more progress, im quite happy with the way the character is developing, looking more professional now and less quick mock up.

moddeling

yep, worked on my character more and have done a version where he has a more human looking body, al tho in my presentation i said i didnt want this much, i might be changing my mind, as a generic man character, to portray 2 different characters and posibly more, but all tho i ike the way he looks, i still feel, as he is a machine like character he should have a more 'bare skeletal' like look, when he is not playing any characters.

evidence of me working hard

todays productivity

yeh, ive been working on my character, i have come up with this so far, im still going to have a go with making a character in nurbs, but i just havnt had chance to properly understand them. My character has to be some kind of human oid which acts towards audio that comes out of his mouth, (the audio beeing from some carefully chosen film clips) i have yet to decide what i plan to do with the audio, whether make separate clips or make him sound insane, by splicing them together, i think the second option would work better, i just need to get some good audio tho. I have collected some already, but need to go through it thoroughly.

IK handles

yeh, heres a screen shot of my research of ik handles, as i had problems with such complex geometry, and i have solved my problem, well almost.

camp robot

I have accidentally posed my mock character into a very camp pose, so i gave him some props to work with.

Welcome back

well now ive been back just under 2 weeks now, and it sucks as we are not in every day, as i tend to easily get distracted at home.
Anyway, i now know what i am doing for the first project, as before i was in two minds before on what to do, i had two main ideas, and now i have decided between the two. Ok since i want to be a 3d animator, i have to work hard at doing some kind of animation. So for the first project i am going to work on some character animation. One of my main initial ideas was to use some existing audio from some well known films, and use it with a character, and this character originally is a robot of some kind, which acts to some audio that comes out of a speaker of his, in his mouth. I have yet to change my actual character to be more of an organic form, but at least i know what im going to do. I have yet to see the animated film wall-e, as i have been told there is a similar thing in this film, im gunna try and go see it as soon as poss.

Here is a still render of a character that i have been working on already, in relation to this first project, this is just a mock up, and isnt a final design, even though it is close. ;)