SHOWREEL COMING SOON

In the next few days I will post a show real of my best work!

Meanwhile, I am working on the action cycles for my 3D which will be titled "curiosity helped the cat", and work has been posted on my youtube account at: http://youtube.com/users/cyberPete86

BE SURE TO STAY TUNED FOR MORE!




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REVISED STORYBOARD

I have taken some stills and made them into a movie with captions, to illustrate the key plot points in my animatic. Following is the video:




The storyline is very simple with the key plot points being:

1. Cat chases the ball
2. Cat catches the ball
3. Cat lets the ball slip from its grasp
4. In a return to the original plot point, the cat again chases the ball

The storyline is very neat as the ending is the same as the beginning

DISTORTIONS DURING ANIMATION

Here are some distortions in the mesh I have encountered after my rigging my model. I believe this was caused by my workflow, namely the fact that I didn't hit the FREEZE TRANSFORMATIONS button at the appropriate interval, and also the fact that while modelling the cat, some pieces (especially the head and tongue feature) were not created at the point of origin.

CHARACTER MODEL

Here is my character... he is very cute, and was inspired by the anime cartoon "Azumanga Daioh", which has a very simple plot with very simple characters.

I was inspired by two cat characters that appear throughout the show:

The simple shapes were inspired by the character (co-incidentally called) "Maya"

While the expressions and colours were mainly inspired by "this yellow cat" (he chose to remain anonymous)

CREATING A JUMP CYCLE

Here is a video of a simple jump cycle I have created. I think in reality the bone structure is too complex for my cat-character, as the cat will be extremely cartoon like.

Here is the video:'




The song is "4ever" by "The Veronicas"... The copywrite of this song belongs to someone other than myself