Sneaking rake animation playblast

A quick playblast of an animation I am working on using the Norman rig.

Setting up a maquette

Setting up a maquette in ZBrush. Started off with ZSpheres, then converted to a polymesh and began tweaking it a bit more to a more female form.

Rigging with CAT in 3DS Max

Just starting to scratch the surface with 3DS Max, looking at rigging and animation with CAT (Character Animation Toolkit). The navigation takes getting used to; accustomed to Maya's interface. I love how Max crashes whenever you press a wrong button; it is like touching a hot stove. Eventually you learn not to press whatever incorrect button.

So I have the medic character from Team Fortress and using CAT, went about making a rig for him. On a more serious note, the system will mirror over multiple arms/legs/etc that is made as long as you have your rig sitting on the axis, which was nice.

Background and Environment

All of the assets for the insane asylum environment. The wheelchair has been updated with an alpha map, but it still is not quite where I would have liked for the wheels.

Wallpaper border

Made a wallpaper border for a children's room. The original image was slightly crooked and the color went through a gradient so a few areas had to be redrawn to make it tile properly.

Original image

Tileable image

Simple skydome

Looked at this video on how to make a simple skydome and brought it into UDK. CGTextures has a lot of good panorama images to choose from that will get the job done.

Various maps [part 1]

The models are starting to come together with all of the maps. Here are the first few:

Bookshelf meets UDK

Bookshelf UV'd and textured, check. Ready to drop in UDK.

Insane asylum assets in progress pt 2

 

 

 Models done. Next up: UVs and texturing.

Insane asylum assets in progress

First focused on modeling; texturing will come next. Bookshelf, wind-up monkey toy, sink, and toilet.

Insane Asylum reference sheets

Reference sheets for a few assets for an insane asylum. Pulled a good bit of diagram images; they make it easier to understand how some of the more complex objects are put together.

Creature fusion

I went back in and worked up more of the nostrils and shifted the eyes to make the head more horse-like, but brought in the snout more with a softer angle on the nose to make it more human-like.

Creature fusion work in progress

Work in progress of a sculpt, a mixture of me and a creature. I wasn't sure how I would resemblence with me and the creature, so I went with a horse.

Fearscape Zombie retopped

The first time around, the retop had edge loops that went awry. Here it is retopped with proper edge loops in place.

Concept from Schell Sculpture Studio.

Fearscape WIP II

Changed the material to see the the lighting better as I work out the wrinkles.

Concept from Schell Sculpture Studio.

Fearscape zombie WIP

Work in progress on a bust inspired by one of many sculptures viewable on Jordu Schell's site, Schell Sculpture Studio.

Anatomy study - left arm

Sparkplug

A simple sparkplug model.

Anatomy study

I took a basemesh from Mudbox and sculpted on it in ZBrush.

Creature bust WIP

Took a base head in ZBrush and moved around the mesh to get a feel for the eye placement and head shape. Then went to Maya to put in a tongue, eyes, and open the mouth. Level one mesh ready to send back to ZBrush.