Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Email conversation @ work

Justin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-tmqV99U0&NR=1

Me:
Hahaha, pretty awesome

Justin:
Yeh.. I want to be in a dining hall.. where that happens. But not be a part of it at all. Just.. just see it happen. It would be fantastic

Me:
Next time we have a gathering at the long table in the back, we should try to start that up. But somehow I feel like it would just end up making us feel awkward.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Grief

I was going through my photobucket account, and came across these screenshots I took while I was making my "Wii Adventure" animation, when my Aryll model somehow became corrupt-



And for the record, here is what she was supposed to look like-


I was just thinking recently about how much grief this project caused me. Insane amounts. INSANE amounts. This is the point where I almost lost it. I was on the verge of going into fetal position on the floor around here... I forget how I fixed this issue, but I remember for a while thinking that the entire project, which I'd spent days, nights, weeks on, was corrupt. I think fixing it involved remodeling her a bit, but it eventually got done.

I used textures for mouth expressions. At certain frames, I obviously had to change the texture to show her emotion for that section (smile to frown, etc). I remember, after setting all that up for both Aryll and Link, all that data mysteriously vanished. 5 or 6 times. It got to the point where I had to write down on a sheet of paper what expression goes at what frame... it became this sort of math equation. In fact, I bet if I go into the file right now, the facial expressions will be gone again.




Oh, and here's some mock posters I did about 2 years ago for a "Silent Hill" movie contest that I completely lost in.

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I know, cheesy. Well, that's what most movie posters are. :p

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Gamblor



I made a reference to "Gamblor" and his "neon claws" in a family email conversation today, and I was told to "Danimate" said creature (and yes, that term is now used regularly in my family). So, here's Gamblor. Well, his hand, anyway.

15 minutes

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Metimdan "Epic" Battle




A million points to anyone that gets the movie reference.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Metimdan



Quick animation-doodle I did at work today. I can't really think of a way to describe what this is. So I won't.

15-ish minutes

Thursday, December 13, 2007

I Hate Snow


I had planned on this animation being more elaborate. As you can see, towards the end I got a little frustrated, so it's a little unfinished. But it's still a satisfying end.

I got a message from home at 12:00- it had just started snowing. I got a message from home at 12:07- it was coming down heavy. I left at 12:15, at which point it was absolutely fine in Watertown. When it did start snowing, I was staring at the ground at a stop light watching the ground literally get whiter within the span of time it took for the light to turn green.

I got home an hour and a half after I left work, an hour and a half after the storm started up in Franklin, and was greeted to this, which I took IMMEDIATELY after I entered the front door.



That's over 2 inches of snow.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Crazy Shenanigans


Based off of another family email conversation. Again, severe lack of time = severe lack of quality.