Toaster Walk Cycle complete - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZ-hZoVg3g

Timothy the Toaster Twit - He Lives!!!

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As you can see in these latest pictures I have redesigned the arms of the toaster. Before they were directly attached to the body of the toaster but I had too many problems enveloping the character as I did not want the metal part of the toaster to move when the arms moved. So instead I decided to detach the arms and give him more toy like arms that move on a pivot.
Here is a link to a turnaround of my toaster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z267W58mW4
After the turnaround I decided to start animating the toaster - so I started with a walk cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XAFM-9kOtg

Amazing Remeberance Day Pictures

http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/11/they-that-are-left-2010.html

Toaster Renders

After two grueling weeks of rigging - I have finally finished my rig. I have now moved on to enveloping my toaster and as you can see here there are still a few problems with the envelope that I hope to sort out soon. Not only have I started enveloping - I have tried my hand at some shape animation for the mouth and have added smile, sad and closed mouth shapes. I had a lot of fun playing around with the shape manager within XSI and advise anyone to have a go =P.

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Once I have finished enveloping the Toaster I will then move on to primary animation movements to show the range of movements possible without breaking the rig.

Toster Advancements =D

Now that I've finished the toster concept i've moved on to the process of modelling Timothy the Toster Twit. Here you can see is a very simple low res version of my toster, I still have quite a few refinements to make on it but it's a step in the right direction.

 

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I don't like th mouth at the moment and don't think that it will deform in the right manner for the kind of facial animation I am hoping to achieve.

After that base of the modelling is complete I want to move it in to Mudbox to sculpt the arms to make them more realistic.

Timothy the Toster Twit

This is a university project I am doing at the moment in which we have to model a kitchen appliance with a twist. It has to be able to emote and interact with objects…

I decided to model a toster but I wanted to mix the non organic metallic look and feel of a toster with the complete opposite look of very human realistic looking arms.

I want to keep the design simple but enforce the fact that he is very stupid =P.

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Space House Project =D

So for my first project that I wanted to do over the summer was to continue on with the space theme that we were given as a project at uni. I made a house in under 2000 tris using blueprints that were given to me from my gamer friends. The house project was a lot of fun to do not only tested my ability to model under a set limit but also my texturing abilities. See image Below:

I decided that I did not want to just finish with this and that I wanted to make a whole scene from this one house. Firstly I set about modelling a white picket fence around the outside of the house and then the drive way and pathway to compliment it. This is a wire frame of the finished result:

 After this I wasen't sure what I wanted to do either I go down the route of making a whole idealic american street scene with trees and bushes to match the house but I thought this to be a bit too boring. So I decided to re-invent the space scene but this time without a space ship but rather a floating house. I started modeling the lump of earth that the house is connected to (almost like pandora-esk floating islands, except mine makes sence as it's in space =P).  Here is what it looks like so far:

I modeled the ground by simply painting weights onto a grid and connecting the weight map to a push deformer. I then went onto texturing the ground - I wanted it too look as if it had just been ripped from the surface of the earth with lushous grass still growing happily ontop.

 This is how far I have come. The most difficulty that I always have is how to make it look more realistic but it is a floating house in space so how realistic can I expect =P.

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