Clippers

So I decided to go with nailclippers as my object to animate.

I've been kind of neglectful of this blog over the last week or so. With that in mind I decided to make a video because it's easier to explain everything that way. it's the first time I've made one of these so it's a bit rough I hope I get better at these.

Render02

This is a render of how it looks, I'd like to get some shadows in this to make it not look like it's floating and it looks a little dark on my screen. I'm using and HDRI image based light to get the realistic reflections and I'm using the mia_material_x material to get the pretty looking reflections

Lamp Exercise

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First crack at it in class. Not too hot going to have another go.

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Second Attempt, Not too happy with the bit at the end, I'll have a break and then come back to it.

Potential Objects to Animate

Liquid Soap Bottle

Could have some interesting interactions with the liquid inside.

Computer Mouse

The wire could make for an interesting tail, other than that it's a little boring

Nail Clippers

I like the articulatation and I was playing with mine and found a potential "Walk" See Video.

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I like that it has a bitey ellement to it, potentially could be a vicious character.

Slinky

A slinky would be a cool object to animate and you could have it jumping around ect, but I think it could be quite tricky to rig the spring so that it moved realisticly.