I MADE IT! ..

..Thus this blog hasnt been updated in quite a while.

A mad week essentially happend in April this year when I was asked if I wouldnt mind doing a animation test for TT-Fusion.

It was a very mad hectic week, with little to no sleep while I battled to learn Maya enough to get what I needed done. 3 days after recieving the test I handed it back on a very late thursday night and waited eagerly. That friday morning I got a enthusiastic reply and that evening after 2 long train rides I was At the office for my interview. It was bloody brilliant.

I left the office with a really warm feeling haha, within the hour on the train I recieved an email offer, and that is where my life changed!

I MADE IT!

 

I started April 22nd and have never been so happy, man its just, bloody awesome! I wish to dear god i could show the stuff ive done but its good enough that people will see it ingame !!!

This past 5 months (bloody flown btw, still feels like 1st tbh) I’ve improved beyond belief in Maya and im now so comfortable, And being surrounded by awesome people who have a world of knowledge is such a neat thing!

The old cliche that 3 years at University holds nothing to your 1st coupe weeks on the job, is so bloody true!

Moom is packed!

About 3 days work on and off, learned absolutely loads in Maya, like save save save save+1 save+2 etc etc!

http://www.kflynn.co.uk/Progress/Moom_Gun_Run_67.mov

Moom is angry..

and he’s packin heat! (current wip, 3/4 of a day most of that spent learning how to model in Maya.)

Walkies with moom..

About a days work in Maya, its crazy complex for me but im getting there..

(Video to follow as soon as youtube get there act together, always doing maintanence.) ;(

On another note the 11second club vote is on, theres a crazy amount of brilliant takes on the clip which I had great difficulty with

May as-well go with Maya..

(see what I did there? ) Yes its true XSI its still brilliant, but the best tools are no good if theres nothing to go with them, the sheer lack of rigs has finally driven me over to Maya. Such a lucky move to be honest. My friend didnt convince me enough about Maya’s strengths, I believe him now haha. (few hours work from never using Maya..)

Softimage XSI!

After a long hard decision I’ve decided Max is just too much of a hindarence for me to learn animation the pace I want too. So alas its been a good few months and yeah im comfy now in max, I just hate all the hoop jumpin you have to do.

Problems in Max,..

Currently ive got my rig walking upto a box at an angle and i want him to push this box along slightly and then for it finally to give and flip on its edge, which isnt straight on to him. The picture best explains it as im having hella problems setting up the link relationship properly between the boxs pivot and this extra pivot. Currently pivot 1 can work fine but soon as i rotate pivot 2 the box goes skewif in a really wierd way. Im going to go about it a different way but Id definately like to know how to get by this in future.

New rig..

Brilliant Brad Noble rig for 3D Max. Beats the shit out of the vanilla biped!

Today I really do, start my reel ;)

Life sucks, then it throws you a lowball right for the knackers. After months of sorting bills/life etc out I’ve had enough. Stood on my own two feet quite well but just didnt have time to aim for my career, so now im at my parents trying to make it, and I really will be making it, nothing drives a person more than failure, or the thought of it.

So after months of twiddling thumbs, I got back into animation, It was hard, I kept putting it off thinking it was a goner, but here’s step Uno bloody One, the ball, a’bouncing.

Yes it isnt pretty, yes it isnt disney esque, and yes its green, can only get better.

On another note ive come to the realization, i dont exactly need a webhost no more, currently im with 1&1 who are cleary definately not with me, more my wallet. But with my super dooper phone, flickr, youtube, and webblog, who really needs to pay these assholes?

My 1st door..

An early experiment on how well I could learn UV mapping, Rigging and exporting to source from Max. Went quite well except for not being able to figure out Valves new texture wrapper. Clicky for animation. (And yes it all works in game!)