5 Second Prject - Sel Portrait

This months 5 Second project from GSG was themed Self Portrait.

And this was my entry

Self Portrait - 5 Second Project from Ted Adair on Vimeo.

Cool title Effect!

I saw this example of a title on GSG and he put forth a small challenge to see if we could copy the same effect without using tutorials. so i gave it a whack.

title test from Ted Adair on Vimeo.

TEDdy Bear fever

I put together a Teddy bear Rig to try out some animation working with skeleton rigs. I thought it might be cool to see a teddy do some karate so i animated it.
here it is:

Teddy Karate from Ted Adair on Vimeo.

I came across a few issues which i could only see after the render. it was with the lighting setup. midway through the bears foot blocks one of the main light sources which causes the lighting in the room to change. Now 3d rendering is one of the most strenuous things you can put a computer through and on my new Pentium i7 core 3Ghz with 9GB RAM this 13second animation took 35hours, 40minutes and 20seconds to render. and because this was just a play around i couldn't warrant spending that much time re-rendering it.
Just thinking about it there were a few things i could of done to cut off some major time in that rendering process. I used things like ambient occlusion, global illumination, reflective floor and Hair(teddys fur) which were optional tools that i used to make it look pretty. ah well next time will be smooth i hope :)
Learn by doing!

House On Fire!

After creating smoke with particles for the twilight menu i was interested in developing this technique further. I wanted to create some particle generated fire with smoke that could ignight, extinguish and move around the scene realistically.

So i made this short sequence to test out some ideas, aslo gave me a chance to test out filming with the new canon 7D.

house ON fire from Ted Adair on Vimeo.