Pixelbot

A little pixely robot I animated.
Available as a VJ loop at Free Loops.

HuisBot-38

I'm not that good with blogs and updates....
Anyway! A while ago I finished my latest sculpture.

Meet HuisBot-38!

Check out the rest of the photo's on the page of this sculpture: http://huisnr.koenst.nl/038

Paper Robot House

Almost finished with a new little sculpture. I decided to continue in the style of Do The Robot, and make another paper robot. It's not only for myself though, the base of the robot is made up out of one of the wooden houses of graphic designer Koen de Wilde. He hands out these houses to anyone who wants to create something with the little wooden object. Check out his website: http://huisnr.koenst.nl/

Photo's coming soon. And in a few weeks there'll be some more news on another matter..

Robot Walkcycle

I'm very busy with the compositing of my movie, and honestly, there's still too much that needs to be done. I have to go back to all the previous After Effects files, check them for little mistakes and improve them. The version for my final exam was a very quick composited version, so things such as keying are done very roughly. Sometime's it goes a little bit slow, but I'm making little bits of progress about every day.


Here's a new preview!

Sneak Peek

I'm still very very busy with animating, at the moment I have 4 scenes left, about 14 shots to animate.

I've had some camera troubles a few weeks ago, almost had to send my 60D for repairs, but luckily I found out that there was something wrong with my usb cables. Apparently when you use a usb extension cord it can frak up your camera connection on the newest imacs. The stupid part is that it cost me about a week to fix the problem, so hurray for wasting precious animation time!

Anyway, I have a small making of/teaser video for you guys. It's basically a timelapse of how I animated the robot's walkcycle, and the rough end result. It's the uncomposited version of the cycle since I really wanted to show off some animation, but I don't want to spoil anything of the film.



The cycle looks a bit jittery now, but it looks better when it actually moves forward :)

Time-lapse

A short time-lapse, this was a 9 hour animating session for about 8 seconds of animation.

Robot in motion

I've finished two new shots this week!
They are the first shots I animated with my robot puppet. I try not to show too much, so instead of showing the shots, I will show you one of my test animations as a teaser. I will try to post some time-lapses too, when I get the time to edit them a little.

It's not much but that's all I can show right now without spoil too much.
I did some more little tests like this to get a feel of the puppet. The animations in the final shots will be better :)

Bleep

Update time! New robot pictures!
Ofcourse it's not done yet.. this is just a dry assembly, I need to gleu some of the joint parts to the puppet and make sure the joints are nice and comfy/tight.











As you can see I still have to finish the mouth replacements, and the eyelids.
I'm still surprised that I made the robot so heavy, shouldn't have used that much wood. I'll need to build a supporting rig in case the robot needs to stand on one leg.

Also, I had my first exam last week, but they gave me half a year extra to finish my film. Which I'm glad about because I became too stressed out lately.
It's good to know that I have enough time to animate properly and fine tune my film :)