http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com Just another AnimationBlogspot.com weblog Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:54:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gave an interview for David Hooies wonderful podcast Hoo on Who. I have never given an interview before and I don't think I did a very good job. In a way I was totally unprepared for it. He expected me to remember links for my own website :P Got me thinking ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2009/02/22/hoo-on-who/ rigged up a new member of the pirate crew this week. It is a homage to Robbie the robot from Forbidden Planet Robot pirate model from Dave Animator on Vimeo. http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2009/02/20/new-robot/ Just a little update with stuff I been working on: Been doing pirate related stuff at work, namely a chest. It was cool to to something really squashy and stretchy On a Pirate-related-theme. the robot pirates in Dressing up are coming along nicely. Been making a bunch of miscellaneous characters who job ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2009/01/20/yo-ho-ho/ Happy New year everyone. Well I Have only been back at work a few days and already its been an exciting few days. I have been working on a 3d Model parrot. Someone else designed it and I am rigging and animating it, WOOT!!! Will post some footage of the rig when ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2009/01/07/happy-new-year/ Ok,over the last 24 hours there have been 65 comments about the first post on this blog. All of them SPAM ok, now strap yourselves in.I am about to soapbox a little here and there is a chance I might get a little sweary too Congrats Spam merchants,thanks to your automated ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/12/19/spamalot/ Went to see A and the Wildhearts Last night. Last time I saw A was 5 years ago and I was jumping up and down like a lunatic. Last night I was so lethargic it was not even funny. Its kind of sobering to realise you are one of the 'stand ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/12/09/getting-old/ managed to fix the robot rig, am about halfway rigging the second robot pirate, just got to sort the facial controls out and it should be good to go. the third pirate will be complicated. I plan to use a particle system to define states and blend between rigs based upon ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/28/minor-update/ Well I have been assured that 4mations has not been canned and it seems to be undergoing a load of maintenance. which is kind of reassuring:) managed to fix a bunch of issues on the rig, it was probably a good thing the rig broke because rebuilding it again I was ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/27/4mations-is-ok/ so I loaded up yesterdays rig and...nothing :( all the custom attributes I made had disappeared started again with a blank set of CAs and added them one at a time re saving the file each time. got everything looking ok, restarted max to see if all the new CA held together now the ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/26/rig-not-working-now/ I have finally moved into my house, a mere 4 months after buying it!! The first thing i did was to set up the home studio to do work in. have spent a bunch of time rigging some for the pirate robots up the production. Got to re rig another robot ... http://davesplace.animationblogspot.com/2008/11/25/first-test-footage/