Watch 'em stretch

Just finished the main rig for my little afro character. With this, I can manually adjust the squash and stretch on him without too much wackiness as a result. I used two bones, and a lot of dummy objects to make this. The top circle controls stretching from the top of course, likewise with the bottom, and the center controls the main body movement as well as having the center point for rotation. Give me few more days and I'll have the morphers up and running :).

*click* *click*...

Been working on this Desert Eagle model for a couple days now. Currently modeling it in separate parts so that I can animate it correctly. I still need to do a lot of minor tweaking, as well as adding in the safety switch, the clip release, and the sights.

Flame on!

Been craming tutorials ever since I got back from vacation. Recently bought a book on creating realistic particles without using any plug-ins call "Deconstructing the Elements with 3ds Max". Here's one that is particularly useful for a project I'm working on. The fire was made completely from particle source in 3ds Max.

All done with the modeling. I'm trying to work up the courage to try and texture this....wish me luck.

Up and away...

Here's the start of an f-15 fighter jet model that I've been working on. I didn't think it was fair to have a bunch of Polish students make one if I couldn't make one myself.

Did it blend?

Well, here it is...the final composition. Rendering out the different elements took a little longer than I expected, but it was worth it seeing as how I had to make the render quality look worse in order for it to match my video. All composting was done in After Effects. This is just the first part of the commercial and I plan to finish sometime. Right now though...I need sleep.

Will it blend?

So here I am early in the evening trying to figure out the difficult process of the camera matching utility in 3ds max when I suddenly discover that you can import a movie as the viewport background!!!! In my attempt to mix 3D and live action I've done some testing. Hopefully after some tweaking and enlightenment, this will work.

*UPDATE*

Well, after some thought and some work, I have come to the conclusion that I am horrible with lighting...but, I have managed to figure some other stuff out.