'nuther walk cycle

This is Bazt, a goblin- I made him a few months ago.
oof, I really coulda rigged this guy better, eh? he needs a toe flap controller, hand controls and much better skin weights- some of the volume retaining bones I put in havnt been skinned in at all:O I might end up making the jacket clothsim in places instead of joint-based like it is now.

Walk cycles though!  I'm still trying to get comfortable with basic mechanics. I need to do some hardcore studying soon.

40 min run cycle

I tried to limit myself to 40 min on this animation. I thought it would be time- efficient to just rip off the run cycle out of Richard Williams' book, but I ended up deviating a bit.

rough walk cycle

I'm going to make an effort to improve my 3d animation skills. I downloaded Proletariat's Zombination rig to practice. This anim took maybe two hours, cause thats how much time I had.
do gifs work on blogger? I hope so..

some dudes

I made a picture. Trying to push more simplified, stylized forms. I caught myself not practicing as hard as I should, so in the near future, Im going to budump-bump it up.

Caricatures

I did these at work, using mostly photoshop tricks. Tonnes of fun!

Bazt, a Goblin Pirate

I made a goblin pirate guy. Took longer than it should have, but I'm geeenerally happy with the end result. this was another project where I ended up learning alot, but couldn't apply what I had learned to the project without starting from scratch. I'm looking forward to the next one!
you can see a full turnaround and texture breakdown on my Portfolio Site

Some 3d Stuff

Just thought I'd drop off some wip shots of unfinished projects:

vray bathroom blockout

Because this texture is still in its infancy, I've concentated on the bigger blotches. the b+w image is eyelashes

update! playing with vray materials, and added some tweaks: