MoreShots, and More Fur.. Class 10

For Class 10:
I have completed the fur on the hamster. I concluded it was mainly a grooming and styling issue that I was having, trying to get it less like a box and contour more to the curves of the geometry. I started looking more into how hamsters moved to get the styling down, looking at wear on the fur and where abouts the hamster would scratch to get the right look. Compared to the images below ( on mondays post) i feel as if i have made significant progress on such descriptions.




For this project ihave also decide to just a still image as my background plate instead of a actual video file. As much as i would like to use a video plate i feel as if time is against me and to get all of that together will hinder my progress. I will plan on coming back to this next quarter to place the hamster in a moving / life action plate.

Also a turntable is in the dropbox.

Along with the fur.. I have continued work on "Sucker".. the animation project i am working on. I have competed 2 shots as closely as I am able to at this point. One is the boy squinting.. I have reworked it from the previous posts to come together for a more cleanly lit, and looking ( skin wise) shot. With this shot done.. the rig can be used to light and fix the skin problems on 3 more shots.. There for in reality I have more done than expected. I am just waiting on rendering them for finalized animations..


Along with the squint I have rendered and completed a rig for the "Violin Playing" scene. This is the longest scene in the short, and is almost completed animation wise. I have a feeling this is going to be our first fully finished shot. Then this will put us ahead of schedule in a way..

Unfortunatly we have been having issues with file clean up and crashes due to it.. There are of problems we have encountered as of right now based on these issues.. and working to solve them. I have begun the process of cleaning all of the files but it is a larger task than expected.

Also the hair systems are being reworked.. i was planning on having the boy hair rendered and comped into the shot.. but i was having difficulites attaching thehair to the rig and having it scale properly.. seeign this is not my specialty .. nor do i really know anything about it.. i will be talking to a rigger / our hair artist ASAP to figure this problem out.

Both rendered scenes are in the drop box...