It's The World cup and Check Out "What i'm working on next" for the month of June.

Hello Peeps and welcome to another edition of HypefroActive. In today's edition, i get to talk about what i am working on next. Basically, i post pictures of whatever it is i am working on, share my thoughts and highlight challenges as well as observations on techniques and software. So the last time i wrote on this blog, i did mention that i encountered some problems but wasn't clear weather it was software or hardware issues. well, so far so good with this latest reel, software has been performing incredibly well, but i had issues with my laptop. it's an AMD, wicked with graphics but heats up quite quickly and terribly, you could consider it for a frying competition, yeah it's that bad. Ok, so i had to get it to a doc and wasted some four days or there about because the problem occurred in the weekend.
Doctor diagnosed and the result was that the VGA Card is bad or is going bad. So here is the thing, unless you leave in the south pole say around the Eskimos or in Mother Russia or anywhere very cold that could freeze your bones... Do not use The AMD. It's not for hot regions like west africa. And if you dont know, now you know.

Ok,as you can see, i'm working on an animation centered around soccer, representing a mascot for my country Nigeria, sort of. Yeah, i might add hair as in like, model a hair to it cause my friends complain that it's bald. And again, you'll probably notice that this is the first time i'll be going a bit into detail to texture a model. That's because my focus is on animating stuffs. Yeah i know, when you texture you get the feel, the animation looks cooler and real blabla. The truth is that even in this one, i could have dodged texturing. Just apply materials straight off the box from 3dsmax would do, but because i wanted it to look like the Super Eagles of Nigeria talking about the uniform, i had to texture. Ok, i wont lie, i'm glad i did.

Now this is what i did. I recalled the model for the bandit again Which is the same model that i used in animating "The Prayer" which could be found by clicking this link youtu.be/E3ZZ9eBJpgo   and i worked a little bit on the shape of it's head. i was going to use it's body but was becoming a drag at some point so i had to discard and start afresh with something new, which finally shaped out to what you see right now. So after modelling, I textured it plainly not having it look like anybody, just plain.

 yeah, i also gave the boots a mild texture as well even when i didn't want to. but again there is a part in the story that will require the boot been textured so, there it goes.Go go boot texture. Quite fairly you'ld agree. not my thing but, i try.

 So, after all the modellings and texturings, i baked them all up into the edit poly sub object level which is the base level for modelling in which i operate. Why? Eeeerrrr, no particular important reason, but i'ld say i do not think that i'ld be altering the textures on the model anymore and i'm trying to keep things really simple. i mean as simple as it can be. And that is one of the reasons why i'm rigging this model with a 3dsmax CAT rig. Quite simple rig, easy to set up and fun to use as well. coming with built in poses that can speed up your work flow depending on how good you are with it. And after i post this making readable for you, i'll proceed to skin then begin animating.

Thanks for your time and see you hopefully tomorrow. Yeah, if there's something you'ld like to see it do please put it down as a comment in this post not later that 12th of June 2014 and i'll do my very best to make it happen. Anything here means "anything that has to do with soccer, basically skillz".

And Yeah, unlike my other shorts, i dont intend to make this video more than a minute long, that's assuming it gets to a minute.