Passmore Lab climbed on as a producer!

I recently presented the Lovestruck project to my boss, he liked it and so agreed that I can treat it as a background project at work! Its great, because now I have more time and computing power to my disposal. Also, seeing that I work for a company that specializes in stereoscopic 3D..I will also be making a stereo version of the film! This obviously adds to my workload but I think its worth it. So welcome on board Passmore Lab! If you want to see what they are about please go visit their site: www.passmorelab.com

big update

The modeling of all the characters are done! Man, its taken a while but it was fun seeing that I usually don't model the characters I animate on. The more I modeled the characters, the more I found the visual style coming through and 'mature' so by the end I could take that back to the first guys and revise them. The biggest change was on Wesley's face. He lacked in appeal for a main character especially in the nose area. It was just too dopey in my opinion.





as for the new characters: this is Rebecca, the love interest:




Lastly we have a background character that will just be reading a newspaper, so ill be calling him Mr. Hamilton. As you can see, hes a slight deviation from the Wesley model:



So...whats next? Im going to skin a basic rig to the models to test if they can do what the are supposed to like arm bends and proper leg deformation when its rotated. If I find the model lacks information in those specific areas, ill update them until im happy..then comes my dreaded UV editing stage. The plan is to have the characters at least modeled, rigged and UV'd before I move on to the set and the million other things. That way I can do their textures as im doing the props and set pieces so that they can all tie into the same visual style.

Best.
Colus

Meet the violinist

Here is the violinist concept and completed model. Im still busy modeling the violin and should be done soon. Only two more characters to go..almost over that hill :) soldiering on.

Colus.

Huggems the bear complete!

I almost lost my bearings :) hehe, Hes done and im happy! He took a bit longer to complete because, like I mentioned earlier.. I was busy moving to a new place and I still have to find another decent coffee shop to go to because the one that I normally work at is now too far away to go to everyday.. very sad but hopefully ill discover some great new places.

So what i did to make him was to take Leonards body up to the neck and cleaned all the clothing lines up...



I took Leonards mouth and Wesley's brow and eyes and just tweaked the hell out of them...



then on top of all that added all the traits and refined until i got this :).






Tomorrow ill be uploading the concept for the next character...so watch this space!

All the best,
Colus