kitchen refference pictures

Hi. Here are some refference pictures for myself. Ignore this post :)

a bit offtopic

the other project I'm currently working on. Every 3dbuzz student should recognize it ;)

singing rat, body modeling

Here's what I have done so far.

retopologizing the singing rat's head

topology change in progress. Zbrush is giving me hard time, crashing quite often (usually when I'm trying to save my work).

modeling the singing rat

modeling the singing rat's body. work in progress

zbrush action

zbrushing singing rat's head. After 6 hours of work still not happy with the result.


and the next version. Added forehead, cheekbones, bigger ears and nose. So far I'm happy with it and will let it settle for a while. Time to work on rat's body!

first 25 sec of storyboard

arrival of my new laptop is delayed so I'm pretty much stuck with drawing stage at the moment.So not to waste time, I did some storyboard drawing.

first 25 seconds in pictures
also a sequence with sound to get a better idea:

stealing rat, image planes

head image planes for cheese stealing rat

some more concept art

this is what the kitchen should look like. Night, long shadows, dark. Some houseware laying around the tables etc.

stealing rat, action pose

working on stealing rat's action pose

That didn't work. Here's my final action pose for cheese stealing rat.
and development as usual

singing rat, image planes

just finished image planes for head. Body will follow soon
and here's the body.

singing rat, action pose

trying some action poses for lead singer
and 4 hours later:
and development:

cheese stealing rat

this little guy will try to steal some cheese and will be caught :)

Keywords for character:
- weak, small, coward but greedy at the same time
- rather mice than rat
- a bit clumsy

Also a quick character development preview

singing rat, 8 hours later

ok I guess it's finished now. I modified my previous draft, the rat started looking to evil & powerful (it's supposed to look funny, remember). I tried to add a bit jamaican feeling as well (noticed the hat, didn't you?) so it would fit better with overall song style. So my lead singer is "bad clever reggae rat who owns the place" Maybe I should draw him with 5 toes, thinking about that...


... some hours later....got some feedback from fellow classmates and did a quick redraw for foot, knees and created a tail, (somehow forgot that, thanks micgaz!).


Also a quck chararcter development preview

singing rat, second attempt

work in progress, creating bad-boy look for lead singer. Not really happy with hands at this point, probably will redraw.

Keywords for character:
- bad-boy, evil grin
- leather vest, leather trousers
- massive gold necklace, ear-ring
- tattoo, black gloves
- chain at the belt
- owns the place

singing rat

this one is supposed to look bad-guy. I'm having troubles giving him the look, still looks so friendly and innocent :)

concept art

I've started drawing up some ideas for my rats. Following is my very first drawing. Needs an improvement :)

progress so far

hi there.

It may look like I've done nothing for past month.. well it's only half-true. I've played around with several stories for animation and finally decided to go with a music video styled thing. (you have probably seen similar concepts in youtube already, a pop song with some qute animals singing etc).

I've decided to go with UB40's "rat in the kitchen". I will not post the story here as it's pretty much a rat singing the song while another rat is trying to steal some cheese. (and a backround band if I have time to model extra rats).

Welcome (what's it all about?)

nice to have you here!

This blogs only purpose is to log my achievements in 3dbuzz's Digital Production Class. I will post here my progress and work in progress (wip).

The objective in this class is to go through the complete production pipeline and create a shot animation with sounds, fx and more.