PUTTING PIGEONS ON STUFF! I've been wanting to do this for years.
They're obviously designed to be background assets, but they still hold up fairly close.
Should I ...
2020-11-20 23:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostFirst: an apology- I am SO behind on messages.
But yes! I'm still indulging in the decadence of updating old VFX shots, which I know I shouldn't do, release-schedule-wise, but it f...
A few tricks for cleaning up photoscans, and some rigging! I think a fun project could be compositing this guy into some live action footage, maybe?
Also, I'll be uploading the skater guy as...
I've been working on a bunch of stuff, but nothing that's lent itself perfectly to a tutorial, so I decided to go easy on myself and say it's okay if tutorials cover ground I've already covered bef...
2020-11-09 23:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The last few days have been pretty wild here in the US, so I kind of intentionally let myself check out...
2020-11-05 12:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWent on a hike along the Dosewallips river last week, and did some scans! They were going to be for a halloween video I ended up not doing (I thought it'd be fun to put on the rokoko suit and be li...
2020-11-03 04:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
H'okay! Here's a bunch of different piston rigging techniques! Dependency loops are one of the biggest issues when trying to set up a piston rig (you typically target each half to just point at the...
2020-11-02 09:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick upload of the merchants from that shot I was posting the other day (Download Below)
They're maybe a bit specific to be particularly useful, but I know I'll be raiding i...
Alright! I'm going to be getting a little granular with these videos for a bit, because hopefully there's a lot of info in there that's useful in contexts outside of creating CG robot arm (let me k...
2020-10-28 04:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Mostly I just made this video because I'm really jazzed about a new shot (just woke up and got to see it rendered!) and felt like talking about some stuff. Definitely things I could tweak, but I lo...
2020-10-24 22:51:19 +0000 UTC View PostRobot arm!! [download below] I learned so much doing this, both about rigging and anatomy. I loved the learning curve of getting started in rigging; it's really easy to get your feet wet, and just ...
2020-10-21 08:02:59 +0000 UTC View Post
MOOOORE neon, seriously Ian? YES! So I have a bazillion other things I should wrap up (robot arms and merchants and HyperBoles), but I wanted to see if this would work and it did,...
2020-10-21 02:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostHeeyyyy- want to know a secret technique to never finish a film? Take so long to finish it that eventually you begin looking at the first VFX shots you did a couple years before and start wanting t...
2020-10-16 09:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
After years of tweaking, I finally made a jellyfish I'm happy with!*
The above isn't really a full tutorial, because I haven't found a way to make them consistently good, but t...
2020-10-16 05:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a 7 minute video, but the basic node setup only takes a few seconds. Very simple, and a surprisingly effective way to add some cohesion/age to a scene! Personally I think it works best when yo...
2020-10-08 08:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This isn't a tutorial because I don't really have any idea what I'm doing, and yet, I'm documenting it anyways.
This is just something I've wanted to do for a few years. I feel a l...
Part 2 tomorrow! Or the day after!
So- as I mention in the video, I was going REALLY hard in the cg department for a bit there, and while I'm super amped to finish up the HyperBole sequence ...
I've been slow to make this video 1.) because I'm not a particularly great animator and 2.) because anything regarding animation is mostly just going to devolve into a bunch of graph editor tweakin...
2020-10-01 02:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
WHEW! This took significantly longer than I expected. Higher detail neon signs (64 total), eve...
2020-09-29 11:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostLove-Of-My-Life-Kaitlin and I went on a last-bit-of-summer trip around the Gifford Pinchot forest the past few days, and I snuck in a little Bower-Bird-esque proposal- she said yes! :D
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2020-09-24 10:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew!! Inadvertently signed myself up for way too many projects the past couple weeks, and while it's been fun, I'm really excited to get back to business as usual- but in the meantime, here's a vi...
2020-09-24 09:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This post is a continuation of this post here
SO! I did a presentation for Kitbash3d's "Game Day" f...
Been letting myself enjoy the last few weeks of summer (I feel like Winter's going to be a tough one), but I've still been working hard on the HyperBole scene!
Just finished the scene below...
H'OKAY SO yes, it's fairly easy to make a text outline glow and call it a day. But what if you want to make something that holds up to some sort of scrutiny?? I wanted to make a HyperBole neon sign...
2020-09-03 09:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I suppose this one's a little more oriented for beginners (since I'm fairly beginner in this area), and I figure anybody who knows constraints is probably already familiar with most all of this, bu...
2020-08-29 02:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Proooobably should have held off on this video, and I suspect it's of limited use to anyone with even the most basic rigging knowledge, BUT, I've been having so much friggin' fun with this...
2020-08-20 01:07:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick rundown of a bunch of the techniques I've been using lately for all these greebly (nonsense detail) bits! There's almost always a more efficient way to do what I'm doing at any given moment...
2020-08-19 10:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Halfway through August!! wooo! Finally getting a 95 degree day tomorrow, I'm ready for it.
It's wild to me that August is the cold month for you folks in the southern hemisphere. August=Heat ...
2020-08-15 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In my new quest to make the HyperBole become my most overly-inflated side project, I've decided I need ...
2020-08-15 00:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hyperbole isn't a good idea, but it's one I've wanted to do for a while, so I kind of want to put some effort into it?
That said, I'm in a tricky zone right now, where I'm desi...