Vince Carp Extraordinaire!!!

I've just about finished setting the facial expressions for my continuing animation. Textures are still to be finalised (and I need to study a few tutorials before I can apply these properly) but I'm not worried about these until the end. 

So for now I introduce to you a taste of the recently named "Vince Carp"...

The next stage for me is to create his evil emperors gown as an item of clothing over his previously rigged body.

COMPOST CREATIVE

I've just watched James May's "Things You Need To Know..." and absolutely loved the animation throughout, it was produced by the company "Compost Creative". I like the complete mish-mash of animation styles used very much.

James May's "Things You Need To Know..." Mash Up from Compost Creative on Vimeo.

My Planet Test

This isn't really directly of any use to the animation I'm working on at the moment, I just wanted to see how easy it was to make the planet earth. Forget 6 days it just took about half an hour. I just searched the  web for Planet Earth Texture Maps. There are some good tutorials that tell you how to layer up the sea, and give a bump map to the ground and create a layer of clouds and atmosphere. But the reality is that the globe map needed in my animation wont need so much detail. So reality goes out of the window.

I was surprised how little needs to be done to achieve this though, just import a material and drop it on a sphere...

I don't know, there's something about this I like.

E E E E4

My E4 Sting has finally uploaded. 

If you think you uploaded one weeks ago and it still isn't there then re-name it and re-size it so it doesn't recognise it and upload it again in a new E4 profile. It should then appear on the site in a matter of minutes.

http://www.e4.com/video/LCjmOP3uitZYZv1bGbz7Gs/play.e4

A Town Called Panic

For those of you that are still looking at this blogaroo over the school holidays the animated film "A Town Called Panic" is on Film 4 this coming Wednesday. It's worth a look although I still think their stuff is a thousand times funnier in French.