robo mesh…mess… and some rigging
concept mesh (mess?!) I was working on while learning modo. very messy topology :) maybe I’ll redo the whole thing some day…
did some rigging in maya, hopefully there will be some previz-shots soon.
Oliver Zangenberg
cg and stuff
rivets in zbrush
even spaced, even sized and in a straight line. Very quick and easy. Looks ok so far:
vfx reel 2011 online
yay, got my reel done and uploaded!
see it on vimeo:
simple ‘tumbling box’ hack
this expression allows you to have a box tip over its corners and tumble, without the need to animate a pivot, or add a complicated rig. Of course, this method is not accurate, the box will always slide. But it is great hack if you need this get done fast, especially in previz!
The expression looks at the objects’ boundingbox and if one of its corners gets above or below 0.
If it does, it will force the z value of the bounding box to stay at 0.
nodeGetBoundingBox uses an object in the scene as its coordinate system. That way you can adjust your ‘ground’ to any worldspace position and any orientation.
simple rig
expression used
reseting python indentation levels
watchout…python beginner crossing :)
Python looks at how much whitespace each line of code has on its left side. But I didn’t know that it likes spaces more than tabs. In Maya I would get this error from time to time:
‘unindent does not match any outer indentation level’:
But my code looked ok. Solution was to ‘reset’ all the indentations, because some consisted of spaces, others of tabs. A great way to do that is using Notepad++. It has two functions, one to convert existing TABs to SPACEs and one that translates TABs into SPACEs while you type…great tool :)
convert TABs to SPACEs in Notepad++
tell Notepad++ to replace TABs with SPACEs while you input text
VFX Oscar for Hugo
this took me a while to realize… Hugo won the Academy Award for best Visual Effects!
I worked on Hugo at Pixomondo LA until November 2011. Pixomondo was the main VFX house with a huge talented crew working on ~800 shots.
Congratulations to Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning!
hello hello…
yay! Finally installed wordpress….and now I need to fill this empty space… for now you’ll have to live with my imdb profile :)
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