Lucas Ridley's Microblog

Modeling a Cow update (WIP)

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Working on another contest video, but not sure if I’ll have time to finish this one …

If you don’t hear from me in 6 months, I’ll be working on this. It’s just a render from working on the animatic.

Testing shaders today.

I got one tip about glasses from attending the talk BlueSky Studios presented on the lighting in Rio.

Their two main human characters both had glasses in the film and they composited several passes in post just for the glasses to get the right look.

They did this because the reflections of the glasses were blocking too much of the eye and making the eyes harder to read in the performances.

Uhhhhh … what have I gotten myself into …

Maya render vs. Nuke composite

Rendering out a very short lip-sync animation, will be online in a few days. It’s a sound bite from the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

Push animation assignment for class

Experimenting today to create a clay-like material shader to use in my final animation piece. Now my homework entails playing with playdough for research :)