So heres some backgrounds I’ve been working on, I’m trying to develop a working method thats nice and quick, I might post about how I’ve made these later on, its a bit of an experiment for me…

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I’ve never felt like character design is m strong point but once in a while I do something I’m happy with…

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More playing with this new project

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So now the MA is all wrapped up its on to commercial work for the time being and for once I’m working on a job where its OK to blog some work in progress, so here goes…

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Congratulations to the amazing Vida Vega for her win at the British Animation Awards yesterday, she absolutely deserves it. Heres her winning commercial, Tempo ‘Bike’.

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Some birds I drew on the tube today…

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So its all done, my graduation film ‘Left Kick’ is finished. Thanks to everyone who helped and poured months of time into the project. Due to NFTS rules I cant put the whole film online until its had a chance to go to the festivals but I will get a trailer together soon. Until then here’s a quick still.

Now, onward with the future

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My pet distraction recently has been writing a Maya plugin called Mayaseed. Right now its a fairly simple translater to convert maya scenes into .appleseed scenes that the Appleseed renderer can play with. Appleseed is an open source renderer written by a good friend François Beaune and a brand new Alpha version should be available to download today with my exporter bundled in with it. Heres a little image made using the first, of many, versions of Mayaseed.

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I’ve been doing some lighting and rendering today…

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Part two of the ongoing experiment into comics, not entirely sure about the colouring, I tried a bunch of different styles and i think this worked best, admittedly it was a bit of an afterthought.

(looking at it the colours are doing some weird banding, I need to look into how to get rid of that, maybe I need to trick the compression with some noise or something)

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