Creative Sheep *Biology of Animation*

I dug up some older images that I had created a long time ago and I decided to share with everyone.  These pieces were when I used Lightwave3D, and if you are aware I’m currently using Autodesk Softimage, I just love Softimage.

This image is of a Mech Machine, that I created in Lightwave3D.  I would like to create a Mech again.  Hopefully

when I finish the current projects I’m working on I will create something wild 🙂

This was a preying mantis animation, that I never completed.  And what you are seeing is a image of one of the finished frames.

For those of you using Mental Ray as your primary render or those new 3D and rendering or if you are courious as to what I do and how I do it.  You probably are aware that transparent materials have different Index of Refraction levels, you can download the PDF file at the end of this paragraph, and view the different IOF (index of refraction levels) for various materials for Mental Ray mr_notes-ior.

Mental Ray was created in Germany, and was used in many feature films including Panic Room with Jodie Foster and many other movies. Although Pixar uses Renderman for there primary engine and there are many other rendering engines out there used for animation and visual effects.

I will be adding some recent work soon again to stay tuned. I’m also re-reading Mental Ray for the Artist for Max, Maya and Softimage.  Having a understanding of the standard render engine Mental Ray has helped me in creating my animations to achieve the look that I want. It’s a must read and it’s a great foundation to help understanding rendering in general.

Speilberg admires Animators

The Great Steven Spielberg, describing how directors could learn a thing or two from Animators. Well this is my weekly update, as you may not know until now I update my blog on a weekly basis and unfortunately I don’t have anything new or anything in progress to tell you show you this week. Stay tuned next week, as I will probably have something to show you that I’m working on 🙂

For now talk to you later, and stay thirsty my friends 🙂

It has been a week since “The Creative Sheep” web site has launched, time goes by quickly doesn’t it. I want to mention that I’ve just finished a second version of “The Creative Sheep” motion graphics logo and I’ve put it on the web site. I’d also like to mention that, for anything new posted on the web site this blog is where you would find out, unless you frequently visit “The Creative Sheep” site. I’m working on a few other things so stay tuned more to come.

Christopher “The Creative Sheep”

The Creative Sheep is LIVE

Animator \ Motion Graphics Artist .. and web developer

Hello, welcome to The Creative Sheep after approx over a year on working on getting my web page designed, and going over some major maintenance on my server, including working on new projects which have been long overdue for completion.  I can proudly say that this is a start of a new positive beginning.

Stay Tuned as my blog and web site will be updated with new images and new animations.  You’ll find stuff that I’m currently working on,  within my blog.

Take a look at these links that I want to share with you that I found of interest.

Play With Spider – Flash 3D – OneMotion.com

http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/
(This is a cool flash spider that you can walk around and eat bugs with all created in flash, awesome)

I love animation.   These two particular pieces of animation did created for computer company, it has a nice catchy song and theme to it, I personally enjoyed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xPvD0Z9kz8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsp8oHKZzfo

These are the stages in which, I had written up to complete the ellen opening animation, including the audio parts when she speaks and so forth.  I didn’t animate ellen speaking word for word, I’ll explain in a brief tutorial on how I accomplished this soon.  Everything I do always starts on paper ! (Sorry you can’t view it larger, due to a mistake I had done)

The Creative Sheep

Take a look at this drawing and tell me what it looks like to you.

Hello, well as I have mentioned things were suppose to be together by now and they are not. I had some issue to take care of and some web dev issue with my page to take care of, but I’m glad to say that things are rolling along very nicley so nice in fact I will have everything up in about a weeks time, in the mean time we all like something sweet 🙂 This is a real pastery that was made for me by my family, I just enhanced it a little using my graphic design skills and gave it that “selling” power as if you would see it on a billboard ad.

And remember you can always check my blog for updates just bookmark this page or subscribe to a RSS feed (if the feeds don’t work email me and I will get it solved)

I just wanted to add this is a link to screen shots of Microsoft Windows 7 to be annouced probably not for another year but it looks like following the style that of the Macintosh Operating System which is OSX (if you don’t already know) Now briefly what is Windows 7 well currently most people out there are using WindowsXP, now you have already heard about Windows Vista which is just one big pain in the leg and most people have decided to stick with WindowsXP and not upgrade to Windows Vista well Microsft knows that, so that is where Windows 7 is to (maybe) be released by 2010.

Take a look at the link and the screen shots of Windows 7:
Screen shots of Microsoft Windows7