Shaken Character Designs!

After completing work on Celestial, I decided that I wanted to work on my own short film. As I mentioned a long time ago, in the Character Animation program we had to pitch stories to the rest of the class. I had pitched a love story about a salt shaker and a pepper grinder, and while it wasn't chosen I still wanted to make it. Over the summer, I began to write a script for my short, called Shaken, and I also came up with character designs. After designing the characters, the next step was to make a model sheet and a maquette. I thought for now I could show you one of the characters, along with the completed maquette, and then in a future blogpost go into the maquette making process in detail.!

Without any further ado, allow me to introduce you to the main character of Shaken, Salt!

And here is the maquette I made a few months ago!

I can't wait to share more with you in the future!

Enjoy!

~Josh

Animating Myself - Part 1

So I've decided that as a summer project, I was going to attempt to model, texture, and rig an animated version of myself. For those of you who don't know me in real life, my drawing style is "Disney-esque" . When I first saw Disney's Tangled, I knew that if I were to apply my style to 3D, it would be similar to that (this being said, I still feel like I have a far way to go with my drawing style, but I'll save that for a future blog post). I thought it would be fun to have my very own Josh Rig, so that I could use it for my demo reel, and my own personal animation projects. The very first step, and the reason behind this blog post, was to make a Model Sheet of my cartoon self, so I could use it as reference for the modeling stage. For those of you who don't know what a Model Sheet it, its typically a front view and side view of a person, object, or creature that the modeler will use in order to create the 3D model. Now that you know what a Model Sheet is, here's mine!

Enjoy!

~Josh