End of the month

Body of a typical middle age bloke.

body has been mirrored, and the head started.

Face is coming togeather.

And finally the face, a fatal extrusion that ended up in a batman face .

Here is a model of my lovely dogcat design , it is shaped how i would like it. the paws have a feel of weight at the end, almsot like a tennis ball in the end of a sock, its kind of floppy but with weight.

Rigging the dogget!

Don't get a head of yourself!

So here is the head mesh! rendered and with a very basic toon shader placed over the top- yes the dog is ginger, i personally like that colour, deal with it.

Animatic

After viewing of my animatic i have realised a few problems the first thing that cropped up was a problem with introducing the characters correctly. At current they are placed as silhouettes in an open establishing shot, to correct this there have been suggestions as to adding a shot before the scenic landscape shot. these have been ; to add the original scene where the dog wakes the old man via farting and they come out side to get fresh air followed by the dog walk scene - the other was to have the man fixing the building and the dog brings him a lead and they go for a walk. I have chosen to go with the second option on this as at the end of the movie the gag is that the house (that is previously lopsided) is propped up and corrected by the boulder, the house repair gives the viewer a visual link to the end of the film and an opportunity to get to know the characters ( i.e. the man could be sat there with a cup of tea and a large bag of sugar or possibly lots of empty cups of tea in a tribute to the stereotype of the yorkshire builder).
The second major criticism with the animatic is the use of camera and a lack of vital shots to show the cycles to be used. this i plan to fix soon, i have a few in mind and am considering blocking them out on maya.

Block modeling

Needless to say, this is not by any means finished- unless you asked me for a turtles head.. i will mould this mess into something usable!