Had Time To Do Some Work On T-Boom!

Hey guys,

Had some time over the last couple of days to work on animating T-Boom. As you can see, there is no pic or video accompanying this post. :(

Not to worry though. I did a lot of work, just nothing noticeable. The problem is getting his clothing to move with his body and have it look right. It's funny, but T-Boom is the only character without form fitting clothing in this movie. His hood, vest and shorts all hang loose and that is giving me some trouble with rigging his movements.

So, despite there not being anything visually to post I feel I've done a lot of work this week. That said, I'm still not close enough to actually being able to animate him. I know, that sounds like a contradiction. I've done a lot but nothing noticeable, but it's true.

Got family in town this weekend so I don't think I'm gonna get a whole lot done this week.

As always, if I have anything to post I will post it.

Another Week of Not Doing Much!

Sorry guys,

I wish I could say I made progress this weekend but the truth is I as sick most of the weekend and didn't even touch the movie.

I hope to get more done this week and will certainly post anything worth reporting.

Hang in there. I'm still working!

Didn't Do Much This Weekend!

Hey guys,

Sorry, but I don't have anything new to report since I really didn't do much on the movie this weekend. I did work on the T-Boom model some more, touching up the hoodie and cleaning up the object mesh, but other than that I pretty much took the weekend off.

I did start working on rigging the hoodie with the rest of the model but I pretty much figured out it's gonna be a little more involved than I previously thought and the truth is that I was pretty worn out from a long couple of weeks at work.

So, I took the weekend off, for the most part. I needed a break and took advantage of a long weekend and just chilled.

No worries though, I'm still working on the movie and fully expect to hit it hard this coming weekend.

As always, I'll keep you posted.

Well, Still Working on the T-Boom Model!

Well, what can I say?

As usual, just when I think I'm getting somewhere I discover something is wrong.

Just like every other time I've tried to animate a newly finished model, I was working with animating the T-Boom model and I discovered the hoodie was completely messed up. This caused me to have to rebuild the hoodie model.

As far as I can tell, I've fixed the problems. So, how does it look?

You decide...



Not too different except I was able to add the stripe at the bottom of the hoodie, something I had done before but had to drop. This time I got to keep it.

So, now I have to rig the hoodie to match T-Boom's movements. Not terribly difficult, as long as this new hoodie doesn't have any problems.

As always, I'll keep you informed.