The Knight Spider (2/3)

 So..... turns out that you can't model your own props. (Great).

So, I got very worried that I'd need to go back to the drawing board with my project (and honestly I felt ready to jump ship to the 11 Second Club even though I'd be going through a lot of crunch time). Luckily they had stand-ns for my project that meant I could actually do the work I originally planned to.

All the Adobe Substance 3D Asset Library had that i could even think of using were a closed umbrella and a floor lamp (yep, not even a hat was available to me to use - at least not without paying money for something can easily model in 1-2 hours).

With that frustration out of the way, we'd been shown how to rig up props last week - which is good seeing as I need to do that for my entire scene. So, with a lamp and umbrella needing rigging (annoyingly enough), I decided to work on the blockout and get it to a decent point and then playblast it out.

Its not done yet (as of writing), but when it is I can share what I've got and also share the rigged up props.

Also! I have made my first entry into The Rookies so I'm actually in the competition. I'm not looking to win (because I won't, trust me) but I wanna actually have a fair shot at this thing considering this is the first competition I've ever done for animation - a lot of my competition experiences are music based (hence why I know I'm not gonna win).

Well, now I've got two "blogs" to update - this is going to be interesting...

Maybe I'll get to use these in something else...


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