Awesome progress

I'm so excited to share some new development on the Best If Used By project. Garrett has really pushed forward, in his spare time, and given me a great great Rig called John Jacob. He's currently at a tweaking stage, but he's already amazing control wise. He stretches, moves relatively fluidly for not being completely and properly skinned yet. He's quite the character and made me think of some great ways to advertise this short.

There will be little 10 second shots of John Jacob doing what John Jacob does: menial, lazy stuff that will be a great way to introduce the character without giving any full plot ideas away.

I'm so excited to get working on this at a more full force. Thing is, I love in NYC. I need to work some more, keep myself sustained, do some more freelance, and keep funds feeding me and paying bills... All in the name of great animation :D

Get excited guys. This is finally going places.

The early process of "Best If Used By"

So here is the early process of "Best if Used By", a short written and directed by me and done with some very talented people, Ryan Pate, Morgan Griffiths, Dayv Frost, and newly on board, Tyler Garrison. We are currently at the modeling, rigging, and texturing stages. I'm excited to see the texture and style work that Tyler can bring our project and really make it pop into something unique.




Early on, I could see how the sketches of mine were not matching the given modeling by Ryan. This is mainly due to the creative process and seeing what we can do with our collective ideas. I drew up a few changes.



Though a good and interesting caveman style, I was still not getting the silhouette I wanted. We met up and knocked it out in the next set.

This is our most current model, without the refined connections in the neck. It had the style of my sketch and gave off the desired "easter island" head appearance I liked about the sketch.

More in the next update: Bedroom and Kitchen environments, along with rigging steps.