So yea.. been neglecting my Blog.. neglecting my personal 3D works as well..

Basically after getting my Xbox360.. My PC soon died afterwards which left me with nothing but the console to keep me occupied.. and Fifa 10 has occupied most of my time as of late as well.. which is cool.. since i am playing online with friends.. which is more enjoyable then playing alone.. which is the reason i got the xbox in the first place.. so i can play with friends..

Niwaes just wanted to post my Fifa 10 Game Face up.. for fun.. heh..

My Front and Side view images used for the Game Face.

My Game Face result which was done on the EA website. Pretty Good results compared to my previous lobster attempt.

And finally the in game Virtual Pro character using my Game Face. Its ok i guess. A bit far off from the web results though.

So yea basically been playing Fifa 10 much.. but there’s game that i am looking forward to which i am getting for my PC:

BORDERLANDS

Haven’t been this hyped up about a game since WoW.. hope the game does not disappoint! If its truly the awesome game i imagine it to be, i see myself spending hours on it getting the guns.. leveling to 50 questing with friends in party of 4.. awesome.. just awesome.. >.<

So.. being bored and uninspired.. decided to do this.. also gonna be the owner of an Xbox 360 Elite tomorrow (hopefully) and can’t wait for Fifa 10 release..

http://eat3d.com/free_mudbox_head

One of the best sculpting videos i have seen so far. Easy to understand and the workflow makes sense. I am now learning sculpting myself. Will post some updates soon.. for now need to catch up on sleep >.<

So many things to do.. so little time..

Some useful music tracks for you to use in your short films and reels.

http://incompetech.com/static/music/

http://www.jimmyg.us/FreeMusic/tabid/99/Default.aspx

http://www.jmtr.com/drupal/node/15

http://www.anthonykozar.net/music/ambient.html

http://www.danosongs.com/

http://www.audionautix.com/html/free_music.html

First off, go catch District 9. One of the best movies i’ve seen this year.

Secondly, watch this nice workflow for concept art using Alchemy, Gimp and MyPaint (all open source software) by David Reroy. This is also part of the Durian project.

Right, nothing else to do so i am posting an old interview i did for a malay variety magazine called Manja. No translations as yet, might do it if i am bothered to. I photoshopped out the 2nd interview, coz i can. Yea it’s a stupid interview and i hate it when people spell my name wrongly.. but ah what the heck.. it’s stupid anyways.. and so is your face. BOOYAAH!

Found these over at Cooked Art:

Awesomeness as usual.

Hollywood Camera Works has donated some very cool green screen plates for people to play with.

Quoted from their site:

It has always irritated us that there are no green screen and VFX plates around the internet you can just download and play with — everything is owned by some production. So we decided to donate some of the interesting plates from Visual Effects For Directors to the community, so you can download them and practice keying, matchmoving, compositing, tracking, and much more!

I might give it a go to try some compositing works in Blender as well.

Some updates:

Been having some complications recently which have kept me from updating the blog too often and doing anything creative in my free time. Mainly had high fever not too long ago due to exhaustion i think (mainly sleeping too little and still going gym), and recently infected gums due to my wisdom tooth which is causing me great pain indeed. Enough to keep me from sleeping on the first few nights when it was still swollen. Gonna be plucking 2 of them out soon. Another 2 maybe after fasting month or something.

Niwaes will try and get back to doing daily paintings/sketches again to keep things alive.

The team from down under just released a trailer for Annecy:

Freaking Awesome work as usual. Really need to learn their lighting/rendering methods. Very nice results… I also really like the animations for the Bill character.. the rig of course is the one they released for Blenderheads to play with.