FINISHED!

No more pencils no more books....

Absence & Dreams from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

Here's my final animation for projection time!

Absence and Dreams

Clip from Waking Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYTgTxSoITY

Dali certainly makes me think of dreams...

Portal 2 Vid

Here here here! After many hours of blood and tears...sometimes tears of blood I've finished my portal video. I'm not really happy with it because I had to scrap my original narrative idea due to lack of time, money, and appropriate resources. Switching ideas really stunted this projects progress for a week or two. In this time I was able to bang out some beginning tests, but they were a bit too simple and didn't help me actually figure out what my main problems would be with the piece. Besides the narrative, I wasn't too happy with the match moving, portal look, and masking for the portals. It just gave the whole thing a very unbelievable feel...all of the little bits ended up taking much longer then i though too, so I had to even cut back some of my few ideas. All in all I did learn a bunch about composite nodes and other workings in blender and motion. I would really like to figure out a better process for masking the portals so they look more believable when someone or thing is entering or exiting a portal...
Any way, here it is...enough of my blabbering!

Portal Vid from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

Water test

WooohOOOO Water Text TEST TIME!

Text Water from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

portal tests

Well the portal work has been a bit slower then I was planning, but I keep running into wried things with the match-moving.
Any how here is a test at o of the ways I plan to use the portals in my video!

Portal test from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

I still have some kinks to work out and figure out a better way to have the portal in the background, but I'll figure out something. As for now I just need to get down to shooting my video so i can cut it all together and then fill in my special effects as needed!

rigging tests...

I chose to rig up my old manta and see the difference between shape keying from last term and rigged animation this term...still a bit jerky and I also dropped the frame rate post render to slow it down a bit, but over all I think it's a bit better. The material is kinda screwy but this more more for the motion and not supposed to be a final product.

The new one:

Rigged manta from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

The old one:

Manta Ray Swim from Brad Fish on Vimeo.

Array Vid!

Check this out! I was playing around with all sorts of arrays before I started on this, but as a beginning blender artist the cube really did everything for me! I really enjoy setting up my 3 dimensional array so close together that it looks like the standard blender cube. Any how, though it wasn't so nice on it's own so I developed a little world for the animation to exist in!

Showdown! Cube array from Brad Fish on Vimeo.