PUTTING PIGEONS ON STUFF! I've been wanting to do this for years.
They're obviously designed to be background assets, but they still hold up fairly close.
Should I have tried to figure out how to make some of them ...
2020-11-20 23:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostFirst: an apology- I am SO behind on messages.
But yes! I'm still indulging in the decadence of updating old VFX shots, which I know I shouldn't do, release-schedule-wise, but it feels so good; instead of staring at a blank scene ...
A few tricks for cleaning up photoscans, and some rigging! I think a fun project could be compositing this guy into some live action footage, maybe?
Also, I'll be uploading the skater guy as an asset in a bit here, in case anyone needs a fl...
I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but nothing that's lent itself perfectly to a tutorial, so I decided to go easy on myself and say it's okay if tutorials cover ground I've already covered before, and here we are! This was fun :D
2020-11-09 23:23:46 +0000 UTC
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The last few days have been pretty wild here in the US, so I kind of intentionally let myself check out to greeble city for a bit (between checking twitt...
2020-11-05 12:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWent on a hike along the Dosewallips river last week, and did some scans! They were going to be for a halloween video I ended up not doing (I thought it'd be fun to put on the rokoko suit and be like a ghost or an eerie prospector or something), b...
2020-11-03 04:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
H'okay! Here's a bunch of different piston rigging techniques! Dependency loops are one of the biggest issues when trying to set up a piston rig (you typically target each half to just point at the other half, but blender hates it when two things ...
2020-11-02 09:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick upload of the merchants from that shot I was posting the other day (Download Below)
They're maybe a bit specific to be particularly useful, but I know I'll be raiding it a bunch in the future for small little parts to ...
Alright! I'm going to be getting a little granular with these videos for a bit, because hopefully there's a lot of info in there that's useful in contexts outside of creating CG robot arm (let me know- would you rather have a lot of shorter videos...
2020-10-28 04:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Mostly I just made this video because I'm really jazzed about a new shot (just woke up and got to see it rendered!) and felt like talking about some stuff. Definitely things I could tweak, but I love how the photoscans integrate with the environme...
2020-10-24 22:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostRobot arm!! [download below] I learned so much doing this, both about rigging and anatomy. I loved the learning curve of getting started in rigging; it's really easy to get your feet wet, and just keep getting in deeper without even noticing. I st...
2020-10-21 08:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
MOOOORE neon, seriously Ian? YES! So I have a bazillion other things I should wrap up (robot arms and merchants and HyperBoles), but I wanted to see if this would work and it did, so I made a video because I'm jazzed.
Heeyyyy- want to know a secret technique to never finish a film? Take so long to finish it that eventually you begin looking at the first VFX shots you did a couple years before and start wanting to re-do them.
Cause that's a slip...
After years of tweaking, I finally made a jellyfish I'm happy with!*
The above isn't really a full tutorial, because I haven't found a way to make them consistently good, but the technique is very straightforward (bas...
2020-10-16 05:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a 7 minute video, but the basic node setup only takes a few seconds. Very simple, and a surprisingly effective way to add some cohesion/age to a scene! Personally I think it works best when you leave it subtle, but I cranked it pretty high fo...
2020-10-08 08:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This isn't a tutorial because I don't really have any idea what I'm doing, and yet, I'm documenting it anyways.
This is just something I've wanted to do for a few years. I feel a little bad starting this project when I have so man...
Part 2 tomorrow! Or the day after!
So- as I mention in the video, I was going REALLY hard in the cg department for a bit there, and while I'm super amped to finish up the HyperBole sequence (and the Dynamo Dream episode!!!), I wanted to tak...
I've been slow to make this video 1.) because I'm not a particularly great animator and 2.) because anything regarding animation is mostly just going to devolve into a bunch of graph editor tweaking (cause that's how you do it).
F...
WHEW! This took significantly longer than I expected. Higher detail neon signs (64 total), every letter, upper/lower case and the numbers. ...
2020-09-29 11:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostLove-Of-My-Life-Kaitlin and I went on a last-bit-of-summer trip around the Gifford Pinchot forest the past few days, and I snuck in a little Bower-Bird-esque proposal- she said yes! :D
We're really excited to have the wedding with all ...
2020-09-24 10:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew!! Inadvertently signed myself up for way too many projects the past couple weeks, and while it's been fun, I'm really excited to get back to business as usual- but in the meantime, here's a video about making a big ol' Beefy Mechanical Iris D...
2020-09-24 09:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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SO! I did a presentation for Kitbash3d's "Game Day" for LightBox- 2020-09-13 21:46:29 +0000 UTC
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Been letting myself enjoy the last few weeks of summer (I feel like Winter's going to be a tough one), but I've still been working hard on the HyperBole scene!
Just finished the scene below. I was imagining compositing one of the HyperBole...
H'OKAY SO yes, it's fairly easy to make a text outline glow and call it a day. But what if you want to make something that holds up to some sort of scrutiny?? I wanted to make a HyperBole neon sign with a few more polygons, so if you're interested...
2020-09-03 09:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I suppose this one's a little more oriented for beginners (since I'm fairly beginner in this area), and I figure anybody who knows constraints is probably already familiar with most all of this, but it's been really fun playing around with this st...
2020-08-29 02:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Proooobably should have held off on this video, and I suspect it's of limited use to anyone with even the most basic rigging knowledge, BUT, I've been having so much friggin' fun with this technique that I wanted to post a quick video abo...
2020-08-20 01:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick rundown of a bunch of the techniques I've been using lately for all these greebly (nonsense detail) bits! There's almost always a more efficient way to do what I'm doing at any given moment, but that's part of the fun of it :)
Also...
Halfway through August!! wooo! Finally getting a 95 degree day tomorrow, I'm ready for it.
It's wild to me that August is the cold month for you folks in the southern hemisphere. August=Heat is just burned into my head.
You know what e...
2020-08-15 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In my new quest to make the HyperBole become my most overly-inflated side project, I've decided I need a bunch of distinct background combatants, so I ma...
2020-08-15 00:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hyperbole isn't a good idea, but it's one I've wanted to do for a while, so I kind of want to put some effort into it?
That said, I'm in a tricky zone right now, where I'm designing different characters, and I don't want to sp...