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Modeling/Texturing Finished

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Finally finished with the modeling/texturing. Again, Kim Hazel modeled the head and hair based off my designs/sculpt and I modeled the body and textured the entire character. There's still a few tweeks to the texture I need to make, but for the most part it's done.

The next step is to rig him up and create his blendshapes. Also, plenty of things still do do in other parts of the project.

The trailer for "Ratchet and Clank Future 2: A Crack in Time" is out! For those interested, I do have a few shots of gameplay in there and one cinematic shot (the one of Dr. Nefarious saying "part of me wants to let you live long enough to find out. The other part...really wants to KILL you!!").

The animation in this game is definitely some of the best in the games industry and in my opinion some of it rivals film! But then again...i have a somewhat biased opinion.

Be sure to check it out when its released later this year!

Click on the image to play trailer

New Side Project

Ive been working on modeling a new character for a side project. Here is a paintover of the mesh so far. Hopefully ill be able to post the 3D version soon enough.

Ive been getting a tremendous amount of help from Kim Hazel, who has modeled the entire head based off my sculpt. The body was left for me to work out.

Paintover

Model


Sculpt

Acceptance into the San Diego International Children's Film Festival at Comic-Con

I was notified a few days ago that i was accepted into the San Diego International Children's Film Festival at Comic-Con! The festival takes place July 24-Aug. 16 at the San Diego Museum of Art, Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, the Carlsbad Dove Library and the New Children's Museum in downtown San Diego.

"Scratch" will screen Sunday July 26 in our custom theater in Room 10 at Comic-Con International.

The teaser trailer for Ratchet and Clank Future 2: A Crack In Time was released last week. Here is a link to an HD version:

http://www.gamershell.com/tv/18370.html

The first half with all the internal clock workings was done entirely by Ryan Kamins and the second half, with the character that takes off into the distance, was animated by Corey Peagler. Cant wait till its released and i can show you more stuff! Gonna be cool!

EDIT: I had originally credited Grant with the first half of the teaser. I was incorrect! It was Ryan Kamins.

Ratchet & Clank Future 2: A Crack In Time

Well folks, it's officially been announced-the game i've been working on for the past few months is none other than Ratchet and Clank Future 2: A Crack in Time (whew, mouthful!). Its gonna be a great game and diehard R&C fans will most definitely love it!

The Teaser will debut tomorrow night on SpikeTV on gametrailers. If you miss it, it should be on the web by next week.

Accepted into the Burbank International Film Festival

"Scratch" was accepted to be screened at the Burbank International Film Festival for 2009! The screenings will take place March 26th through the 29th at the Warner Bros. Studios Screening Rooms! If you're able to make it, I hope to see you there!

"Scratch" will be screened on Saturday at 3:06 PM in screening room 12.

http://www.burbankfilmfestival.org/

A friend of mine, Mike Munoz, from the Art Center Design College in Tucson, AZ has been working on a rigging machine for a couple of months now. It's shaping up to be a really strong tool.

It works very similar to other auto-rigging tools, where you are given the controls and loators, you place them where you want and hit the rig button. It has all the features i enjoy in a rig. Where this machine really shines is in the face setup. Yes, that's right...it has an auto face setup. Any kind of character you can think of, it should be able to rig. And not only that, it has a fair amount of range. Whether your character is cartoony or realistic, it is able to achieve an apporpriate level os "pose pushing".

Keep an eye on his blog for updates!

http://eleazermunoz.blogspot.com/

First Week at Insomniac

Im working on my first series of shots for Insomniac's newest game! I can't tell you what it is but I can say it's gonna be great! The rigs are a joy to work with and the animation and art in general is wonderful to look at. The kind of animation that makes you want to just find the nearest computer and start animating!

Everything about my first week here at Insomniac has been great. The people here are incredible artists and are all extremely nice as well. It's very cool and intimidating (in a good way) to be at a studio where everyone...and i mean everyone is phenomenal at what they do. Every monitor i walk by has beautiful art on it. It's a race just to keep up for me but im lovin every second of it and im happy to be able to learn from these talented people!

Goin' to California with an achin' in mah heart...

That's right folks! I just accepted a job offer earlier today from Insomniac Games, based out of Burbank, California! I got a job as an associate animator and I'm incredibly thrilled to be a part of a stellar team of artist and a wonderful company!

Insomniac is the company behind such great titles as Ratchet and Clank, Spyro the Dragon and Resistance. They've also been named one of the top 10 small businesses to work for in the U.S. 3 years in a row! For more info on them, check out their website and be sure to go out and buy Ratchet and Clank Future:Tools of Destruction and Resistance 2.

September 11 Second Club Entry

This is my entry for September's 11 Second Club Monthly Animation Competition

Acceptance into MotionFest '08

More good news! "Scratch" has been accepted to screen at MotionFest '08! Hope to see some of you there!

Figure Drawings

Figure Drawings

Figure Drawings

Acceptance into the 2008 Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival

I was notified a few days ago that i was also accepted into the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival! Very exciting news!

Acceptance into the 2008 Student Shorts Film Festival

I was just notified that i was accepted into the 8th Annual 2008 Student Shorts film Festival in Toronto! Over 400 films entered and only 42 were selected. Im very proud to be a part of it and im excited to see all the other great films! Maybe ill see some of you there!

www.studentshorts.com

Latest Project

Here is the project i've been working on right up until it was time to go to FJORG!!! Me and two other students wanted to do an intro for the Art Center Design College Student Demo Reel going to SIGGRAPH. I was responsible for the character design and animation, Mike Munoz was in charge of modeling and rigging (truly awesome rig) and Brad Wright did modeling and some texturing. Im really proud of the outcome! As a side note, i completed all the animation for this shot in a little over one week!

FJORG!!!!!!!!!

My team (Fantastic Fjorgers) took 2nd place at this years FJORG competition!!!! The prizes included Gnomon Workshop DVD's, Digital Tutor gift certificates, Toonboom studio, new graphics cards and the best...an insiders tour at Disney and Dreamworks and lunch with the animation leads, production assistants and the heads of character animation at Dreamworks!!!!! Purty sweet!

Thanks to Disney and Dreamworks for sponsering the event and to Patricia Beckman-Wells, Becky Wible Searles and all the other people who made it possible!

(In case you dont know what FJORG is, its a 32 hour animation iron man competition. Teams of 3 are given a topic and 32 hours to create the best story they can. To see the films, head over here and click on the team names to download the films:

www.siggraph.org/s2008/attendees/fjorg