Current progress on the kettle house, planning to add windows, the
door/doorway and maybe do some floor around it this week. Doing basic
textures as well, possibly look at lighting and shadow if I have enough
time at the end of the week.
I'm using the original image for reference, but planning on stylising it somewhat to appeal to the fantasy genre.
Planning to have this model finished and textured by the end of this week, as an exercise I'm taking part in until my second year at Uni begins.
Game Grumps Animated is a way of the Youtube channel Game Grumps featuring various animators who produce animations using clips from their videos. PixlPit is a Swedish animator, he has made several videos which have been featured. He also has a Tumblr where he posts regularly.
- All visual assets used are his own
- Sound effects are usually from Audio Micro and the Youtube Audio Library.
- Mostly uses Autodesk Maya 2016 for 3D work.
- Adobe Flash for faces, in conjuction with Maya.
- Redshift for rendering.
- Adobe After Effects for composition.
- Game of Grumps (2015)
- Uses sound clips from 4 different episodes of Game Grumps.
- Took roughly 2 months to make.
- Includes references to several Sci-Fi shows, including Doctor Who and Star Wars.
- This tutorial for the intro was posted on PixlPit's channel, as seen below:
- PixlPit has been involved in various other projects, including a tutorial for modelling Finn the Human, Undiscovered Pokémon and various other personal works.
- Undiscovered Pokémon appears to reference recent announcements for the next iteration of games.
- PixlPit experiments with more accurate anatomical characters in this video than some of his others, but using the same techniques.
Harry Callaghan (Harry101UK) is an animator from London, in the UK (as implied by his username). I first saw one of his videos a couple of years ago, entitled This Is Aperture (2012). A series of music videos based upon the game series Portal, This Is Aperture was the first I saw.
- Using different iconic characters/items from the series, Callaghan provides different aspects of the story, making it an easy introduction for people who are new to the series, and able to enjoy as a standalone feature.
- Songs have been present as part of the Portal series in the form of the ending credits, with Still Alive and Want You Gone closing off Portal 1 and 2, respectively.
- Although this is a nice way to round off the games, and a fun pay-off to the stories, it is very much out of character for GlaDOS (the main antagonist of the series) to sing, as she is portrayed as a rather sadistic character, often cruel and randomly insulting.
- Beeple- 3D Artist, uploads new works daily, specialises in Cinema 4D
- Vimeo with new works uploaded regularly
- ZERO-DAY- short film visualising sound whilst keeping to a narrative.
- Parametric- 3D equivalent of a Vector (mathematically constructed, no loss of quality)
- Polygonal- 3D equivalent of a rasterised image (quality loss with scale adjustments)
- Return to Object/Centre- View -> Frame Default
- Centre camera on an object- O
- Parametric Object- Object -> Filler (rounds off edges)
- Importing Illustrator- 'Illustratir 8' file, treat as parametric and merges
Passion Pictures have recently released an animation test for a series of shorts based upon the Marvel characters Rocket Raccoon and Groot, who feature in the film Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Arnaud Delord- Director
- known to work with Jérôme Combe for game cinematics
- Arnaum & Jerome
- Ant-Man Shorts also being produeced by Passion Pictures
- Ugo Bienvenu & Kevin Manach are working on the shorts
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1992/1993/1995)- Richard Williams biggest work, which he worked on for over 30 years. He still considers it unfinished, it is made entirely using traditional animation techniques and is widely renowned for his dedication to the project.
- The most complete version can be found free-to-view here
- Seen as a large source of inspiration (or plagiarism, see previous blog post) for the Disney film Aladdin
