A lot has been going on since last update. I've been learning French, learning to render in Mental Ray, been working on a still life, working on my next shortfilm, thinking about modeling and rigging some animals, changing computer from XP to 7, re-install programs, as well as some personal stuff been going in my life that I've been having to deal with.
Firstly, I've been looking at Digital Tutors and watching some of the tutorials on rendeing in Mental Ray and some of the lighting. So, with what I've learned, I've went back to my still life I made a while back and re-textured, re-lit, added some more detail to some of the model. This is the result:
I've been working on some rigging projects. I've created some biped and fish type characters, but not really any animal rigs. So, I've been wanting to do a quadruped and a flying creature. I've limited the options to either a cat, a cheetah, or a wolf for quadruped; a macaw for a bird. I love cheetahs, because they're skinny and fast, I used to have a little cat, I have a story idea for some wolf characters, and the macaws are just cool, they're colorful!
Since choosing these animals, I have done some research and looked up the skeletons for these creatures. Knowing where the joints are and how long bones are is basics of the basics. Especially important for birds, since I'm not very familiar with birds.
The other thing I'm working on is a shortfilm. It's going to be called Possession (working title). I've been working on the shortfilm off and on for the last five years, never really happy with the story, hopefully I will be able to get a story more grounded. So, I'm going to start working on the sotry and script.
