T-rex is done.

So, its been a wile since my last blog update but my T-rex is done and I'm off to a new project (wich I'll also post here) so now is a good a time as any to get my blog up and running again.

Here's my rex from beginning to final image.
This project was purely about moddeling so no textures (yet).

Box moddeling:



Some more details added:



Some more details and smoothing:



Feet it! It has feet! This was by far the hardest part of the project to get done.



Posing time! Decided on a camera angle and a nice pose for my rex, though I see his hindleg is sticking through the ground, woops.



Here my rex is in all his wireframe glory:



And here he is after being put through z-brush for some displacement.



So, thats it for my rex for the time being, now I'm off to a much more difficult project, character moddeling.

Movie review.

"Orphan"

I've been hearing some decent things about this movie so I thoughted I'd take some time out and see it.

I really shouldnt have.

The story follows a family who, after having been trough some tough times (alcoholisme, miscarige), decide to addopt a child.

Now why they would to this when they already have two kids is beyond me, its somewhat explained when the mother, Kate (Vera Farmiga) tells her plucky husband John (Peter Sarsgaard) that she wants to give the love she had for Jessica (the child she lost) to someone else.

Appearantly her own kids just arent deserving of that love, the little bastards.

The child they decide to adopt is Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) a nine year old girl who acts just a little to grown up for her age.

After a while strange things start to happen and the audience is left in the dark as to why, could it be the little girl? Or is Kate just being paranoid?

Okay so I lied a little there, we are not left in the dark at all, the movie makes it clear from the get go that Esther is a murdereous little bitch and from there the movie just becomes an exercise in tedium.

I say this because the movie uses one of the most annoying structures I can think of (besided that of romantic comedies).
Only one character expects there's something wrong with cute little Esther but when she mentions things might just be a little "off" the rest just of the characters just shrug it off as her being paranoid.

From there the movie just goes trough the motions of the genre (jump scares galore!) only to reach one of the dumbest plot twists of the last couple of years.

A twist explained by some Bob who wasnt in the whole movie and just comes along, peeks his head around the corner and explains the whole movie for us only to dissapear again, great writing there.

One would think a plot twist might alter the course of the story a little, the only thing it did here was turn the movie in even more of a bog standard thriller with a climax exaclty the same as you've seen in a thousand of movies before.

My advice? Dont watch the movie.

I give it a 2 out of 10.

Rex Update

Ah! The Rex is taking shape now, still not entirely happy with it but I still have plenty of wigglespace to adjust the thing.



Now to make the feet, something I've been dreading for a wile now.
Like hands, they're not easy things to make, let alone attaching them to the body without issues
I have to admit, the way I attached the arms and the legs to the body arent really what you would call "clean" so I'll have to find a way to fix the ugly.

A couple of trailers

First there is:

'District 9' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

Now this movie has me excited, to bad it needed the Halo movie to go all balls up for it to be made but damn...want!

And then there is:



Not shure what to think of this yet, though the trailer is pretty sweet.

T-rex is kicking my ass.

Now with a title like that you'de expect something just insanely awesome right?

Well sorry to dissapoint, there is no actual T-rex kicking my actual ass.

What I was talking about though is my latest 3D project.
I've always been a fan of Jurassic park so I decided it was time to make my own dinosaur.

Here's a little Z-brush test:



Now in my infinite wisdome I made this head faaar to high poly to be able to do anything with it.

So I started again, feast your eye's upon this!


In case you didnt figure it out, its still a work in progress.
I've been working on it some more afther I made that little still but I just cant seem to get the thing right.

Now back to polygon pushing.

More updates soon.

Bloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog!

Yes, I made one.

This will be a place where I dump may thoughts, work and probably some movie reviews

Enjoy.