RIGGING, video render & sound credit

the rigging of the character took me about two days, as always ruth was my guinea pig and i made allot of mistakes when rigging her, her hair for example made the animating and weighting allot more difficult than i first intended it to be, i ended up using a tutorial to help remind me how to rig and skin and just as a helper to the process, a process i am not well versed in at all and need allot of practise,

tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpU1yqsT8_A

easily one of the best most consice tutorials on 3ds max ive watched in a long time!

the feet on freddie were quite difficult as he is wearing flared boots, i tried to fix it as best ii could but time contraints have set in big time

the twisting of the bipeds bones was bizzare aswell, after i set the biped in place i skinned it and began by doing the animation on ruth, i soon realised i had to redo the process as the arms were twisted in such a way they wouldnt animate properly, next time i think i will model them hands facing down, its all learning curves and dips i guess!, i found aswell that there wasnt enough geometry to animate them as well as i wanted, i at this point am not willing to go back and mess with the models as it would reset the animation and envolopes and would mean a re unwrap (likely) with collapsed UV's and a new biped reskin and texture map tweaks, if i had the time i would but at the moment its a juggle between personal life and uni work.

this isnt the finished look! just a render to show my working!



ive never made a video without the use of camtastia before so that was a learn as i go along job! i used Adobe premier to complile the video and rendered out the turns and animations from 3ds max as avi's, which is something i never knew you could do!. after testing lighting on freddie for ruth i went with a simple 3 point lighting set up my lovely friend (who woks in camera production) told me about, she had no idea if max could do it she just told me thats how they do it in work, its nice to see some styles bening transferable!

now all thats left to do is burn he disk and print out the concept art book which will not contain all the artwork off the blog!

Music used int he video is not owned or made by be, the track is: "son of flyn - daft punk", and is from the tron legacy film soundtrack.