Here is some new wheels on the car, also I have textured the interior and a few other bits so its pretty much there.

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Here is a short film that is at the other end of production to us, having been at it for 4 years is near the end of the line I do believe, a fine effort indeed. Always good to see other 3d artist types making their own shorts whilst in the working world in a similar position to ourselves.

There is a wealth of info on the site including some good tips in the podcasts which are updated quite regularly.

http://www.pigeonimpossible.com/

I’ve started to texture Edgar’s car. As you can see though I haven’t touched the wheels yet, but I’ve had a good go at the main car paint and some of the black stuff.
Also as it was a seperate model in a seperate scene whilst modeling and texturing I thought I’d import it into the junction scene to have a look (as you do). Again it has managed to fit in quite well and no major lighting conflicts with the set up in that scene, which is super duper.

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Busy working and a little bit ill so not getting much done at the weekends too at the moment, so here’s some other info.

For those of you who frequent 3d forums we have a couple of threads which I keep up to date on the big forums, specifically here they are on:

CGTalk

and

3d Total (Threedee)

So feel free to reply to those threads rather than commenting on the blog if thats your thing

The model is pretty much finished apart from a few bits (hello door handle) but I’ve rigged it also, as part of tidying up the model.

Edgar has a car, and I started work on it, its nice and simple, not fancy but not toooo bad - will make a nice texture for it rather than just slapping on a reflection map, he isn’t poor, but perhaps he doesn’t really care about his car - thats the thought.

A few more images from the junction here, including a overview of the whole layout of the environment. From it you can see that as we pre-vis’d the shots first, I have only modelled and textured what you will actually see (even in the other image of Edgar you can see some bits you shouldn’t see in the final thing and aren’t properly textured.

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There are a couple of other things that still need to be made for the animation (not to mention cars) - but otherwise I’ll probably go back to the office environment and work on that some more.

Thought I’d have a wee play and stick in Edgar, our main guy, into the junction scene to see how it works up. He isn’t quite finished, and doesn’t have any textures but its just a wee test.
Edgar was modelled by Tom Cannell who is our animator also.

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Might make the cars soon!

Here is some more, same old, more texturing and some modelling a wee bit here and there and tweaking the lighting/comp a bit

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Might make the cars soon!

Here we go with some more! Again mostly texturing, but some other wee bits here and there.

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