As project development goes on, we thinking about more and more stuff. One of them is the camera.

• Here is little tutorial about depth of filed - http://www.gignews.com/artistkapp0700.htm

• http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2007/12/11/depth-of-field-pass-for-maya-or-mentalray/
• dynamic camera setup - http://www.grafiskkooperativ.dk/mads/dyn_cam.htm
  

This is tutorial I ve used for creating the sky dome four our scene - http://www.dezfx.com/HTML_pages/TutorialPages/skyDome.html




plus I ve added a sun with simple glowing effect on the sphere

Bjork video - Wanderlust

Some magic :)

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/bjork_wanderlust_3d_video

Film Crew

Just now I ve dressed up film crew, journalist wearing costume and camera man jeans , black T-Shirt and white traners.

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in 3D

Painter character

Today I ve been working on the painter character and his tools. all fully textured and ready to go. Also I have to make a ladder.

2D in 3D world

This is some further research from book called 2D and beyond.





Plus some poster on the street

Dog

Steve made this few days ago, today I have rigged it. in order to do it I had to change the model quite a bit.

before:
after:

that how the rig looks like:

poses

Today I have been painting weights on the skin for the mans character.

Next I am going to rig the dog which Steve has modelled. Now looking for the tuturials how to do it in the right way. Some of them:

• http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=102262
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Character Rig

Once I started to rig the character I rezlized that places ob bend doesn't not look very nice, so I had to go back and adjust the model quite a bit, I came with decision of making a gap on the elbows, shoulders and knees, that would give the acting model more easthetic look. Ofcourse I have to make all the UV and textures again :)

3D character development

Yesterday I started to make a cardboard man and UV layout

storyboard

Today we showed our storyboards to the people which gave us some comments.

Potential characters :)

Recycle adverts

Series of recycle orientated adverts:
http://www.recyclenow.com/fun_stuff/watch_it_here/recycle_now_tv.html

Interesting facts

General Recycling

• Each UK household produces over 1 tonne of rubbish annually, amounting to about 31 million tonnes for the UK each year [source: Waste Watch]
• Every year, the average dustbin contains enough unrealised energy for 500 baths, 3500 showers or 5,000 hours of television. [source: www.assurre.org]
• On average every person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks [source: Waste Watch]
• Every 8 months the UK produces enough waste to fill Lake Windermere (the largest lake in England) [source: Waste Watch]
• In less than 2 hours the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall
  [source: Waste Watch]
• The cost of managing the municipal waste produced in England is around £1.6 billion per year [Source: Waste not, Want not; Cabinet Office, 2002]

Plastic Recycling

• Recycling just one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60W light bulb for six hours [Source: Recoup]
• It takes just 25 two litre pop bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket [Source: WRAP]
• 13 billion plastic carrier bags are used in the UK each year. [source: Defra]

Choose to Reuse

Little bags, big impact

The facts

As the bags often appear light and flimsy, you might not think about their impact on the environment, but statistics for the UK show that each year:

• more than 10 billion carrier bags are produced;
• if laid end-to-end, these would stretch to the moon and back five times;
• 80% of shoppers put everything into free carrier bags at the supermarket; and
• 100,000 tonnes of plastic bags are thrown away – that’s the same weight as 70,000 cars!

Most bags are used only once for carrying goods between the shops and home, which is such a waste, especially when you consider that the majority of free carriers are made from oil - an increasingly valuable commodity. When dropped, they are an eyesore for us and can pose a danger to wildlife.

When carrier bags end up in landfill they can take hundreds of years to decompose!

The good news is..

it's easy to play your part in reducing carrier bag waste:

• use your shopping bag as many times as possible;
• remember to take bags with you every time you go shopping;
• keep spare bags in your car or at work so you’re never without;
• invest in stronger reusable bags, sometimes known as bags for life; and
• let the check-out staff know you’ve brought your own before they pack for you!

Changing habits

Most people say they simply forget to take and reuse their old carriers or reusable bags at the supermarket. As a nation we need to get into better habits, but we also need to find out what works best for UK shoppers.

Remember to take a bag when they leave the house, along with essentials such as their keys, wallet or purse. Instead of picking up a free carrier bag, try and remember to reuse your old carriers, bags for life or a cloth bag or a rucksack.

Whatever you choose, choose to reuse!

Bags, bags, bags

Series of videos dedicated to plastic bag issues - http://www.youtube.com/user/plasticisdrastic

plastic bag monster

Bag story_2

Today is Monday, Steve and me had a chat with Jason about our Final Major project.
Bag story is seems to be alright, but as I mentioned before has to be brainstormed. Jason really liked the idea of the guy buying little pack of chewing gum and taking huge plastic bag for it and later on dropping it on the street. He suggested to make a round composition and show that this bag after causing all those problems, which I have mentioned before, bring some troubles to this guy. Probably it would be a good idea to show that this man went to that shop from the factory nearby to get his lunch. And finally this bag makes this factory (Plastic recycle factory) explode and guy looses his job and all the plastic bags from the factory hanging on the trees.