JournalJournalhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2012-01-16T08:07:30ZSquarespaceSmoke Golemhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2012/1/16/smoke-golem.htmlPeter Kachtik2012-01-16T08:06:19Z2012-01-16T08:06:19Z

]]>Crescent Beardhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2012/1/13/crescent-beard.htmlPeter Kachtik2012-01-13T07:33:22Z2012-01-13T07:33:22ZCouldn't sleep.  Did a drawing.

]]>Lady Spyhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2012/1/8/lady-spy.htmlPeter Kachtik2012-01-08T06:46:10Z2012-01-08T06:46:10ZA new post for a new year!

My girlfriend wanted me to make a cartoon version of her, so I turned her into a 1940's spy.  Enjoy.

 

]]>Flash Demonstrationhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/4/2/flash-demonstration.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-04-02T05:47:08Z2011-04-02T05:47:08ZThis Friday I did a brief demonstration of Flash-based character animation at the Austin School of Film.  In preparation, I designed a generic character (seen below) and animated him in a basic walk-cycle and a brief fight with some sort of scary monster thing.  They're short and pretty basic, but they proved useful for illustrating many of the basic principles of animating characters using Flash puppets.  Enjoy.

 

Character Design:

Walk Cycle:

 

Monster Scene:

]]>Revised Character & Random Ruminationhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/3/1/revised-character-random-rumination.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-03-01T09:30:58Z2011-03-01T09:30:58ZRandom Rumination:

The frustrating thing about practice is that you don't practice for 1 hour and get 0.1% better, and then 2 hours and get 0.2% better.  Instead, you practice for 50 hours and get no better at all and then during the 51st hour you have a minor epiphany and get 10% better all at once...and then stay that way until the next epiphany comes after 20, or 30, or 50 hours more practice.

Revised Character:

]]>Character Concepthttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/2/15/character-concept.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-02-15T21:23:59Z2011-02-15T21:23:59Z

 

]]>Character in processhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/1/25/character-in-process.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-01-26T05:18:42Z2011-01-26T05:18:42Z

]]>Golem & Glasshttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/1/12/golem-glass.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-01-12T12:36:50Z2011-01-12T12:36:50ZA more posed composition with the steam golem & a glass version of the Blender monkey.

]]>Steam Golemhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/1/10/steam-golem.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-01-10T16:46:13Z2011-01-10T16:46:13ZSpent the weekend working on another 3D character and turn around.  It's slow going right now because for every new thing I want to do in Blender I have to spend hours watching online tutorials or reading pages of how-to's.  For this model I had to learn UV Unwrapping and and delve a little deeper into the arcane subject of armature rigging.  I think I'm starting to hit my stride, though...at least, until I wade into the morass of node editing or 3D animation...

]]>3D model turn-aroundhttp://www.roamingground.com/journal/2011/1/6/3d-model-turn-around.htmlPeter Kachtik2011-01-06T17:19:41Z2011-01-06T17:19:41ZYikes!  Almost a month since my last post!  Bad, blogger, bad!

So, a recent work project got me fiddling with Blender, the open-source 3D rendering program, again.  In my spare time I decided to work on my character modelling skills.  This is my first pass at a full-body 3D character (at least as far as I can remember).  

I'm not terribly happy with it, stylistically speaking, but it was fun to work on and I learned a lot, so I'm hopeful that my next try will be more interesting.

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