Time for a knee's up!

Boulangerie Parisien

I've modelled a building for the 2CV animation. Will have some fun adding more buildings to the scene.

Digital Round-up

This week saw the launch of two digital projects I was involved in so I thought it was time for a Digital round-up.
First up is Plug-in Media's Driving Academy for CBBC.
'Put your skills to the test in this challenging driving game. Watch out for speed cameras and other obstacles whilst trying to meet your target time!' Theres a case study of the project here.
Next up is a series of three new Christmas themed apps for Disney Junior made by Kanoti
I joined the Brighton based creative team to provide Illustration and animation assets.
Lastly, The Octonauts has been nominated for Best Companion Website at the Kidscreen awards. winners will be announced at the second-annual Kidscreen Awards ceremony, taking place in February 2012 at the New York Kidscreen Summit.

Children's Baftas 2011

Congratulations to all the winners at this years Children's Baftas, especially Harley Bird and all the crew at the Elf factory for the double win Best Performer and Best Pre-school animation for Peppa Pig! Full list of winners here.

2CV on the move!

Norman weight lift

2CV render

Citroen 2CV challenge

As I haven't had much time to model recently, I set myself the challenge of creating a model from scratch in one day and here are the results! I was particularly inspired by the vehicles in the new Tintin movie, so I chose a Citroen 'deux cheveaux'. I'm planning to do some animation tests with it, so have left it light on detail. Colour render coming soon!

Norman Rig

The Knight

Inspired by our recent vist to Puy de Fou in France here is the Knight Guillaume de Puy de Fou.

Playing with trains

Train test

I built this train to learn more about rigging in Maya. The pistons and connecting rods are guided by the wheel rotations using constraints. I also experimented with driven keys. The track was made using a motion path, animation snapshot and animated sweep. The train also follows the motion path. To add carriages i'm planning to build an IK chain.

Mmm, Sausages

Pheasant

VW Bus Turntable

Alfa Romeo Monza turntable

Alfa render test

First couple of renders to check model. Some texturing to follow!

More Alfa Progress

Overall modelling complete, now starting to add in the detailing.

Alfa Progress

Alfa Monza

Here are a couple of screen grabs of my latest polymodelling project. Its based on a 1930's Alfa Romeo racer.
Main body and wheels complete.

On the river

Peppas Camper

Suppertime Serenade

Welcome to Suppertime serenade a new Tom and Jerry flash game I helped to design and animate for Plug-in media.

Blakes Walk

Blake walk from oliver brown on Vimeo.

Mental ray

First go at rendering with Mental ray, pretty excited about the results!

Render!

First proper render using Maya software renderer.

Bus now in colour

With just a few more tweaks to go, I couldn't resist adding a bit of colour to the bus. Its a based on the classic VW colour scheme of Palm Green / Sand Green.
Final modelling touches included exposed cargo door hinges, rear light clusters and number plates and mirrors. So onwards to texture, light and render!

More bus progress

More progress, windows further defined, reworked front wheelarches. Airvents, nose badge, door handles and Towel rails on bumpers added. Wheels detailed.

VW Bus, a work in progress

Blakes lift

Blake Lift from oliver brown on Vimeo.

Heres a weight lifting test made using Maya.