The Second Self - Complete Animation

Animation: Maya 2008 Unlimited
Editing: Final Cut Pro
Music: Cinematic Orchestra - All Things (CO's music works well with any visual!)

Here it is pretty much done now. I would have liked it to be longer, but I couldn't think of anything else to do. I wanted to make the magic carpet roll but at the time, with the method I was using (controlling each vertex) it was taking much too long. Then after rendering I thought of an easier but still very time consuming way, and as I still have an essay to write, I'll leave that for now!
I tried to use the Neb II submarine too but it was acting up; when I moved it was being stretched about and not moving freely. So again with lack of time to make improvements I decided to leave it out.



Comments are welcome!


Watching: The Simpsons - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times

The Second Self - Part 1, 2 & 3

Animation: Maya 2008 Unlimited
Editing: Final Cut Pro
Music: A clip from something I wrote and recorded about 3 years ago, then re-wrote and re-recorded last year. It's called Minima.

I still have to make my person/avatar/alter-ego 3D thingy whatsit, but I'm pleased with the way it's heading so far I decided to upload and add music for the purpose of watching it progress...



Comments welcome!



Music: The Beatles - Blackbird

Alter-Ego/Avatar Design [2]

I came up with another idea for an avatar last night while thinking about photographs that I want to take soon. This led me to the graveyard on Mansfield Road and so my second alter-ego/avatar will be the Existentialist :D
Pictures coming soon...


Music: Genesis - Sledgehammer

The Future?

First I want to show my first attempt at animation in 3D Max it's my little aquatic friend called Squiddy, he's wearing a funky dunce hat...

I'm finding 3D Max an awkward piece of software to figure out at the moment, maybe because I don't have it on my computer to use in my own time and I have to find the time to go into Waverley and set everything up out of my own environment. But once I get my head round it, which I am determined to do the aim is to create my own avatar and have him doing something for about 3 minutes. Ideas for the avatar haven't sprung to mind yet. It's a very strange assignment for me. I have spent my life trying to find out who I am, now I have to create an alter ego and display it in a virtual world for everyone to see.

I really enjoyed my lecture on Tuesday with Deb, it was very interesting. The assignment given is to predict the future. Yep... but specifically the future use of Moveable Projected Displays using Projector Based Tracking
We also discussed the history of Multimedia, which should now be called Hypermedia, a name that for some reason i'm not too fond of. Maybe because hyper is a term used for the internet/website design and I have never got on with web design.
Its history looks something like this:
Image
Text
Photography
Telephone
Film
Sound
Computing
Multimedia
Hypertext
Hypermedia

We also looked at a new game called Crysis with some incredible graphics. Check out some of these videos...








I think my radio show is going well. It's a pity not many people are listening to it however i'm going to get the actual numbers tomorrow or Friday

I'm addicted to Twin Peaks at the moment. It's a fantastic TV Series by David Lynch; one of my favourite directors. The stories and music walk hand in hand with each other. If you haven't already you should watch this. It's got me drinking black coffee once a day, at least!


Watching: Twin Peaks - Episode 16

My Second Self/Alter Ego [1]

This is so funny!