I am going to start a 3 years degree for Animation.After that, i want to get experience from local animation TV studios here. But, then i want to move.
Great palettes! Especially love the white statues/green foliage locale. Edit, here this... awesome statuary work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=m9nvnrP0j8U#t=47s
Serriously, he should check out local elemtary schools, it's not like he has high standards when it comes to art. But then again that is most of the beauty of his stuff.
Looks like a world- or local-space normalmap, but you are mapping a character. If it's going to deform (bones, morphs, whatever), you'll probably need tangent-space normals instead.
Gonna go pick it up tomorrow when it's released here in the UK. I tried to grab it early from my local Blockbuster tonight but they weren't having any of it.
Haven't touched maya for 5 years but isn't it because your joints/controler local axis point the same way as your left arm instead of beeing symmetrical ?
jzero, yeah, I remember watching the first one in the local cinema, they released at least another one as a movie too, I remember renting it on video (Betamax naturally.. )