Rhia Crouch's Blog

Green Blue Testing out the X-Ray effect for the interface. I feel that I've got the glow just right but can't pick between the green or blue. Any feed back is welcomed.

I chose to use a blimm for the texture so that it gives a nice shine. Any feedback is welcome.

With basic door model

Blend Shape Animation from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . To get round opening the doors for my checkpoints I have tried out using blend shapes. I will go back and make sure that the doors don't stick out of the checkpoint sides once I am happy with it.

I've had to colour this one in a little so that I could work out some of the different parts when they over lap one another.

Not 100% happy with this model as I feel that it still looks a bit blocky. I'm also unsure if I should rig it because of the way it moves.

Can't dicide which disintegrator design to use. This only appears for a few second in the animation so isn't as heavily designed as the other parts that will appear. Any feed back is welcomed.

Don't know if I will keep the text on the bin the same, change it to a different font or place it on the bin texture. Any feed back is welcomed.

Trying my best at making the model match up with the orthographs. I had a feeling that the orthographs didn't match up and it's now that it is starting to make the modeling a bit harder to do. This may lead to the checkpoint, most notably the top part, not being the same as in the pictures.

I know that there are some mistakes with the legs but the bottom of those won't show up in the animation.

Lip Sync Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Animating Using MEL from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Added the top view.

Tryed to model the cell with the orthograph but it seems that I was right about the small balls not being in line with eachother.

For some of the test textures that I have done for the checkpoints I tryed out two different styles to see which one would work best, this mostly involved making the checkered pattern less visible in one of them.  Any feedback is welcomed. Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern Soild Checkered Pattern Less Visible Checkered Pattern

Eye Movement Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Animating Using Motion Paths from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Animating With A Rig from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Bouncing Ball With Travel And Rotation from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

This is the start of my checkpoint orthographs. I am having alittle trouble with the side view and want to try and get it right before moving on to the top view.

I'm not too happy with this orthograph as I feel that there are some mistakes that I'm not seeing.

The smaller balls in the cell might be a bit wrong as I was finding it hard to work out where they needed to go as they are not it a strate line.

3D Lip Sync Test 2 from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Robot Voice Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo . This is the robot voice that was used in my animatic, I would have tryed out some others but I was only able to find one voice when looking though Audition.

Fantastic Voyage - Animatic 2 from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Mechanical Walk Cycle Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Anticipation and Followthrough Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

Squash and Stretch Test from Rhia Crouch on Vimeo .

All 4 checkpoint eyes together each with their own colour.

Modeling and rigging the checkpoint eye. (With a little help from Simon.)