(A really boring post.)

After the last post I was quite productive, until my laptop crashed, hard drive failed and I lost everything. So this month I've been a few bad things away from a break down, so I haven't got a lot to show ya!

It was one of my faves (and fellow Back to the Future fan) birthday this month, so I made him a little felted hoverboard. ^_^ Third one I've made, and probably the neatest one! yay for improvement? 

Update on the Carrie drawing. Still not finished. 

I've put so many hours into this and it doesn't even feel close to finished! 

Hopefully next post it'll be done. ^_^

Life update: Went to Bristol Aquarium. Saw Turtles. Check it outttt.

(3 months til New Zealand. ^_^ )

So. Much. Rig. Removal.

I've spent the past two weeks animating, editing everything, while spending last week at work experience at the wonderful Trampires working on Chuck Steel, so yeah I'm totally cream crackered! 

I've spent so long on After Effect the last couple of weeks, I felt like I should at least one post about it. 

LOOK AT ALL THE MASKS!

Removing two rigs out of a 16 second animation. Ouch.

When the character falls off, I wanted the camera to shake. Honestly I couldn't explain how I did it, so yeah, here's a printscreen of it. All I can remember is that I had to type 'wiggle'. Proper coding like. 

Ultimate Image!

I'm so so happy with how my hoverboard animation turned out, considering how awful it was to animating. (Two rigs, ugh) So I decided to use it in my ultimate image! 

And here's the final ULTIMATE image! 

'Shark still looks fake.'

My first animation planned involves a hover-board, and being a huge Back to the Future fan I've never been so excited to make a prop before! Its without a doubt the coolest thing I'm ever going to make!

Here's the making process! ^_^

I dug two little holes out of the balsa wood so I could glue magnets for the armatures feet.

Then I glued the little extra bit of wood to give the board a better shape.

Then the rest was all needle-felted! I cut the purple felt slightly smaller than the board, and then started to needle-felt the pattern into it.

So the board will be able to look like its hovering with the magic of After Affects a rigging point was needed so I glued two bits of K&S to the bottom pattern and covered it with grey felt circles.

When both sides were finished I needle felted them to sheets of bright pink felt and cut around the pattern, leaving a boarder of pink felt. 

Then to finish I sewed both of the sheets of felt together around the wood. Here it is finished. :}

Oh, and heres how the rig attaches to the board! Pretty nifty right?