justin owens

Well I’ve been rather lax in making blog posts. I don’t feel that I’ve had any free time between school, homework and work and I typically feel like I need time to feel I can sit down to write.

So the triple-boot didn’t work out. I could get both MacOS and Ubuntu to cooperate, but Windows wouldn’t play with the others. I ended up going with a MacOS and WinXP dual boot, that way I get my productivity and gaming covered. Ubuntu was going to be an experiment in alternate, and interesting, operating systems. Well, another time.

School is going well, I feel like I’m learning lots. I spent six hours working on my 2d animation yesterday (we’re animating the flour sack character jumping off a crate). I’m keeping mine really simple so I don’t get distracted. I got about 80 frames drawn yesterday, I’m going to shoot it tomorrow night and see how it’s looking. There are some sections that really looked promising and others I’m not sure about.

Far Cry 2 comes out tomorrow, I pre-ordered it last week and I’m hoping Kimi can pick it up for me while I’m at school. Or I’ll just get it on Thursday. Now hopefully I’ll actually find some time where I can play it!

Not much else I feel like saying at the moment, just wanted to give my blog some love.

This was a two week project done for my animation class. I found the flour sack rig rather difficult to work with. It didn’t have as many controls as I’d have liked and some of the ones it did have deformed in unexpected ways.

This idea was to show an emotional change in the character. I’m fairly happy with how it turned out, but I definitely have more work to do on it. I’d like to work on the walk cycle, make it more of a slumped shuffle. After getting feedback I also see that I can work on his reaction (exaggerate it more) and add some more movement to his body during the clap.

 

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