 USB ports, a headphone port and a microphone port. With the monitor i've added another sticker. It still needs a bit of TLC here and there, i'm going to talk to Georg on Monday about rounding off certain edges which i'm not sure how to do. Tomorrow hopefully get the mouse and speakers finished and begin adding in the walls, sockets, desk and eventually textures! Hopefully by next week! (:

Flash, Animatic, Take 2.

Okay, after a critique with Andy and the donatello class today, I decided that rather that using Georg's voice, that I should go and record someone else. I wandered off the Swanpool beach, there I was lucky enough to talk to the proprietor of Swanpool. I spoke to him about the beaches and Falmouth and got some incredible footage from him. I came back and added in a bit of lip sync and more animations. Here's my animatic so far:

Flash, Animatic - Take 1.

This is my animatic so far. Haven't added the mouth movements in yet, simple arm and fin movements just so I know how the character will move in my final piece. I quickly sketched this up in Photoshop/Flash today just to demonstrate the movements, however my actual final piece is a drawn image which I will scan in and cut out in Photoshop and use that way rather than digitally draw it. I will however draw the background digitally which is what i'm working on at the moment.

Thanks to Georg Finches for being the voice of the Mermaid! 

Maya, Modelling - Progress.

I've been working on my modelling. The base of the computer is now curved, I finished the webcam off, began to add the stickers on the side of the monitor, added the Dell button on the case and cut out where the grill is on my computer.