jonathantopf.com http://www.jonathantopf.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:52:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 background WIP http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/04/17/background-wip/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/04/17/background-wip/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:19:13 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1849 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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]]> http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/17/congratulations/feed/ 0 Birds http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/01/birds/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/01/birds/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:29:30 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1824
Some birds I drew on the tube today…

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]]> http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/01/birds/feed/ 0 Left Kick http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/01/left-kick-2/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/03/01/left-kick-2/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:37:32 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1817
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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