March 2009
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Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
February 2009
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Animation
Animation has begun on our main scene.  Here is a frame grab.
Feb 28th
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Texturing Lou
We have textured our Lou character and I’ll show you how we did it.  First I went to ShareCG and grabbed a 1K square texturing grid. Next we applied this texture to Lou to see how the square lie.  You can use this information to determine many things including which form of UV mapping you want to use to flatten out your UVs.  This is what Lou looked like. Using this information we...
Feb 15th
January 2009
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Jan 7th
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Holiday Work Session 2
Justin and I got together for another Holiday Work session where we focused on texturing and our Character rig.  The rig has been giving us a lot of trouble.  The hair keeps coming off Lou’s head, he doesn’t scale correctly, his body bends over in weird ways.  Texturing on the other hand has been quite successful.  We were originally planning for the texturing stage to come after...
Jan 7th
December 2008
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Holiday Work Session 1
Justin and I spent two days together at my place working on Inspected By.  We accomplished a lot including finishing modelling the set, props, and character.  The character is also fully rigged and we are ready to animate.
Dec 11th
November 2008
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Nov 23rd
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Update
We haven’t had much rendered since our Pitch on October 20th so I thought I would update our blog.  We are currently working with our character Lou, getting him modeled, rigged and prepped for animation.  We are on schedule and are looking forward to the month of December or “Animation Month” as we call it.  Check back for more updates. -camkerr
Nov 1st
October 2008
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Oct 20th
Oct 20th
Oct 20th
Oct 20th
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Inspected By - Proposal
Inspected By Summary of Proposed Project Inspected By (working title) is an entertaining digitally animated short film.  Running only a few minutes in length, the film is written and presented in a way that creates a fun atmosphere for the viewing audience.  The goal of this project is to show that a professional level short can be created with off the shelf software on a very limited budget. ...
Oct 6th
September 2008
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Inspected By - Draft
Inspected By (Working Title) Digitally Animated Short Film Cameron Kerr & Justin Cerilli Concept Setting              Present day, in a toy factory.  This particular factory specializes in the production of simplistic dolls that come pre-packaged with an abundance of manufactured joy. Characters Lou: A post middle-aged man who takes great pride in his position on the inspection line.  A 30...
Sep 22nd