Dekard's 3d/2d Training Progress Thread

Jeremy Lindstrom

-Edit- 07/30/06
Going to make this page my thread similiar to conceptart.org's sketchbook progress threads. I'll be putting my work as I go so you all can see my progress. Crits always welcome, it's the only way to learn!



Of course it's from a tutorial. but anyhow, I'm finally getting into modelling and trying to get comfortable in Maya for classes.. Here's my first real attempt at modelling .. Any crits would be appreciated.




I've still got a ways to go, some suckers on the tentacles, placing the tentacles, the other eye and the other gill.. but it's a start.

cholden

Looks like a fine start. I’d remove every other two edge loops in the tentacles to balance the poly usage with the body. As far as just getting into modeling, this looks like what it’s supposed to be, so good work.

Jeremy Lindstrom

Thanks, will do.. I'm actually going to try and take this one to the finished stage so I can have one completed model.

Jeremy Lindstrom

Just got my new PC, old one kinda went belly up. Anyhow, my adobe gamma is way off. Gotta fix that..

Here's a head I'm working on. Any crits are greatly appreciated, it's my first head model.

tremulant

gnomon lol...yeah looks like its supposed to tho.

Jeremy Lindstrom

yup, i purchased the lowpoly game head and the other modeling the human head videos... takes me forever but it's working... speed will come with practice.. eventually.. hopefully..

Jeremy Lindstrom

Here's that 'nurbs face' model I had to make for class first nurbs head model I've done. One pole is at the mouth the other at the back of the head. Assignment was to make it a stylized/cartoonish look so I did.. now we are in the process of setting up the blend shapes for a lip sync for our mid term. Got 15 seconds of Dr.Evil I'm going to use for him.. anyhow.. it was a little harder then I thought pulling/ppushing cv's for that friggin nurbs sphere head.

Crits, welcome! Thanks.







Too many poly's in the eye and lid, but that's what our instructor asked for, something like 20 sections/20 spans.. just using the sphere's end/begin sweep for the blink..

Ears were an add on (had on my drive from turbosquid I think...)

Jeremy Lindstrom

Ok, I've setup my face and done my first lip sync the head is just tilting completely with the neck we didn't create any IK or anything. I put the teeth in for just reference we weren't supposed to have any teeth or tongue it was just an exercise for the lipsyncing.

Any crits, greatly welcomed. First lipsynch..

..editd...

Jeremy Lindstrom

updated my website, still a little light on images any crits appreciated. Last 3 weeks of this semester going to be kind of busy, doing a 30-45 sec commercial with a animated cg toaster.. a 20 sec body language pencil animation... and a few other projects.. I'll post the toaster animation when I get a little more done.

Jeremy Lindstrom

updated my page with the final lipsync project.

http://www.jeremylindstrom.com/wip/400_facial_anim.zip

any crits appreciated again as seen above it was a single nurbs sphere head with no ik or anything just using blend shapes for the mouth shapes.

conte

funny head, i like

Jeremy Lindstrom

finished a new project for school any crits welcomed. It's already turned in but anything is appreciated.

http://www.jeremytoons.com/wip/400_buddy.zip it's a quicktime movie about 20 megs.

fogmann

Not bad, Dekard. Editing could use some tweaks because the cuts are bit awkward. I'd definitely fine tune animation, it is not particularly smooth. On few places the quick motion just stops for a moment, and that instantly grabs attention, making me think the video stopped playing for some reason. Also, when the toast is falling and when the toaster drops the piece of butter, the falling motion should be much quicker. Give those objects some weight and let the gravity take control.

And Happy Birthday! I hope you have a good one.

tremulant

Hahah, Yeah the animation is decent, But man I loved the end of the Dr evil one HAHa.

Jeremy Lindstrom

thanks, I fixed the pause in the arms. I ran out of time and wasn't able to re-render the butter/toast falling, but plan on fixing that up later. thanks for the crits.

Jeremy Lindstrom

I also upped a pencil test animation we were given 20 seconds of lewis black to animate body language too, no lipsyncing, just body movement. Got this done in a few days.

http://www.jeremytoons.com/wip/400_BodyLanguage.zip

it's about 6 meg..

Should I convert these to avi or mpg and up them to like youtube or something?

Jeremy Lindstrom

Re-working on the gnomon video's got to make a 3000 face character for our class.. I re-worked the eye on this one after taking the pic, it's now just capped I'll texture the eye..

Jeremy Lindstrom

Learned a load from the gnomon vids..

Wires of a 2000 face character for class this week, I was going to use the head above but didn't want to get too stylized as I was warned it might give me trouble when we rig it. Our instructor also wanted us to pose in a 90 degree t stance for easier rigging for now..(Our next assignment)

I know I could have used textures for the belt and straps and possibly done the same for the backpack thing, but I needed some extra faces to get 2000 faces in there...

Crits and suggestions more the welcome.

hobodactyl

Hey man, really good progress! This last model is looking really good! I'm looking forward to the texture!

Psyk0

I think his feet are kind of long and too flat maybe? Not sure you need all them edges on his butt crease. Great progress.

Jeremy Lindstrom

I textured that guy and rigged him up, I'll up those images in a few days, I just posted alot of my work from the life drawing classes I took, any crits or comments greatly appreciated.

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84471

Jeremy Lindstrom

i finished up texturing,rigging and animating my first character via the trax editor, crits welcome

http://www.astrochimp.net/wip/jlindstrom_gunslinger2.mov

assignment was 6 different animatations. walk, run, jump, punch, shoot, idle

not too bad for my first full character, i learned alot and see where I can fix some of my mistakes on my next model.

Crits welcome, I'd like to get much better

notman

lol, nice butt tweak at the end
I think the run could use some more weight to it. Looks like he's skipping/floating. Like you said though, not bad for a first full character

Jeremy Lindstrom

Here's a few animations I've done all keyed... Crits and suggestions welcome. These are all hand keyed, we animated on a post last semester it was a little more dificult animating it from a neutral position on a moving post. But I don't think it was too bad for my first attempts.




http://www.jeremytoons.com/files/lindstrom_push.avi
http://www.jeremytoons.com/files/lindstrom_skip.avi
http://www.jeremytoons.com/files/lindstrom_sneak.avi
http://www.jeremytoons.com/files/lindstrom_walk.avi

Jeremy Lindstrom

Just added another animation, it's a pull animation any crits and suggestions welcomed.

http://www.jeremytoons.com/files/lindstrom_pull.zip (4 meg)

The Umbrella Man

It could just be me, but the guy with the guns on his hip is a little out of proportion. The legs are too short, normally legs should be two torsos long, they look just a bit too short, not much just enough to grab my attention. Someone correct me if I am wrong on this, but thats the only thing I see that's wrong, everything else is pretty class.

Jeremy Lindstrom

Yeah, he's a bit of a munchkin. I should just delete all that stuff it was from back in November, I just updated the thread with the animation stuff today.