Nell the Narcoleptic 2

Been a while since posting Nell updates cos we’re so busy in the bat cave working. WE ARE NEARLY FINISHED! Just 3 more shots to animate… this is the last big one that’s nearly done :)

Nell’s signature.  We’ve exported this as a vector path and will import it into After Effects to make it appear as if a pen is writing it.

Scene10_Shot01 WIP 1 from Chilliboom Ltd on Vimeo.

First shot of the bomb sequence, WIP 1

A little script I found to add an object to a lattice that exists in your scene already:

Select the lattice, then the object.  Paste the following into the script editor, select all the code, and press numerical enter (that’s the enter by your keypad; the other big enter will add a new line but you want to execute the code):

string $selSet[] = `ls -sl`;

string $lattice = $selSet[0];

string $object = $selSet[1];

lattice -e -g $object $lattice;

Source: http://www.fuse-design.org/blog/tutorials-cg/how-to-maya-add-object-to-lattice-tutorial

Woohoo!  Bomb guy 1 and 2 (which are the same essentially but one is scaled smaller) are rigged and ready for action!  Significant milestone: no more rigging for the rest of the project, woot!

Scene07_Shot02 WIP from Chilliboom Ltd on Vimeo.

Scene13_Shot02 Animation WIP

Scene 01 Shot 08 - Animation WIP.  Needing a final polish, but had to battle with lots of constraints so pretty happy that this one is nearly out of the way!

Agent looking his best for his pamphlet promo. This will sure bring in people needing a job in one day!

Agent’s expression sheet.  In the 3d character we had to lose the moustache as it was getting a bit tricky to work in conjunction with all the blend shapes and squish deformers.

Fatty’s face and body rigging is complete, w00t!  

He has 29 blendshapes AND squish controls, so he’ll be the 3rd most organic/expressive character after Nell and Agent.

Fatty Facial Upgrade - loopy goodness.  His body is rigged, and we’re about 1/2 through the face setup. (He’ll have a less comprehensive blendshape set than Nell as he’s in far fewer shots and goes through less facial variations).

Nell has 45 separate facial blendshapes.