Hi, just a quick post between many other things to show off a bit of 3D animation done recently to visualize a 10m tall sculpture proposed for a Park in Queenstown, Tasmania.
Proposed to commemorate a disaster which claimed 43 miners lives in 1912.
For the 3D enthusiasts out there, all work was done in Lightwave 11, it was my first test of using the new instancing feature in that software. Compositing and polish in After Effects.
Here’s a bit of TV Commercial animation I did for the launch of the University of Tasmania’s science events and info website: Ignite Your Imagination
Andrew from Atomic Blender supplied the storyboards, direction and 2D assets which I then modified and animated. Additional assets were built and animated in 3D. One of the nicest things was that I used multiple kinds of animation, and a whole bunch of software.
The sound effects were created by Nick Storr at Firefly Media.
The animation was then used again on the website via the talents of Matt Daniels who transformed it into a navigation element.
This project was the best kind, lots of fun and people paid me at the end!
Software used: Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, Lightwave 3D.
Since the description of everyone’s new favourite tyrannosaur Yutyrannus, there’s been an absolute glut of depictions by anyone who can hold a pencil in the paleo illustration community.
And why not? A 6 meter long tyrannosaur with fluffy feathers! It’s weird and cool and just ever so disturbing in equal measure, a bit like like Yo Gabba Gabba.
Not wanting to join in the frenzy I thought I’d take another tack and take a serious and in depth look at what this discovery means for anatomists, palaeontographical illustrators and nerds who like to draw dinosaurs..
This is truly a topical in joke for all those enjoying (if you can call grinding your teeth enjoying) the coverage of a radical ‘new’ hypothesis in Labratory News.
Kitteh takes the evolutionary arms race up a notch, with some unintentional help from the show’s Scientific Adviser!
Here’s the traditional animation of my work in progress of the recent Spinosaurus painting.
As usual you can see I went into this one half baked!
