So far so good I have been to animate for a short but cant go into too much detail so we shall see how that turns out.
So this will be the start of my own independent work. making characters and animating them however I
So years back I had a design for a vinyl figure called 'Conkers' and whilst being in uni and all other crazy stuff. I left behind the idea but since learning new skills and how to 3D model I jumps to the opportunity to finally make it.
one of my main influences was a couple of game grumps animated videos that fans have made. one animation called EsquireBob and another PixlPit
both made smaller more cute lookalikes of the main hosts to the game grumps channel.
the first video has more rigged and organic shapes features including movable eyes and rigged mouth for dialogue.
The second one is more square and less defined as a body that they are more like cubed cut out people, but what I loved most about this was the option to use flash animation to make the facial expressions and mimic the dialogue.
So I decided to mix a bit of both and come up with my earlier redesign of my little guy.
my first initial model had the leaves a little thin with thumbs but i thought lets make it easier and more natural to have normal leaf like arms. did a bit of more research into leaves and conker leaves as a matter of fact.
as you can see in the image below they look more organic and will be nice to rig later on too.
after the arms I looked into changing the spikes on the shell to be more bigger and short making them almost like little sharp stumps. friendly looking for a younger audience.
Set up the rig nice and simple I don't want anything to complex just some nice stretching and bouncing for my little guy.
looking good and I have flattened the front of the face so I can apply my flash animation for the expressions.
For now doing work experience this week so i should finish it up pretty quickly!
TILL THEN
BYE!
Oh this studio is too great for me.... such beauty!
