Jan/Feb - hporter - Norm
 

I havent had much Maya time lately so I was delaying entering the comp... but I am jumping in now in the 11th hour. After lurking and seeing all the great enteries I became so inspired to play, I couldnt resist anymore.

with that said, time to get to work! here are my first concepts.

fantastic! I hope you finish!

final concept - offensive content
 

I was looking for something with no redeaming qualities. I think I found it.

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hehe i should get you to draw me a side view and front view of my skeleton guy... Love the concepts mate....

Thanx guys - Kurt your skeleton guy? Sure! I will do it -

I started this last night so I have a few progress shots already-

here is the first

and second...

another...

hehe that looks great dude.... your going to kick my ass in a few weeks your skills are awesome...

lol....fantastic! (sorry mike for using you word, couldn't think of anything more appropriate

i was laughing while i was reading... its really good. i love your concept. HAHAHAHA.... its crazy and i like it :D

nice drawing too...

and this is the last :D

hahahah bloody brillant..... I want to animate him now muhahahahahahah


Might want to give him/her little bit wider hands thay are really small....

good one kurt- his hands do look way too small and ankles too. I am off to tweak em' and rig the beast too

Kurt your character doesnt need to be redone - your drawing os great! I will take a crack at it if you like but I think it is really nice the way it is.

No worries bud.... I'll use that one thanks... But for future SM project i'll see if i can use you=).... You will see what it is for soon=)

Kewl man, I am so down for that!

some very minimal blend shapes- I did the hand and ankle tweeks in them too

Cool mate... Put a smooth on him so i can see his shapes a bit better.....


Blends are fun i just finished a lip sync tut this week had a blast making the character say Simplymaya.com rocks.

ok- smoothed- added blends and rigged the bastard.

onward to the animating, this is wherenthings get messy for me:confused:

Look! its the love child of a califonia rasin, and Mike (from monsters inc) :) lol jk man. Looks great,

Brian

haha cool colours howard :D

yeah, he does look like mike ate a california raison and passed him through his digestive system. yuck

I cant believe I am wasting precious hours of my lif on this...

here is the intro to his special move

Howard, you are a sick sick puppy.

heheh... great start..... the animation is a little floaty when hes jumping out of the bowl speed it up a bit.. The landing is not bad=)

k- I agree, I am very new to the animation part. but I sure am having fun with it :-)

also I am changing what the character is... I couldn't stomach looking at him anymore.

he is now a meatball, all I have to do is shift his color to be more red :-) less offensive and the wife will let me back into the house this way. heh heh

HHEEHEHE but i liked the poop.... Let me know if you need some help or suggestion in the animation..

Great stuff

Kurt I actually have a question about setting keys. I get an unwanted motion when I set 3 or more keys. it ends up over shooting the second keyed mark and then slides back into it. I tried clamping the keys but am having no luck :-( I also tried every other key option with out any luck, whats the trick?
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edited the character- now he is hitman :-)

Looking forward to seeing a meat bRawl. ;)

lol!

funny and sick at the same time but very cool! can't wait to see the final result Howard

When setting keys especially with a character moving his body (feet and root) I key each one of the foot controls as well as the root each time I want to set a key. You are correct about making sure the keys are clamped, this alone helps with the slipping.

Do you use auto key?

Think about it in this way.. for your character to move correctly his root and feet need to move together as one, so when moving a character say is walking/jumping you have to make sure that all 3 sections are keyed at the same spot if all three are not keyed at the same point you will get a slip effect.

Its a bit hard to explain in words took me a while to get it under my belt... this problem only really happens to me when im doing a walk and forget to key the three togther when its not cycled. I just make sure I Key the feet and root each time my character moves forward. I actually key not just auto key for the three sections.

If you can't figure out what i mean let me know and i'll make a quick tut to help out.


Kurt

LOL really funny stuff.. don't blame you for changing to get back inthe house. LOL

Wow, very original character. I like the texture job and like the background story and the name...Meat Bawl ..lol.

Love the animation mate, and the sense of humour.

LOL very funny...nice work man!

btw, where'd you learn to draw concept art like that? really good!

heh, well, Howard's a professional comic book artist, so it's no surprise his concept work would be pretty killer. :)

thanx guys!- spekkio- mikes right, I draw comics during the day, but at night I learn Maya from Mike and Kurt: via the videos on this site (shameless plug:)) I have been drawing my entire life and studied illustration in college. I still have along way to go, art is a lifetime journey.

tonight I gave him a gun and a cigar, whats a soprano-type guy without those anyway?

edit: I cant add pics no more?

image: http://howardporter.com/meaty_b.jpg

NICE !! fitting accents to this one's persona.

hehehe, reminds me of The Godfather...dunno why