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Comedy structure for animation

alanmartin75 — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:17:46 GMT

Hello, I'm a bit of a newbie at this so hopefully I'm not posting in the wrong place- apologies if that's the case. My name is Alan Martin and I'm currently finishing a Masters degree in Belfast. I've been studying animation for nearly two years now and as part of my coursework I made a study of humour and the structure of comedy. I wrote an essay on the topic and wondered if it would be of use to other animators or anyone working in storytelling. I found it a useful exercise and I believe it can inform narrative, character design and performance.

I've had a bit of positive feedback and encouragement from other animators and story artists. I would really appreciate it if you could take the time to read over it and give me any thoughts or opinions as to how useful you think it could be as a resource. Research-wise, i'm aware that i'm only scratching the surface and am keen to continue adding to what i've already written, so if its of interest then that would be quite encouraging.

Here's the link to my website. There are a couple of videos there as well- I hope to add to these soon. Again, I would really appreciate any feedback or opinions.

All the best,

Alan

Jon's Sketchbook

JonMacD — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:03:33 GMT

Hi guys, been a while since I posted last but thought I would put together all the pieces I've done over the past couple months, they're all personal works done in my spare time, and some are just WIP's.

Enjoy. ;)

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Julz creatures

Julz — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:29:27 GMT

some ideas

Tribute to Clement Sauve

Spatz — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:42:10 GMT

hi there this is my first wip thread here at cgfeedback ...

i�m working on this model for qiute a long time now and i hope you like it

comments and critique are very welcome :)

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Andrew Bust

tom.newbury.cg — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:37:26 GMT

Hey everyone!

So I decided to give my Jason Statham bust a rest because I felt like I hit a real brick wall with it and have decided to go ahead and start another one with the skills I had gained. I decided to do the bust of a good friend.

I think I still have a while to go until I am reaching the 'realistic' quality I am looking for.

I was wondering you you very talented people might be able to give me some pointers in doing this.

Thanks

Tom Newbury

If you want to see more of the progress of this piece you can find it on my blog here: http://tomnewburycg.blogspot.com.au/

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Middle black

Lapaev — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:23:21 GMT

recently i had to cranck out in short amount of time a few studies, so here they are hope you like them( 2k wide )

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Rogues Gallery - Looking for LA based 3D Maya Generalist

RoguesGallery — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:54:33 GMT

We're looking for a Maya Generalist to help us with an E3 game trailer.
Schedule: 5/21 - 6/22 working on-site in our studio in Culver City.

Please send link to work and rates to: jobs@roguesgallery.tv

Killer

3draider — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:05:30 GMT

Showreel - january 2012

da_ul — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:02:24 GMT

Hi,

here's my latest showreel:

https://vimeo.com/42130859

Vimeo

Uli

Rackham Troll

stefanobernardi — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:53:20 GMT

Hi guys, I've just finished this model inspired by a miniature made for the tabletop game Confrontation.

Some minor modeling, retopoing and UV unwrapping apart, made in Maya and 3D-Coat, the most of this model is made in Zbrush: the renders also are single pass Zbrush renders, without any compositing or color correction.

For this project I tried to achieve the best render of a complete character I could make in Zbrush, to get a better knowledge of its shading and rendering system and to see if it could be used as an alternative to standard rendering packages.

Thanks for watching!

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ReDucto and MudWalkerX now available for download

Wayne — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:11:24 GMT

Now available for Download

MudWalkerX ReDucto have both been made available for download and use free at the above link. There are also some video help files on the site as well, although you are STRONGLY encouraged to read the help files as not everything is covered in the videos.

as well as what was in the promo video I have added 2 extra little features:

� A interop between Mudbox and Zbrush
� Zbrush users can now make full use of ReDucto (as can Maya, 3DsMax and Softimage Users)
� video showing how to add any app with scripting or an SDK in about 2 very easy lines of code anyone can do.
� A third totally different poly reduction algorithm of mine 'WeaponX'

MudWalker Features:

� Send back and forth to many supported applications (including scene update as well)
� 'NoQuarter' A Voxel grid based polygon reduction with 9 easy to use auto settings
� Export selected faces/parts of your models or all of them (This can be used for easy model to 3d print parts workflow)
� Take all models in scene to their lowest subdivision level
� Take all models in the scene to their highest subdivision level
� Create a complete Multi Application project file structure if you wish
� Easy to add unsupported applications
� Send to Mudbox & Export to ReDucto from Zbrush
� Start ReDucto out of the box from 3DsMax, Maya & Softimage
� 'WeaponX' hybrid polygon reduction (think of it as a hybrid of ReDucto and NoQuarter, with the speed of the latter and very nearly the quality of output of the former)

ReDucto Features:

� Unique Polygon Reduction Algorithm using its own AI that works out how best to reduce the polycount of your mesh created especially for digital sculpts. It gives better results that anything around currently.
� Intelligent hole filling capable of filling 'impossible holes' other apps will reject
� Industrial strength tri stripping and un-stripping
� Bake Ambient Occlusion and Normal map data direct to your mesh at vertex level
� Mesh merging of high polycount datasets
� Find and Fix problems in your mesh such as rogue vertex, non planar faces many, many more
� Face, edge and vertex optimisation to enable faster loading times
� 3 types of subdivision not found in most applications
� Customisable interface configurations
� ReDucto is a standalone separate application and as such is totally application agnostic

Some extras you get as well:

� A drag and drop file viewer with support for many file types for fast reviewing of models
� 'Mudbox Backup' This simple exe will back up every setting in all versions of Mudbox installed on your machine into one place for easy restoring should the preference files become corrupt. Brushes, materials, hotkeys...everything
� Save and restore all Mudbox settings in one click

All made available for free on the stipulation that I do not get any emails for tech support / requests for features / complaints you got abducted by aliens due to MudWalker or ReDucto. If you are a company please send me a courtesy email notifying you are using either ReDucto or MudWalkerX. It will cost you nothing.

As many people requested it I had added a donate button on the psychocore.com site for those that want to, but there is no obligation to.

Wayne...

Rigmesh

tonytrout — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:43:00 GMT

If you havent see it allready on CG Talk thought this looks pretty interesting idea

You Tube

Only info seems available here
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...f=59&t=1050475

Renjubosco_sketchbook_2012

renjubosco — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:42:14 GMT

HI all this is my first post in here ,now on i will be posting my new works in here.

hope you all will like it.

this is a work done based on my niece,done in zbrush,maya and comp in PS

Still from my showreel:

a sulpt done for fun,completely done in ZB

A sculpt done based on Agpories of india,completely done in ZB

regards
renjubosco

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Fallout 2 - fan art: Apa mk-ii

CryingHorn — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:42:49 GMT

Hey everyone.

Here is my latest work I've been working on for a while. This is my first fan art type of work. I'm actually a huge fan of Fallout 1 and 2 games, so I decided to make a tribute for it and model an Advanced Power Armor mk-II from F2. I started to collect various pics for references from net. There is not much regarding the APA to be honest, so I mostly used the main cover of APA which you see in the main game window. Of course I got the wallpaper version which was big and clear enough to capture the concept. So that and some more screens from the game "talk screens" where you can see APA was all I had. Obviously I had to improvise a lot so I'm really sorry if some places of my version looks off the original. I actually wasn't very strict to original while making it, I tried to improvise with respect to original. It was actually a great opportunity to develop my skills for hard surface modeling and especially texturing. The shader of final armor came out to be very huge actually. It contains more than 60 different textures that are mixed all together in the shader. Each element has its own "dirt" and "worn edges" baked textures for mixing. Anyway, in the end I decided to make more than just one or two renders and I ended up with 5 different style stills. Hope you'll like it, especially if you like original Fallout series.

"Cold Encouters":

"Gang":

"Waiting in Deserts"

"Another Trophy":

"Routine":

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Cobra Space Adventure

charlesv — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:04:58 GMT

Hey!

Like many people I am a big fan of Cobra Space Adventure.
While waiting/hoping for the start of the live action film I decided to do some sculpting of a few characters. Cobra of course, Lady, and a few aliens like the duke man (can't remember his name, love this character :D)

I decided to have a sexy start with Dominique.

1st WIP... still a lot of work to do of course.

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