Animation and all its glory!

I am trying to make a horse drawn buggy for my short.  It does not look the exact way I want to. So here is what i want the wheels to look like.

Animation and all its glory!

This week we have started a long awaited project, at least in my opinion. A 3-d short. My short is called "The Little Paper Boy". So far I am very proud of my two characters but have had one heck of a time getting the joint tool to work. But thanks to the new post Ms. Licata has posted, that hopefully will not be an issue for me or anyone else in the future.  My city scape is nice is suppose. One classmate commented and said; "It looks really good. There is a word for it. I am not sure what the word is but .... it is a good word....but I just cannot think of one." I believe I will take that as a compliment. Take credit where credit is due. The worst experience had to be the joint tool and stressing over getting that to work.  Now that problem is fixed--for now.

Animation and all its glory!

Quizzes, quizzes quizzes! Oh my god they are forever haunting us. I do not think that the quizzes themselves but it is slightly intimidating when you have Ms. Licata's watchful eye over your shoulder literally.  I have gotten my ghost to the color and shape that I would like. Now it is getting the ghost to "float" from one side of the screen to the other in a manner that is not too fast but looks as if the ghost is trying to hide from view.  When she floats, she looks like a missile not a ghost.  I doomed myself by looking to my left to see Graham working on his project. Looking at how realistic it is, a thought struck me, "Why do I even try?" If I can not ever get my projects to look as realistic as Grahams'. It is his work and his technique that employers will be looking for.  But I digress. On a more happier note I tried to do the tutorial of the face, the easier one. I was able to complete that and add the irises, nose, eyebrows.  I am currently working on creating a hat for him interchangeably  while working on my logo.

Animation and all its glory!

\okay here is a video for modeling the mouth in Cheetah 3D.  The guys accent ticks me off and I will say that the narrator's voice for the tutorials on the actual Cheetah 3D program sounds a lot better. (Sorry Ann Marie, it might make you sleepy but I like it.) So anyway this may be a video worth checking out. Anyone else have any videos that may be helpful please let me know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_L68ft68kk&feature=relmfu