Painting Boris: You won’t believe what this person does to this 3D print

Sorry for the “Upworthy” style heading. I couldn’t help it. :p Over the weekend, I had time to enjoy the simple pleasures of painting, relaxing and watching this 3D printed character come to life. It was a welcome change to spend the days doing something that did not involve the computer. I sat out on […]

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Mr John Crow: A project update

As I was going back and forth through frames on one of the dialogues for Mr. Crow, I took a particular liking for this screenshot….Mr. John Crow, the hand of death, though undead, is pondering over a human skull as if pondering his own mortality…or immortality as it were, as if reminiscing on a life […]

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MICHAEL the Minivan

Greetings, Today, let’s use our Imaginations. Take a deep breath and Imagine the following scenario if you will. You’ve just come home and there is a note stuck to the refrigerator. On the scrap paper is scribbled the following note: “Hello Dear, I’ve gone out for the evening and will be back later tonight. I’ll […]

Introducing: Mr. Crow…John Crow

So this is the last character I will need for my little story…Mr. John Crow. He may or may not be coming for your soul, but if he is, he will be as unnervingly polite about it as possible. He’s pretty much your standard “death” character, but I stayed away from the “grim reaper” look […]

Boris and Bird

So…It’s been hectic for me recently. Between work, this project, planning for an important event and preparing to travel, I’ve been a mess. I am currently in New York visiting family and trying to take the opportunity to relax. Just before I left, I managed to finish the rig for the little Hummingbird character, so […]

MOLLY: The Rig

So I think I’m finally finished with the rig for Molly. Just a few more minor tweaks and I’m DONE. Usually I do a face test with lip sync, but I do not yet have a “voice” for her. I need someone who can do a child REALLY well. Maybe I’ll do a stand in […]

MOLLY: Face Fixes

So I have realized one thing about making a child character: the potential for it to look creepy as hell once you rig the face and start morphing between blendshapes. I had a whole lot of tweaking to do one the skin weights as well to make the blendshapes for the face mesh well and […]

Character #3: MOLLY (wip)

So I continue to trudge on with my characters. I’m now on to Character #3…a little girl named Molly. I should have been posting updates since I started her, but I’ve got too much stuff to do and too little time. So instead, I have compiled all that I have done so far into a […]

Introducing Character 1…Boris

So how did the idea for this particular animation project come about? Where does inspiration come from for such a task to even begin? Answer….This Sketch: This dreadful scan is of a face I doodled on the edge of a piece of paper I was using as a mousepad. I thought it was interesting and […]