Elephants don't like close ups...

Oh, shit, the elephant is charging the camera! This will make a hair-raising addition to my reel...




Here's the link to the video.

Henry's First Steps

Henry now has a walk cycle. Walk cycles are a pivotal thing to master. They are the basis of mastering any other motion a character will go through. This is the first time I've done a walk cycle with anything with more then 2 legs...4 legs are twice as hard as 2...



Here is the link to Henry's walk cycle.

Meet Henry: 13 feet of awesome.

Henry has been my project for the past few months. I started modeling him in August, and he's come a long ways from the scraggly verts and polygons he was shaped from.

It took me about 2 months to paint the skin. All of his skin texture is hand painted in ZBrush. I have him here with a normal map-I'm still working the kinks out of the displacement map. He is rigged, which was a process and a half, I'm surprised I still have hair I've been ripping it out so much over him. His ears are soft bodies, and has hair follicles controlling his tail and gut motion. You'll get to see those next when I finish animating some cycles!