Second day progress on 11 second club March

Second day progress on the March 11 second club submission (Critiques MORE than welcome!)

also quick side note: for a better quality one (blogger sucks for video) go to my tumblr page: teganlaing.tumblr.com

11 Second club animation

Alrighty, so I'm doing the 11 second club contest for March! I've set up and blocked out my project so far, here it is! (REALLY rough blocking only right now....but you get the idea)

and this is a test render of the scene so far, this look may change tho:

HUGE update

alright, its been pretty much forever since I touched this blog which is sad.  And honestly the only reason I'm updating it now is because its 6:11 am and I can't sleep and I'm meeting a friend in like an hour and a half for breakfast so there's no point in sleeping.

anyways, life has been pretty hectic....I'm now in 4th term at VFS and trying to juggle school and a social life (which I think I'm managing pretty well for the most part).  We have presentations on friday to show off out demo reel progress....which I think I'm kinda behind in...but its ok I'll be fine don't panic.  Here's a couple images from the stuff I've been doing with the demo:

This is Tubby, the main character.

And this is a render test from my 3D animatic 

Aside from that...here's some random other work I've been doing since my last blog post:

This is an assignment for lighting class....all I did was the lighting

 This was the first character model and texture we did in term 2, beatrice...we all really hate her

 A bunch of props for the Beatrice scene I modeled and textured...this one's a gravestone

 ....horse stuffed toy

...stuffed rabbit

 ...curtains, pillows and wooden floor

....stuffed teddy bear

 This is a model of Cheetarah that I did for term 3 modeling class

 This is an animation done for term 2 

aaaand there's a bunch more but nothing I really feel the need to show right now...if I find something else worthy of the blog I will upload it laterz.  Right now I'm pretty much focusing on my demo reel, I finished modeling the character obviously, also finished the rigging (rigged and re-rigged like 97 times) and I'm just finishing up the weighting. Already shot some reference footage for most of the animation so I'll be starting to animate either today or tomorrow and will hopefully have some stuff blocked out for the presentation on friday :)

Aside from school....I've been looking into getting a job...probably not the best of plans but hey, there comes a time when its either get a job or live in a cardboard box, and I have to think of what is best for waffles, who has become a cuddling beast. anywho, I'm applying to a few restaurants and bars out here since I figure its the best way to make a good amount of money without having to work insanely. There's one bar I'm hoping to get in at thats opening in January, called ExpBar...basically its a gaming bar...you go and drink and play xbox, pretty much the story of my life so it would kinda be perfect.

Speaking of gaming, for all those interested, I have recently played and would recommend Deus Ex: Human revolution, Gear of war 3, Space Marine (the greatest part of this game is the random "Spaayyyce Mareeeeeens!" that you hear about every 5 minutes...always makes me laugh) Batman Arkham City, Dead Island, Battlefield 3, Uncharted 3 (if you have a playstation obviously) and of course....Skyrim!!! Which is too awesome for words.  Anyone wanting any info or review on any of those hit me up :)

Alright its now 7....I feel like i could probably go shower and get ready for a full day of work now.  Been pretty awesome updating this! I will definitely try to do it more often in the future (I know I've said that before)

also side note: I really miss everyone back home! <3

some more shit we do

so school is getting a little crazier....but I'm managing to stay on top of it all! :)  the guys are struggling more but thats cuz they're inferior.  muaahaha. 

Anyways, here's some more stuff we've been doing....its kind of a variety so you'll get a bit of a better picture of the range of things we're doing :)

Zbrush:

 Photoshop Painting:

3D Lighting:

Design Class (Above)

Classical Animation:

3D Animation:

There's more but I've gotta run to lunch now! I'll keep you posted on the rest!

Final Bike Model

after a LOOOOONG few days of non-stop modelling on several different models, one being the bike....but at the same time I'm also modelling Toad (mario's toad), an xbox controller, a walkman, a lamp, and a high heel shoe.  And that's just one class.  We've also got a lighting assignment, shading assignment, characters to create, and just finished an essay yesterday and a 2D animation yesterday.  ITS MADNESS!!! haha but I love it. anyways, here's the final bike model! I just threw a quick shader onto it, so don't look at the texturing lol

 sooooo sleeeeepy

I'll post the rest of the models as they get better

classes, life and the such

I know its been a while, I'm gonna try to do these more regularly I promise! School has been keeping us pretty busy though...class times tend to start at 9 and end anywhere from 4-10 so its a lot of time spent at school every week :S  

That being said, I'm learning an INSANE amount...there are some things that we were taught in the first week that would have saved days of tedious work in BIT had we known them haha but oh well, there's a lot of assignments but I'm finding that I still have a good amount of downtime compared to IMD, although I expect that will change, we'll see though i guess! In case anyone wants to see a couple of our assignments, here's some screenshots from 2 of them.  

This is an assignment from 3D modelling....its a bike:

And these are character designs:

definitely let me know what you think! keep in mind I'm not the best artist haha but we had to do it.

In other news, I finally caught up on smallville, so sad that its over! I think they did a good job on the finale tho....now I'm trying to catch up on the 8 million other shows I'm behind in....slowly but surly. ummmm I gave waffles a bath the other day....that was interesting. turns out she doesn't like water! weird huh? haha seriously tho she looked like a drowned rat, there's a picture but Hesham has it on his phone not on mine :(

speaking of phones! rogers screwed me. I'm still getting the Play rest assured, it just wont be until June 17th. some sort of extension of the upgrade eligibility screw up or something, but on Friday June 17th I will be marching into the rogers office down the street and demanding my Xperia Play!

I miss everyone back home a lot! But its been nice reconnecting with a bunch of people out here, anyways, we've got a 3 day weekend coming up obviously, so we're thinking of hitting up Stanley Park and the Giant aquarium that is home to a BELUGA WHALE! yes thats right. a beluga whale. I'll take pictures (if I'm allowed?....naw I'll take pictures either way)

ok hope everyone back home is doing great! love you and miss you all!!!!!

I'll keep you posted on the rest!

Welcome to Vancouver

HESHAM IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! haha kidding, so far so good on that front :)

so this is long overdue! its been craaazy busy here....the drive across Canada was amaaazing, minus Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which were pretty awesome for about the first 2 minutes and then nothing changed AT ALL for the next day and a half.  Seriously flat as a table. and just kept going and going and going....and going, like the energizer bunny.  The best part of the drive tho definitely was the rockies from calgary to vancouver. Absolutely stunning! <3

Once we reached Vancouver we had to stay one night in a motel since we got there too late to pick up the keys, but we woke up bright and early the next morning to go get them.  Not gonna lie, my first impression of our place was not good! it seemed a lot smaller than i had thought and the bedrooms are REALLY tiny.  It also didn't really seem like the super had put much effort into cleaning the place after the last renters (who were evicted for not paying their rent....and trust me not the cleanest of residents).  But we got the super up and I pointed out how it wasn't clean, and a few things that weren't working properly and she got the cleaning guy in there and cleaned it right proper  :)  It took a while to get the place furnished, but i made good use of craigslist and we got a lot of stuff pretty cheap.  also made several trips to ikea, wallmart and the brick.  Of course the tv i brought with me was "too small" so we craigslisted a new one....300 bucks for a 52" flat screen LCD! <3  so now our living room is pretty ballin haha

so I think i've gained 80 pounds since we got here, yes i am now super fat. the reason for this is our fridge. stupid thing.  It wasn't working for the first week, so we had to eat fast food pretty much every meal (cheapest) and now I roll everywhere :( Fridge is fixed now tho, although i should mention it smelled like a mixture of chinese food and garbage (arm and hammer took care of that)

We had our orientation on tuesday! met all the guys in our class.....and yes, pretty much all guys, there's like four other girls.  I'm so outnumbered.  I volunteered to organize everyones emails and start a facebook group, so now I know a lot of names! we start class at ten on monday so I'll let you know how that goes later!

also met a girl in the acting program and we went out last night to one of the clubs here....WAY better than ottawa, seriously.  They had a live band that puts ottawa to shame.  soooo good! met a bunch of new friends there too....everyone is really awesome!

Waffles seems to be adjusting great! she acts like she owns the place.  although Ahmad has forbidden her to go in his room, she quite often sits outside his room and waits till he's not paying attention, and then sneaks in while he's not watching.  but when/if he does see her....she freezes and then runs out of the room.   sneaky little ninja cat.

I have already found a great poutine place, dutch place, liquor store, tanning salon, hair salon, CIBC, grocery store, gym (for hesham, not me obviously), potential church, gelato place, and 24 hour mcd's....all within a 5 minute walk! And the shopping here is AMAZING, every store you could ever want including a gucci and burberry store are like a ten minute walk away! I know some ppl back home that would LOVE the shopping here!

The weather has been kinda rainy, but we've had a few really beautiful days too so I cant complain! I probably will eventually tho haha

I miss everyone sooooo much! i wish you would have all moved out here with me! <3 I'll try keep these blog posts a little more regular now that we're all settled down.  also I'll be posting pics of our place (which i actually really like now) on facebook pretty soon!

Miss you all a lot! <3

I'll keep you posted on the rest!