Minor: Head Model Progress 6

I have been making some progress with my head model. I think that some of the things that have been bothering me about it have been solved by reorganising the geometry and moving away from copying the drawing exactly. This has definitely been the case for the nose and the back of the head going into the neck. I've shown some of the progress and the changes I've made below.

At this point I decided that the neck/jaw wasn't working and I needed to change some things around.

I made some changes to the geometry and moved the neck into a different position. I'm much happier with this. I've also done some general cleaning up and sculpting around the mouth and brow.

The next steps are:

Build the inside of the nostrils

Build the throat

Create ears

Create detailed eyes

Minor Project: Animatic - New Scene

Last week I travelled to Beihang University to attended a workshop on Emotional Intelligence in Animation led by Birgitta Hosea. It was a wonderful experience that I am very grateful for - it will also be quite helpful for making my film!

Part of the workshop included making a short animation showing emotions changing over time and I chose to work on my Minor Project for this. This video is showing what happens sometimes when I am feeling less pain than normal - I get over excited and do too much, ending up hurting just as much again.

I like the flow of this scene so far but I am not happy with the camera angles here, so I will remake this in Maya to more easily play around with directing the camera. The red parts will be more interesting and abstract and for the purposes of the animatic I will draw them in 2D over the 3D previz. I also intend to have a longer section of jumping about once I realise I am in less pain, but didn't include that here for the sake of getting it completed in the workshop.

With this scene included I would need to rethink the pacing of my film a little bit, I have an idea of how I will do this but will post about it when I have some more coherent thoughts.

Toolkit 3: Rigging Techniques - 6: NHair Dynamic Rigging Part 1

This tutorial involved setting up NHair Dynamics on a horses tail.

Toolkit 3: Speed Posing 4

5 Minute Speed Pose
I needed to curve the spine a lot more to make this pose work

Reference Image (top)

Minor Project: Head Model Progress 5

I've started on the nose, but when following my orthograph I found that the result was not at all what I wanted for the character. I have been changing things around and feel I have gotten a bit closer now, I will move the nostrils into a better position and then keep working on it.