Well after a long difficult study session, I am happy to announce I am done with the face rigging for the cast of Antipathy.  That would be the Locust Commander , Marcus, DOM, Cole, Baird, and possibly a few more.  Here is a screenshot of the guys in action and though it can ALWAYS be improved, I am pretty happy with the facial movement at this point.  I am finding that facial animation is the Black Hole of improvement so I have to force myself off of this task and on to the next.  But anyway I am happy to be at this point and begin the facial animation in Unreal Ed.

I am also in the market for a mocap system thinking that now is as good a time as ever to make that investment.  Have my eye on a couple and will let you all know when I get closer to pulling the *gulp* trigger.

I leave you with a screenshot of the crew posing for us.  Cheers!

I am pleased to announce that we are delaying the release date of our Gears of War short “Antipathy”.  Why am I pleased?  What could possibly be so wrong with me that I could be happy about this travesty? Because it will make the film a gabillion times better that’s why!

First of all I need to thank everyone for their helpful comments on the plethora of blogs, forums, websites, etc that Antipathy was promoted.  99% of the comments have been very positive and I would just like to say that I, the creator, feed off of this.  It really helps keep you motivated, so huge thanks there.  Of course this is somewhat of a double edged sword as it made me really analyze the film under the proverbial microscope.  So what am I doing?


First: I am totally redoing the opening sequence, adding entire scenes that will help the viewer get a much clearer idea of what is going on.


Second: I don’t want to say too much here but I am creating a system that will allow me to demolish a city in unreal.


Third: I am totally redoing the fight scene and ending. One of the biggest criticisms I got (and maybe rightfully so) was about the locust ninja.  So I will tone that down a bit and make it closer to GoW reality.  And for those of you asking about why there are no guns, there is a def a reason why they don’t use guns.


Four: Adding dialog. This will be difficult and will require me to rig each COG head with facefx.  In addition I will have to use suitable voices for the characters.

New Face Rig in 3DS max

I will also be releasing another trailer as we get a little bit closer to the release date.  That’s about it, thanks again for your support and I will keep you all updated as to my progress.


ps – yes Marcus IS in the film

its OK Marcus...

I  am happy to announce that the Antipathy trailer was featured on Game Trailers this week

and

is now featured at IGN’s “Best of the Web”


Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and to Termi who promoted the trailer on both sites.