Recalibrating

Just to let you know, the slight service intermission was caused by me being busy recalibrating at Glastonbury Festival.  I went there with Simon, working for Oxfam, which is definitely something you should look into if you like festivals, are skint, or want good karma.

I'm back at the grindstone now.  I spent yesterday trying to make fixes to the first 22 shots which I completed for my college final submission.  I got great feedback from fellow tube intern Henri Hebeisen (of glowing robot lights and mushroomer fame).  Today I've been prepping backgrounds and modelling the last 13 sets.  Here's a screenshot of working up the alpha channel for a camera-mapped shot, which I thought looked quite nice.

Meet The Composer: James Whittle

I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that James Whittle is producing the soundtrack for my current short, due to be completed by the end of next month.  James is an incredibly talented composer, instrumentalist and singer, and has just finished his degree in Music at the University of York.  James has worked on some fantastic projects and its an honour to have him on board, so draw the curtains, turn the lights down low, put on your best headphones and take a listen to one of his recent works, 'Violent Cannon'.

VIOLENT CANNON by James Whittle

Rigging Done

He's multi coloured in proxy form to help me spot mesh intersections.  The coat was an absolute nightmare to rig but now I have a fairly nice fake wind effect using displacement textures and animated textures, all controllable at animation time.  Time to start animating.

Crows First Animation Completed

First piece of background animation done!