Pencil test of opening shot for the ‘Give your child half a chance’ short. 320×240 15FPS silent, 225K Requires Quicktime 7 codec.
Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category
Changes at Half Circle
December 23, 2005Finished a major website redesign. A ‘games’ section will be added soon to cover some of the Flash and Java games I’ve put together. There should also be new animation up soon. I took some time off posting ‘finished’ works to study motion. Lots of fflour sacks and stick figures. Stuff I’m enjoying and happy with but it’s not worth posting. I’ve also been busy in the still-arts. These get posted under the art section but generally don’t feel significant enough to update the main page.
Finally, I should announce The 1.3 version of my BVH exporter is now available at this link. This version fixes a couple of calculation problems for a small set of values and adds an option to change the rotate order of the joints for the root joint and child joints.
Along with the BVH exporter, you can click here to download a fully rigged model which is compatible with Second Life, an interactive social environment available for free on Mac and PC, where you can model, animate, and interact with other people in real time.
That’s all for now. New animations, art, and games coming soon!
Free BVH importer and exporter for Maya 5
April 21, 2005BVH or Biovision Hierarchy is one of the standards for motion capture. It’s a straight-forward text-based file format which defines a system of bones. Curiously, while this format is available for many 3D packages, it wasn’t included in Maya. I needed it for a project so I searched the web and found an importer and a spec, and proceeded to spend the next few weeks learning smart-sounding words like Euler Angles, Matrix Rotations, and Quaternions. Now it’s complete! An improved and debugged BVH importer and a glossy BVH exporter Both are written in MEL and have been tested with Maya 5.0.1 on the Macintosh. Any questions, comments, complaints, feature requests, bug observations, etc should be directed to e-mail.
FCTV 2005 Commercials are Up!
February 14, 2005 Faux News |
 Dancing Hieroglyphs |
 Decisions Decisions |
For 2005, I decided it was time to make FCTV commercials that weren’t all tags for FCTV, and were, instead, wear little vinettes of their own. The dancing hieroglyphs, however, is in keeping with the year’s theme of Further Confusion and is a list of the major people working on the channel. I think I gave myself the shortest of all the entries because that wall scene was a royal pain. 🙂 Anyhow, it was great year with lots of good people! |
The November 10-Second Club
November 29, 2004| This month’s 10-second club seemed like a bit of a challenge, a very rapidfire dense monologue by Jim Carey excerpted from Liar Liar So I gave it a try. |
Free as a Bird complete!November 2, 2004
Recent Events at Half CircleOctober 6, 2004Just because the news hasn’t been updated doesn’t mean there’s been no animation.  Recently completed, a 20-second title for a youth program for the West Bloomfield Township Public Library of Michigan Also, completed, Coming up for October, Free as a Bird should finish post production and finally be complete. Art Exchange AnimationJuly 25, 2004
June 10-Second ClubJuly 1, 2004
Production Proofs Online!May 2, 2004Model sheets, pencil tests, and other goodies from the new Persimmon animation are now available online!Click here for a peek! More shots will be coming off the drawing board ASAP!
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Obscure Star Studio 