In my previous blog post I mentioned entering the 5 second projects. They are a small competition run every couple of weeks over at greyscale gorilla’s site. He offers a time limit (5 Seconds), a theme and a deadline, and then allows you to be creative. The idea is to make something interesting for your showreel.
The other part about this contest is that it encourages you to experiment with something new, or something that you haven’t done for a while. My first entry was the first time that I have fired up Flash to do animation since I was at University. It was interesting to work with something that I haven’t for a while. The newest theme is “Milk and Cookies” with which I am thinking of testing realflow. Looks like this could get very interesting.
On a personal side note, I wish my brother a happy 21st birthday today.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Monday, December 07, 2009
Save every five seconds...
So, today I remembered the first rule of working in 3D on a computer. You have to save everything every 5 seconds or it will crash and lose everything. Today I was modelling a character called Miyo-chan, a flying blue cat, for a future Animus short. While modelling the arm, the program randomly closed and lost all the work.
I am also planning to use the character as the main character for my first entry in the 5 second projects contest, which is entitled “Home, Sweet Home”, which I will be uploading to my site as soon as it is done. If you are interested in making animations, it would be a good idea to check them out as they offer you a brief to work on and rules to contend with and in the end you have a little of interesting little clips that you can use to make an interesting and exciting showreel, which, if you keep entering, will always have something new to look at. The website that hands out the brief is over here: http://greyscalegorilla.com/
I am also planning to use the character as the main character for my first entry in the 5 second projects contest, which is entitled “Home, Sweet Home”, which I will be uploading to my site as soon as it is done. If you are interested in making animations, it would be a good idea to check them out as they offer you a brief to work on and rules to contend with and in the end you have a little of interesting little clips that you can use to make an interesting and exciting showreel, which, if you keep entering, will always have something new to look at. The website that hands out the brief is over here: http://greyscalegorilla.com/
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