Current Projects

All too often I am working on more than one project at a time, which just as often means I lose sight of what I was doing or that I was even doing it.

Not a good thing, by any means. So I decided I needed a place to keep track of my current projects, so I don’t end up forgetting a project as I work on others.

Perry the Sheep (short animation)

It would seem that I have been talked into creating a short animation of a cartoon character that my 16 year old daughter has developed. So stay tuned for further developments.

Stages I will have to go through (or more accurately, stages I should go through):

• Storyboarding
• Character design
• Modeling of character (1/2 done)
  • rigging of character
  • texturing and materials
• Building of simple set
• Lighting
• Posing and Animating of Perry
• Tons of polishing and refinement
• Final renders

Bumper Bash

A bumper car game I am creating with Blender’s game engine.

Captain Blender

I am working my way through Tony Mullen’s book “Introducing Character Animation with Blender”.

Captain Blender Chapters Progress

• Blender Basics: Interface & Objects
• Working With Meshes
• Completing the Model with Materials, Textures & Particles
• Armatures & Rigging
• Shape Keys & Facial Rigging
• Basics of Animation
• Armature Animation
• Facial Animation& Lip Sync
• Nonlinear Animation
• Further Issues in Character Animation
• Lighting, Rendering & Editing your Animation

Lighting Studies

A series of discussions covering my study of lighting in general, and better use of lighting tools and techniques in blender.

Areas I want to take a look at:

• Lighting and Rendering by Jeremy Birn
  • lighting concepts that can be applied to blender
  • exercises from the book, done from blender
• BSoD: Lighting
  • series of exercises that were written for BSoD: Lighting
• Analyzing various scenes and image setups to understand the lighting used and why.