Color Concept

Some characters’ textures progresses

Some progresses on my characters’ textures. All of them have base textures on them. Bump map and specular map are not yet created for them. Also they need more detail works such as their fingers, clothes, teeth, turkey’s win, feet and mouth.

First animation layout, first draft layout.

Some little town center progress

Rigid character, first shot

After another month of work, I have finally rigid three of my main characters. Also I have finish most of modeling job, including the town center. It is time to move on the texturing job next week.

Charlie

Here comes Charlie's facial expression

Adam

Here comes adam's body and his facial expression. Too bad Adam is out of the project now. His body will be adjust to Charlie's body.

Extras

Here are a few extras in the story.

The butche

Here comes the butcher’s body and facial expression.

The town center is in working progresses

The town center is in working progresses right now, and it still needs a lot of works. It has so many details need to add. I guess I will spend lots time on texturing it in August………Well, I hope I can finish all model by end of August………really hope that will happen.

Final turkey model

Modeling the turkey is actually easy then I thought, but I run in so many troubles when I skinning it. I still can’t figure out how to make its eye lid open and close properly and smoothly………by the way, his toes are actually human characters’ fingers…..well, it works well.

Sketch of the turkey

Here is a sketch of the turkey.

Chicken study

Well, I need a few reference pictures so I can model my turkey character. I made the chicken in sit down and run poses. This study help out a lot and it makes the modeling processes faster. However, the facial blend shape drives me crazy. Too much works actually. Anyway, it is kind of fun to work with this chicken..... or turkey character. I watched "Finding Nemo (the bird)" for facial shape reference as well.

Sketches of Characters

Here are sketches of my three main human characters. The Turkey is not here yet, because I haven't got a chance to buy a really turkey or chicken for the image reference purpose. All Character models should be done by end of July with all facial shapes and textures set up. Also bone set up by the same time.

Sketch of the butcher shop

Here comes a sketch of the butcher shop. It is a key scene in the project.

The Town Center

Here comes the town center. I don't know how to name it yet, but if you have any idea, please let me know. It is a European style building. I mixed with different styles of roof together and to make it has a more interesting look. By the way, the entire animation will be in this scene. There are three shops on the street. A fruit shop, a butcher shop and a cafe shop.

New Heads

New Image for the portfolio review section tomorrow. The new butcher head is here. I modified it by Zbursh from the old model. I will have a chance to talk to Rich McKain who is an Animator from the Blue Sky studio.

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Here I am. It is kind of fun to scan my face from the scanner.

Man, the team, team works, lets rock this project...................

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Frank Tai

WACOM Power

Look Look , it is my new weapon. Just arrived last week and I have been working with it pretty well. It helps a lot when I create different facial shapes in Zbrush. It is WACOM power.

Concept for my portfolio site

Well, it is my first concept of my new portfolio web site. I think I am gonna use my roofer characters as the main concept. Hopefully I will finish this site before this coming September.

Storyboard process, the story should be complete by end of this month. It needs more detail. It takes me three of four days to draw all those little pictures.

My little production corner

First draft of my three main characters

Three of my main characters, Turkey, Charlie and Adam. They are my first draft, so I will add more detail in the next few days.

Story is there

The story has been created. The story should be done by end of this month. At least I got a name for it. The Roofers.

First Day

It is gonna be my capstone blog. I will keep updating new images whenever I have something new or exciting done. The project should be done by December 2006. By the way, this is my profile picture on the Facebook.