Plenty busy but finally getting around to modeling environments. Here's a new dino in a test forest. Click on image for larger version.

Brontosaurus walk test.

Stegosaurus walk test.

Dimetrodon walk test.

Test animation of rex taking a stroll.  View in hi or lo def.

More textured critters. Click on the pictures for larger images. 

A nice stretch of unemployment means time for Mudbox and texture testing. Click on the pictures for larger images. 

One more critter.  I have decided to forgo scientific accuracy in my cartoon time travel tale, and mix dinosaurs from different eras.  I am just nerd enough that it does bother me a little.

A couple more models built and rigged; two more dinosaurs and the time traveller.   Wotta lotta rigamarole it is trying to rig a face.  This character is far heavier than all the dinosaurs combined. 

Click to see an animation test with the time traveller and one of the dinos, aimed at shaking out the rig and testing cloth settings.

Looking forward to texturing these fellows.

A few months ago I started work on a new animated short.  Unlike my last one, I don't want this project to drag on for years...so to spare myself and my audience, this one will be short and sweet and full of vim.  I will post periodic progress updates to keep a fire lit underneath me.

The story concerns the ordeals of an obstinate time traveler.  So far, most  of the character models are built and rigged. 

Next up will be adding displacement maps as I try to learn Mudbox and Zbrush.