New Rig: Paladin

Here's some stills of a character I'm giving a rig to: the Paladin.
Modeled/unwrapped/textured by Maury Weiss (http://mindofmaury.blogspot.com/).

Nothing too fancy, except for the armor manipulators I'm spattering here and there; manips for the leg guards, shoulder plating, and cod piece. Also, since his breastplate is a single piece, that makes configuring the spine controls pretty easy.

And cape manips. Always the capenips. Cat nips. Spin Tack. Speed Track. That's enough gobbledy gook. Time to work.

In the home stretch

It's almost time to turn this beast in. My goal is to at least make it in the top 50, so here's hoping. Changed the camera angle, and finished the lip sync and finger passes, and now it's all just going over it and buffing out the scratches. I'll be glad when this contest gets over, since they can be royal time sinks, but boy are they fun.

11 Second Progress

Here's a new video with more progress on the 11 Second Club entry I'm working on. Added the 2nd character, smoothed out the majority of the animation, and have just started on the facial animation. Will also be starting the hands soon.

Let the Games Begin! ...a week ago

Man, it's been a while. The last week and a half was a tumultuous one, what with moving and everything. Finally getting out of downtown Seattle and settling in Suburbia. At least it feels like suburbia, and Google Maps informed me that we live in a gang-ridden neighborhood. Still, it's been a quiet settling in, and with internet finally installed there will be no need to run back and forth everywhere just to get my fix.
This month I'm keeping busy with an 11 Second Club contest entry. (http://www.11secondclub.com)
The source audio is from Downton Abbey, a show that tells the story of the Crawley family and its trials and tribulations leading up to the first World War (thank you IMDB). This first video is WIP status, but just you wait til next week. Til then, enjoy.
Critiques (what little there is to give at this stage) are appreciated.