I’m kind of embarrassed that it’s taken a stern deadline but… it’s happening. What? Well here is a sketch from 1999.
And here is a modelling test from 2012.
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This guy is a Big Mouth Singer, and one of the musical instruments that feature in an installation code named Firelight. If you have suffered my company for very long you might think … it that the same project as he’s been wanking on about since 1999? And you would earn a gold star on the forehead!
The difference was in 1999 I simply could not achieve the results I wanted. VRML didn’t cut it and neither did MPEG-4 once that came and went.In 2003 you might remember these guys:
…that ran in AXEL (sorry I don’t have the work anymore). And then there was Anark and then I had to give up for a while.
In 2012 there are the tools, there is a budget and there is a deadline. Because of this it must be finished and because of this many ideas will have to be cut and the whole thing scaled back to a feasible size. But there’s 13 years of sketches and plot lines and discussions and many guest appearances of the things I’ve tried out (yes, including some airplanes). Mostly there will be many instruments for you to play, rooms full of them.
This guy:
also appeared in a 1999 sketch book and as a simple VRML toy that same year. He’s shaping up to be something a bit more exotic this year
I was once a cube!
He plays the drums. Loud.
Firelight will get updates throughout the year, so stay tuned for the real name and venue a.s.a.p!
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there’s something sinister about that rabbit that haunts me.
I think I have chanced upon the secret means by which to create Wallace and Gromit.
1999 to 2012, now those are timescales I can get behind (and in fact use myself). Hope the 3d will be as unnerving as the sketches..
Having the worst time possible with facial animation. Seriously, it’s still 1999 when you have to go through three packages just to get the same number of vertexes to arrive in the targets.
FBX my arse.
Just noticed the rabbit at the bottom has a split tongue.
Thinking about a rabbit with a snakes insides.
What is wrong with you Ellard?
Also, the twirly bits by his ears. They look like the skyfish or rods that jackasses with digital camera’s can’t figure out are a digital artifact. Is this rabbit unaware of this as well?
The 1999 rabbit is a bad sort but has mellowed considerably over the years. When you have children I guess it reduces your internal number of snakes. He just plays the drums now, no major snake agenda.
I am THOROUGHLY STOKED at this exact moment after about 3 days of fucking around I have just managed to get a working facial animation going in Unity3D. Stupidly complex process but I’ve got the new big mouth singer head pulling faces. WE ARE ROLLING.
You are like an owl that kills the rabbit to release the evil that lives inside.
Although they do not know it until they have done died – You are a blessing to all rabbits with snake souls.
Which might be all rabbits…I mean really why are they the food staple of so many creatures if they are not truly evil?
But seriously, if you are ROLLING – I think everyone is pretty amped to see wha happen..
Oh yeah, I like the pointy ears better than the rounded off ones. Have they become rounded with the years? Is that a Stevie Winwood song? Has anyone murdered him yet?
Rabbit is in progress, pointed ears are in a queue. Actually there will be many different variations of rabbit, just getting the hang of sculpting this way.