"he’s a wizard with uncanny powers, but this guy is so evil, as soon as he came out of the womb, he put a scar on his own forehead."

well,

some frames.

about 95% done on setting these shots up. still have to tweak some things to speed up my render times.

hopefully ill have this and several other shots all set up to begin rendering out sequences this week.

word.

"the boys have to admit, this creature posing as a humanoid has some chops, definitely some chops, indeed. "

so, slowly but surely, progress. i guess.

this is a test image of the o.r. for the flashbacks in the opening. you can which shots this is used for as they are so subtely designated with 'shot missing' in the animation post below. still have to add the people and animate them...but its a step.

also still have to animate some nice heart monitor-ish stuff for those 2 blank screens.

now, i really really need to animate. a shit load. so look for that soon i hope.


buckets.

-shayne

“holy balls. i’m not doing that,” he thinks. “willikers.”

so the deal is, my hardrive decided on christmas eve to completely fry. yep. merry fucking christmas. goodnews is i had a backup of my thesis. bad news, it was a week old. so i lost a chunk of finals week work. so yeah, that was awesome. but onward and upward. or whatever.

this is the opening sequence at about 85-90 percent animation. im trying to get this together before moving on so i can start rendering (and soundtracking) this while working on other parts. so any feedback as to what works and doesnt in this part would be sweet.

i have since changed my story to be more realistic for my time frame. sadly, merlyn is no longer appearing. arthur will never actually meet mordred, but will still be the guy behind all those cool monitors which i have yet to build.

...yeah.

its gonna be a busy 2 months.

-shayne

"the scene is so beautiful. the landscape is literally peppered with painters working out masterpiece after masterpiece."

though unrelated to thesis, figured i would post this. cause i like the attention. my final project for lighting and rendering. pretty pleased. top one was all mental ray (and not the will frazier "im an ass hole and i love to press just one button and have my thesis look money because i don't know what i'm doing. also I like boys" easy render button. its under the mental ray tab, trust me. look around. you'll find it.) , bottom one was software (plus the obligatory occlusion pass. man, is occlusions sweet.)

so thats the end of the semester. so much work left to do by march, but not this week. this week is vacation. and is going to be completely maya free.

really.

no maya.

i swear.

later.

“follow them, harry,” says harry to himself. “follow them or die.”

so here is the magic from a program named after another wizardly harry.

so, yeah, totally not finished. i had to get it ready for my houdini final. the smoke, fire, and water are all out of houdini. for a first time user, i can live with it. in reality all 3 will be rerendered by the time the shot is "ready" in spring. Smoke could use more plumes/particles. water could use some smaller waves with less noise in the distance. fire could use not to look like ass. but whatever.

Also the foreground will be animated with some sweet breathing and coughing animation. woot.

all in all, i think fair progress.

especially since the shot will just get filtered like f*ck in some sort of "FLASHBACK!" way and will be on the screen for most likely half this time.

word.

one more project to go...

"this is between you, me, and the little patty mcgrossout, ok, hp?"

so, completely un-thesis related but still having a need to be shown and responded to, i had to design a personal business card and a label for a dvd reel. granted, could you not tell this from the picture below, i would have completely failed in these presented endeavors.

let me know what you think.

"sweet mustache! wilikers! harry watches kids breaking their nose cartilage on the window panes of broom stores. this is heaven."

well. here it is. my first test rendered scene. still a work in progress. looks a little washed out and just...not right yet. we'll see. but i mean, its something.

go america.