Bouncing Ball

Here's a quick experiment I did with a ball. For this experiment I followed a sequence of drawn images and used them for reference when producing the bouncing ball movie in 3D Studio Max.

Final Animation

Heres my final animation for my invisible architecture project. Hope you like it. Please post comments on what you think, so I can built on it.

Thankyou.

Melvin Scan

Here is a clip I created using Adobe After Effects. It shows the progressive scan from wire frame view of the model to the final textured model.

Meerkat Lip Sync

This is an animation I did based on a short sound clip from the Will Farrell movie 'Anchorman'. I created this animation using a phoneme library which I had built previously for my meerkat model.

Ball and Tail

This is a short experiment I did when I was looking at how a tail interacts when it is attached to an object through it's movement.

Mack Bones

This is a short animation which I created based on the rig for my dog. To create the rig for my dog I used the 3ds max bone system. In this animation I've tried to inherit the real movement for a dog when they walk, sit and beg but in a more comical way. Enjoy.

Melvin 360

Here's a 360° view of my model which I have taken into Adobe After Effects and applied the rings emmiting from the base of the model and the text which appears from the bottom left corner.

Melvin Walk

Above is a short animation I created of my character walking. I plan to produce a short animation using this character. The storyline ideas are still in the process of being thrown about so I haven't decided on which one to go with yet. I'll keep you up to date on the ideas, hopefully I will have a short animation posted soon enough.

Melvin Textures

Here are the texture maps that I used on my model and also some renders which I saved whilst working on the character.

Melvin Progress

Firstly, I worked on the characters head. I started with half a cylinder at the base of the neck, then worked my way up the head. Whilst working on one half of the model I added symmetry to the modifier stack so I could see what the finished head would look like once I had mirrored and welded the two halves together.



Secondly, I started with the same shape as the head, the half a cylinder and used the same methods of extruding and modifying the vertices to fit the concept.


Then I did the hair and glasses. The method I used to create these parts of the character was box modelling. I started off with the basic cube model and extruded and bevelled the squares until I ended up with the parts for my character.


As you can see from the concept, the arms were drawn by the side of the model. But then I thought about it and realised that if I modelled it this way, I would have major problems when it came to the bones and skinning stage. So for the arms I extruded outwards from the original top part of the body I created earlier, which meant I had to visualise where the arms would fall if I raised them up to the 3d character model pose.


For the trousers I used the same method as the head and top part of the body. For the shoes I used the box modelling technique which I used for the hair and glasses.


For the textures of my character I used the UVW unwrap tool to generate a texture map for me to draw on in Phototshop. In my next post you will see a copy of the original UVW map and the modified one which I created.
I wanted to have a play around in Photoshop so that my model had various t-shirt designs.



The bones system in my model is a basic one containing 3 spine bones, a neck bone, a head bone, 2 arms, a wrist bone, 2 legs, an ankle bone and two foot bones. I used the IK Limb modifier for the legs to allow me easier movement when animating the model.


I developed a library of phonemes for my model. This will enable my character to talk and I can then lip sync to the imported voice over and sounds.



Here's the finished character. I set up a look at constraint for his eyes by creating text and a circle, then converting them to editable splines. I then attached them together and converted them to editable mesh. This allowed ammore realistic movement of the eyes and it also allowed me to know which area in the scene my character will be looking at.


Thanks for looking.
Any comments will be greatly appreciated and if you have any questions I will be more than happy to answer them.

Melvin Concept

Here is a concept that one of my friends at university, Ian Portsmouth (badogredesigns.blog.com), drew. I plan to create this into a 3D Model using 3ds max.

New Improved Meerkat

Here is a new picture of my meerkat. I have worked on the model from my previous post, which can be seen in the animation and kenetics post.

Hair and Fur Tests

I wanted to learn about the hair and fur modifier intergrated within 3ds max. So I had a play around with the settings on a model I created based on myself.
On the top example, I was experimenting to find the correct hairstyle for my model. The bottom example is my final hairstyle, which includes the texture for my model. Enjoy.

X-Wing

Being a big fan of Star Wars - I had to do it, I had to create the x-wing.
It was a personal project out of university hours. I plan to texture the finished model, so keep a look out for the finished piece and maybe some more Star Wars models.

Cotton Pirate Animations

Below are a series of short videos which I created for my cotton pirate. I have listed each of the videos below to show you the animation which is taking place in each.





This is a 360° view of my model.



This is the start of my first shoot, the episode 'Curious'.



This is my walk cycle for the character.



This is my run cycle for the character.



Here is a short trip/fall animation.

Cotton Pirate

Here are some images of a little character I designed after gaining inspiration from the PS3 game Little Big Planet. The idea for this little character is for him to have a series of short animations where each one defines a word. The first animation is called 'Curious', the second will be 'Overboard' and it will follow on to create the word Cotton Pirate.
It is something which will appeal to a younger audience, teaching them about certain words through the art of animation.

Virtual Enviroments

These are a series of images I created to support an essay I did which included the discussion on cloning. I gained the inspiration for this piece from the latest Resident Evil movie. The scene is at the end when there is a camera shot of a container which is filled with cloning pods.

Logo

I created this logo for a project whilst studying for my HND Multimedia. The project, Self Promotion, was to create an identity for yourself which would establish you and get you noticed in the industry. My interests are films, games and 3d. Therefore, I came up with the name 3d Instinct.

Terragen Enviroments

Here are four pictures of landscapes which I created using the program Terragen.

Cowboy and Town

Here are a couple of models I created in 3d for my HND Multimedia. They were initially developed to be part of an A2 piece which was to be displayed in a final show for the University. They were also used as a section in my final design to display my 3d skills.

Intermediate Studio Part 2 Animation

Following on from the book I made earlier on in the project, the second part was to develop an animation to run alongside the book and relate to it.
For my animation I decided to take one of the stencils used for my grafitti and show it being sprayed onto the side of a box. From this the grafitti would them morph out into a 3d element, as though it was coming to life.
This is the outcome, minus the effects i.e. paw prints, paintdrips and splats.

3DS Max Rip Test

This is a piece I'm working on for a project at University. I wanted to make a sketch that I had drawn to have the feeling it is being torn in half.

P_Flow Fire Test

Above is a tutorial which I followed to generate fire using particle flow. I played around with the materials to create the blue fire effect, seen below.