Sunday, 26 October 2014

Unicorn

A Unicorn.   The offical animal of Scotland since the 12th century.

So dangerous,  that in heraldry, it is always shown chained.  Horse-like,  with cloven hooves, the tail of a lion and a single horn.  It seemed fitting to also make it green-eyed and red haired.


A bit dangerous, right enough.

Monday, 23 June 2014

Return to sender

I got the return address sorted out in-case Better Together put any leaflets through my door.  I hope my local Post Office has a big set of scales.


Monday, 2 June 2014

Yes Windaes

Inspired by the #windaeref and @yeswindaes on twitter...


I had a model of a Barcelona Chair to fit in the room,  seems appropriate.  The poster on the wall is from Paul T Kavanagh, he has lots of great artwork over on Newsnet Scotland.

Update 27/6/14:  I've been getting some questions on where this photo was taken.  Sorry everyone, it is not real - here is the view before the textures and lighting are rendered in. 

But if anyone is handy with a glass-cutter and a blowtorch,  here is the pattern:



Friday, 23 May 2014

Unleashing the Yes Engine

A follow-on from the Yes topiary.  This is getting quite a few re-tweets and nice comments on Twitter already.

Unleashing the Yes Engine.


And an animated version...

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Cyber-Cameron

It takes a bit of effort to get from a sculpted head to a working model ready for posing and animation.  Sculpting creates an enormous number of polygons,  far too much to be useful in further scenes and models without some work.   Also,  for posing and animation,  the flow of edge-loops in the model has to work,  or you get some pretty ugly deformation.

After an evening of retopo work on the head,  making a suit, and using the Rigify add-on for Blender,  I have a poseable model.


It will be a couple of weeks until I can go through the same process with the Darling and Salmond sculpts.  And I am lining up Farage as a late addition.     With that done,  I will be reviewing old Spitting Image footage for some inspiration on political situation comedy.


I am making the Cameron model available under CC-Attrib.  You can grab a copy of the Blend file here.  Enjoy :)

...to make images like this one: