Finally a frame

After more than a month without any posts, now I'm ready to post new material. Actually there's some illustrations and sketches I really want to post. Let's see when. Anyway, this is the latest test render I did for the main scene of the short. Can you guys let me know what do you think?

KIND OF TEASER IMAGE

Now that the animation part had finally started, I got excited about trying to test the characters in a lot of different poses. One of them I really liked the angle, I rendered it and, with the render, I tried some textures and color balance, looking for the final look for the short. I came up with this image. So, I couldn't help myself and do something else with it, like this "teaser postcard" kind of image, I hope you guys like it because I'm heading this way :-)

some drawings

I know that the updates about my short should come first.
Anyway, I did some drawings and paintings this quarter (hey, I've been far away from any canvas for more than a decade!) so, it was about time to move my a%^ and get back to the drawing board (or canvas, if you will...). So, I took a crap picture of these two drawings but I will take good pictures of the paintings in a few days. The first drawing was done with brush and ink, these "bad guys" are some of my best friends in town, getting ready to watcfh some Wrestling. The other one, a traditional self-portrait study in pencils, have a cameo of my felow friend that will be by my side at least another half an year.

...and also the second cockroach

I've started the blend shapes of the second cockroach as well.
This is the start point for the facial expressions I will built for him.

Back to blogging

after a long break of updates, let's get this rolling again. Now that most of the models are ready for unwrapping and texturing, I've started to rig the main characters. The main cockroach is almost done, of course, still some bugs with the rig to fix and a lot of facial expressions to be built...

A book for the break

Hey, now that I will have a week break.
It's time for books ;-)

Oh yeah, a render to make my day

Today was really full of tests and renders. Andrew Klein's class today was good enough to lead the shading network of my main character'face and eyes to the point I'm happy with. Some minor adjustments will be made in the future. But now I'm moving to the rest of his body, let's see what lies ahead on that!