Update on the project

spent a lot of time texturing my robotic hand and its looking real nice. some choice shaders and reflections and the muscles are on the hand to subtly deform. filmed the background footage and will be looking into tracking the video ready for the final composite

Bradford Wrestling Alliance Motion Capture

Motion Capture Wrestling Project:

 using the professional BWA wresslers Gareth Angel and Mark Star. they donned there bobble suits and did what they do best in front of the motion capture cameras. the camera tracks the reflective balls and as as they move the computer can determine its location in 3d space.

using a flash on the camera brings out there reflective balls (they did have a crash mat for the painful looking moves)

we cleaned up the data by doing a human dot to dot which drives a skeleton. this then in turn drives a 3d model. after tweaking the model will mimic the wrestler's Awesome moves

this video shows the process 

Final Result! what we ended up with!

Dr Oh No is back!

been working away at my degree stuff and came up with this little short. 

Train

hear is something i made at uni looks good with lighting and textures

driver with a bit more

My dredd Driver has a bit more about him and i like it!

Dread has a driver

Modelled a character to drive the dread knight. took ages to decide how to do the chest so it looked ok. imported a sculpted head form mud box and twiddled with shoulders 

i had to move the legs and arms around for the guy to fit in the right place

New Modelling Skills

This is week 3 of being back To University of Bradford Doing an Ma in Computer Animation Visual Effects!

i been applying what i have learned in the way of modelling  this colossal beast the Dread knight of the Grey knight army of War hammer 40k. 

next to learn about texturing then this beast can have colour and stuff 

first finish of the modelling few bits left to do and it needs a pilot of course 

cant wait for the animation stage!!