Personal Work: Tate Modern Giacometti Sketches

A few days ago I visited Tate Modern to visit the Giacometti exhibition. I was very excited to see this exhibition because Alberto Giacometti is my favourite artist. It's been quite a while since I drew, so I took the opportunity to sketch some of his work I got to see. I enjoyed being able to be really rough and loose with the sketches (partially due to the lack of seating and because I had family with me so I didn't want to take too long) and I'm happy how a few of them came out. It was nice to get back into drawing since I feel a bit rusty with it.

Dysmorphia: Adjustments #2

I tried messing around with the Motion Blur in After Effects some more again. I think these results are better than my previous two, but I'm still somewhat unsure if it's making any difference and if it does - is it better than my original film without the blurring. I feel I can still see some jerkiness to it but I can't tell if that's just from me looking at it for too long. Either way, if I update my film with some blurring or not I'm happy with the results but I figured I'd post the adjustments I've been experimenting with.

CG Toolkit Submission: Film Reviews, Maya Tutorials, Acting & Sculpting (2016/2017 -Term 2/3)

Film Reviews:

World Animation

Australia: Mary and Max

Japan: Spirited Away

India: Sita Sings The Blues

Israel: Waltz With Bashir

France & Iran: Persepolis

United Kingdom: Ethel & Ernest

Ireland: The Secret of Kells

America: Kubo and the Two Strings

Maya Tutorials:

Lighting & Rendering

Mental Ray Part 1: Samples & Quality Control

Mental Ray Part 2: Final Gather

Mental Ray Part 3: Linear Work Flow

Mental Ray Part 4: Physical Sun & Sky

Mental Ray Part 5: Portal Lights

Mental Ray Part 6: Mia Material X Shader

Mental Ray Part 7: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Lighting

Mental Ray Part 8: Displacement Maps

Mental Ray Part 9: Ambient Occlusion

Mental Ray Part 10: Motion Blur

Mental Ray Part 11: Mental Ray Proxies

Pipeline 1: UV Layout & Maps

Part 1: Head & Head Details

Part 2: Body & Exporting Maps

Pipeline 1: Spine & Skinning

Part 1: Building a Ribbon Spine

Part 2: Building a Skeleton

Part 3: Binding & Weight Grouping the Mesh

Part 4: Blending the Upper Body

Part 5: Blending the Lower Body

Part 6: Adding Pose Space Deformers (Corrective Blend Shapes) Upper Body

Part 7: Adding Pose Space Deformers (Corrective Blend Shapes) Lower Body

Pipeline 1: Body Rigging

Part 1: Feet & Legs

Part 2: IK / FK Spine

Part 3: Arms & Fingers

Part 4: Colours & Restrictions

Pipeline 1: Facial Rigging (Pt. 1)

Part 1: Creating a Head Skeleton & Binding

Part 2: Creating Head Controls & An Eye Look Rig

Part 3: Creating a Flexible Mouth Rig 1

Part 4: Creating a Flexible Mouth Rig 2

Part 5: Creating a Flexible Mouth Rig 3

Pipeline 1: Facial Rigging (Pt. 2)

Part 6: Adding Teeth & A Tongue

Part 7: Lateral Mouth Movement Part 1

Part 8: Lateral Mouth Movement Part 2

Part 9: Adding Cheek Thinning

Pipeline 1: Facial Rigging (Pt. 3)

Part 10: Adding Extra Face Movement

Part 11: Adding a Blink

Part 12: Brow Movement

Part 13: Cleaning Up the Scene

Pipeline 1: Texturing

Part 1: High & Low Res Modelling for Normal Maps

Part 2: Baking Normal Maps

Part 3: Rivets

Part 4: Body Base Colours

Part 5: Head Base Colours / Sub Surface Scattering

Part 6: Head Texturing

Part 7: Body Texturing

Part 8: Finishing up the Scene

Pipeline 1: Turnarounds

Part 1: Creating a Turnaround

Dope Sheets:

Using Dope Sheets I

Using Dope Sheets II

Using Dope Sheets III

Acting

March 15th, 2017

March 22nd, 2017

March 29th, 2017

Sculpting

Traditional Sculpting Lessons

Maya Pipeline 1: Creating a Turnaround

This is the final tutorial for the Jetpack Jones character. I enjoyed working on him and I think I learned a lot, especially from errors that I made throughout the tutorials. It's nice to see the character put together in this turnaround, I'm pretty happy with how he came out overall despite some of the mistakes I made along the way. Even though I did not follow a similar pipeline during my Adaptation project, I think this character was good practice so I'm not too behind in future projects. I hope it shows I have the capability to do 3D modelling, rigging/skinning, texturing, and so on.

Jetpack Jones Turnaround from Deanna Crisbacher on Vimeo.

Maya Pipeline 1: Texturing - Finishing Up The Scene (Part 8)

This tutorial is the final one in the texturing set. I first had to clean up any extra objects and layers that were used to create the textures in Mudbox. Then, the rim highlights were edited so the ramps were connected to the texture map files rather than just being grey highlights. Since this created strange visuals in the viewport, a control was created to turn off the rim highlights when they weren't needed. An additional light was added to give the character some extra shine on his eyes as well, which was then connected to the same control as the rim highlight. I can now progress onto the turnaround tutorial.