Finished version

As I said earlier here is the new draft of my main character:


I changed the head and the wings as you can see. It looks better like that. Don't you think ? (sorry for his hair cut again :))

The modelling is finished now, there is still a lot to do for the scene but it's gonna be easier than the modelling of the character. I've already finalised some parts of the scene but I had to work on something else as well so ... can't be everywhere!

I drew sketches for the angel textures, and then i redid it on Illustrator. As I said I worked on the clothe's design. After a few tries. I managed to obtain the result I wanted.

You will see it soon but first I'd like to explain a bit what a texture is. It's very simple (not to do but, to understand), you prepare your textures with a graphism software like Photoshop and then you put your form or polygons in the 3D software and you stick the texture on it. There are lots of settings but the principle is to take an image and stick it on your 3D form.

When i did my texture for the clothes the result wasn't supposed to be like that but but to be honest I prefer it now.

Here is the Angel with his textures. This is theoretically the finished version of him ... theoretically.

Animex Festival 2007

Animex festival arrived in Middlesbrough at the beginning of this week!


That means two things, first I have no courses this week (coool) but it also means that a lot of professionals in the animation industry are at the uni this week.

This International festival is about animation (2D or 3D) but also computer games so it gives us the opportunity to see some really nice short animation movies. As I applied a bit late for my ticket I couldn't get a full pass but It doesn't really matter. I'm not that intersted in computer games and the staff who check the pass are mostly friends from my courses :).

Anyway, I've been to the screenings, I watched almost all the pieces which were selected for the festival. I saw some really good works, as usual, SUPINFOCOM presents amazing animations (no, I'm not saying that coz i'm french) like "Moutons" but also "Sigg Jones" (http://www.supinfocom-arles.fr/galerie.php?annee=2006 for those who are intersting). However, you feel good when you see a bad one, and there were some ... (nope, I won't tell you any names :p)

Also last night, after the screening I went to the Animex Lounge. I've never been to this kind of meeting, there were students and professionals in a bar to meet each other. As, it is not very easy to speak with people like that, the guy who were running the meeting asked us to do some exercises like speaking with people we’d never met before and find something you have in common or something like that ... After he compared this lounge to the speed dating and it was kinda that for the rules I mean of course. Most of the professionals were from the animation industry but also games and illustrations. Some came from the US and others from Bristol or London. Everyone was waiting to speak with the professionals who are already almost drunk ... :) and fake giving a crap of what you're doing (not always it's true but often)
Anyway, I didn't bring my portfolio with me and I wasn't expecting anything. I went there mainly because I wanted to know how this kind of meeting works. However I spoke with a lot of new people from the same area of study as me and it was very interesting.

The awards were today or will be tomorow, I'll add who won prices.
I don't know yet but I won't be suprise if SUPINFOCOM wins an award as they usualy do.