Fish eagle rigging

I now needed to rig the fish eagle.  As I was not sure how many joints to place in its wings, I used this video as a reference.

When I rigged the fish eagle, there were quite a few issues such as the wings moving with the tail and the feet moving with the wings and tail, but I resolved these by putting quite a lot of work into the painting weights.

Wednesday 1st December!!!!! Group Meeting!!!

Hi guys i am writing to tell you all that i am calling a group meeting on wednesday 1st December. Modelling should be finished by then and then we will be starting the next stage of creating our layout of our environment. I want everyone in and that includes Perri (make sure you dont read the date wrong WEDNESDAY 1ST DECEMBER).

Also Perri we were not able to do our formative because you did not arrive so i expect an apologie to the group in person on wednesday :) I also presume there is no problem with the modelling due to the fact i have not heard from you so i expect to see that wednesday.

cheers Gary

Scenery Texturing

Here are the models that I have fully textured, using Shaded Brightness Two Tone and Three Tone textures.

With the mountain texture, I had a go at creating the sense of light leaving the surface, through key framing the ramp shade of the texture.

Ocean shader test

Here is another ocean shader test I just did, in order to complement the style that we are going for.  This still looks quite realistic, but I have increased the diffuse to increase the vibrancy.

A few tests with enviroment

Yo guys alex put the environmental modelling on the a drive account so i decided to do a few tests and see how they work with the characters so here is a few images.

Lion model complete

Here is the lion model that I have just rigged and textured.

It is now available in the Adrive account, under the folder 'Finished models', along with the Rhino and Wildebeest.

Quick rhino animation and cel shading test!!!

This is a quick animation test for the rhino and exloring the use of cel shading. its a quick one but i wanted to show that things are working and what is possible in just a few minutes.