> Ballantyne's Blog: February 2014

Wednesday 26 February 2014

First Attempt at Meshing & Blah-blah

So, this is my first-attempt at meshing something in Milkshape.





I made it because I reeeeally needed a leg-cast for my SIFF film (and I couldn't find one for TS3 anywhere). It's not fancy (it's just a cylinder that I squished and pulled a bit  :3 )

It's essentially like a giant sock.  I got mega-lazy with the texture too, but the texture isn't terribly important for my film. Ehhhhhhh.

Progress on my SIFF film is going quite poorly, still stuck on the animation phase (I still have at least 10-15 more custom animations to make in Blender).



It doesn't help that I'm getting distracted by this epic animation book I just bought (or maybe it does?).

Hopefully my next post will be more productive. I'll stop whinging now.







Tuesday 18 February 2014

Randomness

Alright, I think I can get something done in time for SIFF after all. Got an idea for a short that goes for about a min or so :3


Saturday 8 February 2014

SIFF Spring Unlikely

Not sure if I'll be able to get a SIFF film done now.  I had about three different ideas, and was starting to roll with an exciting sci-fi one, then I realised it was too similar to another machinima I had seen previously, so I figured it was safer to scrap it :P

Second idea was kinda cliché (about some guy that got in a fight with some other guys that landed him in the hospital) and the fight scenes would've been difficult to animate >_<

Third idea was straight-up trippy, "weird shit", which I kinda liked, but not sure if anyone else would :3

Ah.... I might take a break from all things Sims I think. Just for a week. Maybe that'll refresh things for me.

Maybe  >_>

(/ end mini-ramble).




Saturday 1 February 2014

"Counting Stars" Parts 12 and 13

Finished :) This is a short machinima part I made for DrewStudio's Multi Editor Project.

It was fun to make, but I had a lot of technical issues >_<

Apologies for the lag and not-very-good greenscreen scenes. Two things I need to work on in the future!




Anyway, I'm going to work on my SIFF entry next. I just need to get over this pesky writers block .... :P