#rough model

Sneak peak at my next project -- going a lot bigger and more detailed.

My work: njbice.com

I have remade my plan and the timeline of work to now be focusing of a modelled, rigged, and animated quadruped. We have only ever modelled and rigged bipedal characters, and have done only one beginner walk cycle (which I was not very proud of). I think it would be extremely beneficial to apply myself to this so I can show off better technical rigging, and have a quadrupedal model that I can animate and use however I wish. This will be based on a bi pedal model I have thus far. It is a eastern style dragon and I have a current model as a bipedal character, which will not work for a short film I am working on, nor to practice quadrupedal rigging. Thus I shall re model it to better rig it. Current bipedal character:

And the new concept model sheet:

I also have a rough rigging planned on top of this to demonstrate how I will begin the skeleton. I am referencing works such as Kung Fu Panda for rigging and animating, as their characters such as Tigress and Viper have very unique rigging techniques. I also will reference Disney's Mulan for the dragon character Mushu's animated actions and movements, as I find it difficult to find life references of dragons. The following are some very interesting articles on different such rigging techniques.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.474.9719&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://gsanitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/animation-talk-with-kung-fu-panda.html

Finally doing some scenic design again! It felt great to jump into sketch modeling and I'm excited to make decisions and refine this design.

This is for the Revolutionists by San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson at American Conservatory Theater's Costume Shop Theater, produced, designed, and directed by this year's class of fellows.

Keep up with this project here: