Ben Davis's CSC320 Blog

Final Project

2010-05-02T23:48:00.000-07:00

Enemy of My Enemy: http://www.mediafire.com/?fm0owcijcky

Shaping Up: to come (files to big for mediafire)

Impressions/Stuff Done:
I did four scenes for enemy of my enemy: shots 6, 14, 40, and 41. and i did shots 15 and 27 for shaping up.
My overall impression is that we definitely could have been more organized. I feel like we should have had maybe smaller groups and smaller scale projects, so that we could spend more time working together, instead of having two enormous projects. Just honestly, I feel like a few people did most of the work, and others had some problems working with what they created. In enemy of my enemy, i didn't really have any problems. Everything I needed was already there. For shaping up, I was somewhat lost. My scene required a cat in a tree. I wasn't sure where to put a tree or what type of tree would be suitable for a cartoon. I ended up copying a tree that will had created in another scene, and imported my cat from my character project. It honestly looked ridiculous, but for a cartoonish thing, I guess it's okay. The other challenge I had was animating Jr. I did the walk cycle, and then played it, and it basically looks like he's a cripple. the problem is that one of the controllers i used to move his leg worked perfectly, but the other one wasn't consistent with how it influenced the joints.

Project Three

2010-04-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

lift

2010-04-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

PROJECT FILE

http://www.mediafire.com/?hzyxjzwgidy

YOUTUBE REFERENCE

floursack

2010-04-22T21:07:00.000-07:00

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

SCENE FILE

http://www.mediafire.com/?cmnjhvzzzlm

cat 2.0

2010-04-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmzym0hqehz/catTwoPointOh.mb

walk cycles

2010-04-01T08:02:00.000-07:00

this seemed a lot faster when i was playing it in maya. the first walk cycle i did didn't look right, in maya it looked like he was stomping. i tried this one and it looked better, but now after seeing it rendered, it looks like it's in slow motion. i tried adjusting the rotation of his shoulders a lot, and that helped a little bit.

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

blend shapes

2010-03-30T19:54:00.000-07:00

tina fey impersonating tracy morgan on letterman.

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

lessons eighteen and nineteen

2010-03-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

http://www.mediafire.com/?qmzfdnmknmg

biped rig stuff

2010-03-16T12:51:00.000-07:00

zip containing maya files -

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zitmynjkmnz/bipedRig.zip

cat maquette

2010-03-15T11:43:00.000-07:00

maquette from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

Character Project

2010-02-26T06:12:00.000-08:00

Definitely have a lot of work to do. It's easy to tell that I used all polygon cubes. The only thing I'm sort of satisfied with are the proportions.
I basically just followed this tutorial for modeling - https://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials/real-time-character-modeling-tutorial#tabs
I rendered it in blender.

Untitled from skinnybenny on Vimeo.

Some source stuff - http://www.mediafire.com/file/mtllmw4lbz3/catProject.zip

Leon Stuff

2010-02-25T22:10:00.000-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nzwnzjtgrye/leonProjectFolders.zip

Materials, Sketches

2010-02-25T21:43:00.000-08:00

Three Balls

2010-02-02T20:52:00.001-08:00

All of this is really new to me. I did these in blender instead of maya. I found a "wikibook" on how to use the blender program that's been extremely helpful, especially about how to edit the IPO curves.

IPod: True Story (Project)

2010-01-26T20:52:00.000-08:00

http://rapidshare.com/files/341700710/ipodTrueStoryBenDavis.zip

CLICK BELOW FOR ANIMATIC

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/8590/animatic.gif

ALTERNATE PROJECT ZIP SOURCE:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?julyw4omzjg

HWOne

2010-01-15T19:30:00.000-08:00