Here It Is! Ladies & Gentlemen....Moe-Nuts!

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The Poster Premiere!

Ladies and gentleman, I apologize for the miss updates the past few weeks but I am proud tonight to present you the official poster to my Thesis!

Character Render Test Take0002

BEFORE

The textures here before were highly rushed and there were a many things that need to be fixed and also I didn't have a wall or lighting in the BG to begin with.

AFTER

Character Textures Fixed Up!
Forgive the bizarre redness, the original render doesn't have that
...can't seem to fix that in blogspot. No disrespect.

OFFICER JIM MORTON REPORTING FOR DUTY!

MoeNuts Previs0005

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Leisure City Blue

Putting in all the textures (In Progress)

Jim Morton Looks Better Than I Thought...in VRay!

MoeNuts Shot 0001 Scene 0004 Animation Test 0002

Run Morton Run...unless you can see where you are going

Apologies for the bad quality. If you want to see the better crisp playblast, 

CLICK BELOW*

https://vimeo.com/79902421

Hurry Up If You Want That Turkey!

It's been while since I updated this blog but to give you my progress results, here are the 3 best mouth blend shapes to explain my character's emotions.

AH!

COLORS!

Although I posted this up on my facebook (which I will not give you unless you know me first), I thought it would be cool to post this up as a sneak peek to what toon shader is going to look like.

Happy Halloween/Birthday...During UV Mapping

I just thought I give a quick post to just say today is my birthday and I'm spending the next few hours working on UVs on my environments. Fortunately enough, my UVs for my characters are finish and now it is time for me to keep going with this. In the meantime Happy Halloween and a Happy Birthday to me!! (No ego trip here)

The Joys of Rigging!!!.......UGH!

Right now at this moment, I am in the process of fixing up my characters rigs but in the meantime here is a demonstration of what you can do to your character with all the frustration and stress that can go throughout your day!

3 Character Finally Models Down!

Models Are Set & Rigging In Progress. *Model in Left, Credit goes to Kevin Once Again!

Rapid Rig Test...Just For Fun!

Isn't rigging fun??

Robber Glutton Working Progress

Robber Glutton is in great progress....that's all for today. Laters!

COURTESY OF KEVIN YUANZHI CHEN

Look at those pecks!

Wow...I'm updating like everyday...why didn't I do this a month ago?!

My main police officer took a lot longer than I anticipated to model out. Then again I think I've been trying too much to get him to be perfected as well as my environments. Here is Jim Morton's Model whom is about 94% done. It's the hair and UVs that are getting in the way. ENJOY!

94% done with model & UVs

Leisure City Police Badge

UtilityBelt Left

UtilityBelt Right

BONUS

Leisure City Beginnings

Female Finale [Plus Bonus]

Although we have decided the third character to be a female, it was best to just have her a female character than a female chef character. Vicky once again was nice enough to work on a few more fashion concepts for her final debut!

COURTESY OF VICKY TAN

First Set

Second Set

Third Set but I personally believe the last one in the right is the winner! It has that colorful 80's look. Sort of reminds me of a little Rudy

*BONUS*
Another cool guy I know at SVA, Kevin YuanZhi Chen is working on Robber Glutton's model at the moment.

COURTESY OF KEVIN YUANZHI CHEN

Apologies For The Late Post

Hi guys, sorry I haven't posted anything in the past few weeks. There had been some changes to the story which is why I finally am posting up my latest previs that I completed a few days ago as well as a couple of new changes to the concept art.

HERE IS THE PREVIS:
Previs 0003 Moe Nuts Or Go Nuts

As for the concept art, I was able to get additional help from a good friend of mine from the School of Visual Arts. Here are some of her best work

COURTESY OF VICKY TAN

Finalize Versions of Robber Glutton

Finalize concepts for the third character. Made the decision to go with the middle character. Even though she is a chef, I'm considering to change her to a female civilian

CONCEPT ART FOR THE BAKERY

This was the first design idea done by me

REST DONE BY... YOU GUESSED IT...VICKY TAN!

Design 0001

Design 0002

Interior Design

Design 0003

Design 0004

WORKING PROGRESS MODELS!

Working Progress in the Computer Lab yesterday

Scene 0001 Environment 75% done

Original Bakery (Changing Soon)

Famous "Run Around Scene" For Officer Morton. Final Model Before Using Bend Deformers.

After Bend Deformers (Front View)

Perspective View of the Run Around

Final Camera Shot Scene

First Previs Test!

Da_Nuts Previs 0001