http://ph2pc.animux.org by Yubiy Casanova Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:22:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When working up your models you are welcome to develop them how you please, but when it comes to delivering these models to other people, they need a few things cleaned up. And when it comes to rendering a piece of geometry in a Renderman renderer, there are some really ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/11/01/renderman-friendly-advise-from-campbell-mcgrouther/ Paula Decanini is one of the animators on the PH2PC project and she has written an article on her experience using Blender on a the preview project, a program she had never used or trained in her education as an animator. My Experience in a New World of Blender by Paula ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/10/31/my-experience-in-a-new-world-of-blender-by-paula-decanini/ Pavo is our handsome, arrogant and puts his foot in the mouth kind of a peacock.  Here is his final character design. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Final Character Design - Pavo"][/caption] Points to Ponder Bean shaped body (especially the chest) Wings need to arms to move around rather than sticking to the body like ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/10/25/final-character-design-pavo/ Luis Gadea did get Yubiy right this time. We now have a final draft of Yubiy Casanova. Yubiy is a wise, not so old, mentor who teaches Turk how to change himself at being better at getting noticed.  Luis got his face and body correct, but did not create the tail feathers as that of an ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/10/20/final-yubiy-character-design/ Bella needed to be beautiful, independent and smart peahen. She is gorgeous. Luis did an amazing job on her. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Final Draft Character Design - Bella"][/caption] Points to Ponder: Do we want her to see past the peacock's insecurity? If she can look past, the turkey's and looks are not important? What ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/10/15/final-character-design-bella/ Turk, our ugly, lovable, romantic hero is finally complete. Here is the final color concept of "Turk" our lovable that Luis Gadea put together for us based on our input. The colors are beautiful, the expression is exquiste and fits the character perfectly. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="325" caption="Final Draft & Color Concept ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/10/10/final-character-design-tur/ Emily & Emmett have started producing the storyboards based on the latest version of the script. [slidepress gallery='sb_sequence_01_take01'] Though the initial plan was to create the storyboards with David's GIMP brushes, we had gone on to create the storyboards with just drawing on paper. One of the main reasons for this ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/09/20/story-boarding-begins/ Robin Trombley is making the final changes to the script before pre-production starts in full speed.  We have decided to bring back Yubiy Casanova character back into the script.  We also plan to implement changes Bassam Kurdali suggested. Robin has reworked the script with some more change where the Casanova ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/09/13/final-script-changes-underway/ Just finished creating the character sheet for Yubiy....this sheet presents the  nine emotions, just like the other three character layouts.. These brushes will be available for download along with the entire set of character brushes for PH2PC used in creating the storyboards.....including various angles and close-ups of Turk, Pavo, Bella, and ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/09/09/introducing-yubiy/ Finally these brushes are out, for all to grab.... Now that you know how to use these brushes we are making the brushes available for the public to play with them.  The link to the brushes are at http://www.animux.org/downloads/brushes.zip The Brushes are mostly created in profile, or a side view, both ... http://ph2pc.animux.org/2009/08/31/open-to-public-use-character-brushes-are-out/