AMAZING!

Something really amazing happened few minutes ago in 3dMax.

I needed a smaller version of Silly Billy and thought about scaling the mesh, Bones, controllers and all this stuff knowing it wouldn't work - but why not try at least...

And the wonder happened! It all works normaly and perfect - even the morphtargets and the textures are OK... WOW... I must have built a really good rig ;-)

June

Damn... Now it's already june. Time passes sooooooo quickly.

In one week I planned to hand in my short movie - that means on the 9th of june.
I can't say that I have done nothing but I definitifely can say that I need to do much more.
Sometimes I wish I am a kind of 20 japanese workoholic mangaka & animators but even with a slightly split personality I never managed to become more than one physical person.

Here's a nice Screenshot ;-)

BLA BLA BLA...ish... ahh my brain hurts like a bread filled with chillies!

BUUURRRPPHHHHH...AHHHHHH... yeah it's over.

SILLY BILLY - Textured

Ufffffhhhhh... its done!

Silly Billy has all the textures on it and I even got his eyes glowing as I wanted and without rendere intensiv attenuated lights in his eyballs but symply the 3dMax VideoPost function (thx Andy)

...oh, but I see right now that I forgot the lantern tip... bah... Tomorrow is unfortunately Background Day - so I don't work on the characters...

UVW - pelt it off the fish

Here is the unwrapped fish.

As so often the fish was much easier. I should have started with him.

For the end of the lantern I used a circular projected map the rest is again all pelt mapped. It was somehow the easyest to do.

I tried to paint it in the computer room but lately the maschine I'm working on has the tendency to not work propperly after 2pm... I basically wasted nearly two hours by restarting and breaking down again - but hey - I finally finished that SODUKU (or how they are called) it the piece of newspaper that lies in the pile of paper next to my computer...

SILLY BILLY - he swims!!

OK, it took a bit of time but the computer was so merciefull to render out my desired jpegs so I could gather them together in AfterEffects. I am quite happy...there are still some problems but you don't see them in this rendering in this movements ;-)

First I wanted to render it with a skylight, because it looks so nice but then I decided to add Omnis without shadows and a Arealight with a 4096 shadowmap to make the shadow on the floor. It looks still petty good... and is fast (8sec per frame)

SILLY BILLY - ENVELOPES

The Rig for the fish was surpisingly easy to do compared with the cat. No legs,no shoulder, no other funny stuff just a head with some fins and tailish things.

It took only a day for all the bones, IKs, helper objects control shapes and the parameter wiring - hahahappy!

OK, it needs still some work on the envelopes but hey I am not a wizzard or something like this and I need to sleep, to eat and sometimes my body should move its muscles to not loose all abilities of movement.
But sooner or later I will create my own 3d body in 3dMax or Maya - the GOD edition of course - then I'll load my mind in to the new body and done. HAHAHA - I already mentioned that I gradually develop a nice little lunacy - Oh I like it very much!!! The world is great yeahhh! Screeny screeny boom boom ;-)

SILLY BILLY RIG

Today is "Rigging the Fish"-Day YUPPHHHIEEE!!!

It goes on quite well but my attempt to finish it today will fail. Damn, damn... I am still to slow!

But I always say to some unspeciefied part in my mind: "Hey YOU! Don't panic. Stay calm and just go on"

So far the newest development in my project.

Sillybilly - the final mesh

Her is the slightly modified final mesh for SillyBilly.

I added little floating eyeballs and made the lantern more bony

creating the fish - part 2

This is I suppose the final body for my fish - SillyBilly



He looks much sillier without teeth in the upper jaw. I just added more details like the backfin, a small bellyfin, the lantern and the barb.

I haven't decided yet if I should first finish the cat's body or rigging the fish...
May be modelling the cat is better as I am right now in the flow.

creating the fish - part 1

So far the modeling of SillyBilly, one character for my short.
The fin on the back is still missing and maybe I ad some teeth in the upper jaw.

It's all made in 3dsMax, but I really wanna try Zbrush to do some refinement...
Who will count the faces...la la la...
( isn't there somewhere under the building in the caves a renderfarm hidden?)

Script Draft02

INT.introduction.STUDENTS ROOM.AFTERNOON

A human being (me) sits at his desk working. The camera slips into his his head either through a ear, the nose or an eye.

CGi.the buzzcat.INSIDE THE HEAD

Wide shots of the landscape to introduce the plot.

Close of the cats weaving paws and a purring sound over two ends of synapses. He is stimulating them to create thoughts. Small electric jolts emit from the synapses back to the cat who is aware of its danger.

The cat jumps around, is excited and astonished about the processes going on in the brain. He likes his work. Several close shots of the cat. (head, tail, blinking eyes a.s.o.)

INT.Cat in the eye.STUDENTS ROOM.AFTERNOON

black

the eyelid opens

In a very close shot of an eye the cat can be seen in the reflection of a pupil.

(later on ev. an other shot with fish and cat in comic like chase with two eyes)

the eyelid closes

black

CGi.the problem.INSIDE THE HEAD

Suddenly something goes wrong. The firing of the synapses reduces dramatically so the former electric storm is down to a minimum. The Audience gets glimpses of parts of SillyBillyFish who turns synapses of with his lantern. The sound changes to a threatening humming combined with the sound of electronic power switched off.

The Buzzcat gets irritated and sets up to locate the source of this incident.

INT.knock out.STUDENTS ROOM.AFTERNOON

A daized and confused person still sitting on a chair in front of a laptop slightly swinging from one side to an other. It isn't capable of doing anything.

CGi.the hunt.INSIDE THE HEAD

(short fast moving takes. Those of the cat bright and shiny and those of the fish dark and threatening)

The Buzzcat hunts the fish of whom only glimpses can be seen. The two of them are never in the same picture. As the hunt goes on they pass a dark tunnel down into the deeper areas of the brain.

(find metaphor for deeper brain to help visualising)

The fish slips with a deep blowwwwph soung through a barrier in to his lair. The cat stops worried in front of the barrier.

CGI.the metaphysical cat.INSIDE THE HEAD

The buzzcat overthrows (transcends) the barrier by moving his paws and rotating like a twister, so he becomes after the whirling a transparent cat that reflects the rainbowcolors. Like this the cat can slip through the mental cellular wall.

A black wall remains, or alternatively the camera folows the cat through the barrier.

CGI.the lair of sillybilly.INSIDE THE HEAD

Now the Buzzcat is inside the hiding place of SillyBilly. For the first time the fish can be seen in total. He is floating in the space.

(first a close up of the fish, then the camera moves backwards tho show the cat and the fish on opposite sides of the picture)

The cat growls, hisses and spits at the fish. The fish answers with a deep tone that sounds chuntering, droning and humming. Both of them move in the beginning only slightly but more and more faster while the sound gains volume and around the cat buzzing starts.

Finally the fish gets thrown (ev. without being touched) between two synapses endings and stays stocked there.

The Buzzcat approaches while gesticulating with its paws and grinning madly. The synapses enlighten and fire a thought so that the fish explodes into thousands of pieces.

int.the end.STUDENTS ROOM.night

The human being awakes from his paralysed state, shakes his head and blows his nose. The remainings of the fish are flushed out of the brain. The Buzzcat glimpses triumphantly up in one eye.

Script Draft 01

Parts Of My Brain

Story Outline

Draft 1

14/2/08

thomASKunz

STUDENTS ROOM 1

(live action footage)

A human being (me) sits at his desk working. The camera slips into his his head either through a ear, the nose or an eye.

INSIDE THE HEAD 1

(CGI 3D footage)

Just inside the skull the buzzcat is active. Actually the cat is visible through the eyes of the human being from the outside world but not every time and only if he wants to.

Buzzcat is excited and astonished about the proccesses going on in the brain even though he lives there since he started living. It's good never to lose the ability to get astonished. So as more active the brain is and as more the synapsis are fireing/ buzzing because of the thoughts passing as more the cat likes the landscape or should it be called brainscape ;-)

INSIDE THE HEAD 2

(CGI 3D footage)

Suddenly something goes wrong. The fireing of the synapsis reduces dramatically so the former electric storm is reduced to a minimum. Only occasionally a flash lighting up. The Buzzcat decides to set up to locate the source of this incident.

STUDENTS ROOM 2

(live action footage)

A daized and confused person still sitting on a chair in front of a Laptop slightly swinging from one side to an other. It isn't capable to do anything.

INSIDE THE HEAD 3

(CGI 3D footage)

The Buzzcat is wandering around still in search of the problems source. Where ever he crosses the synapses fire a little bit because of the cats stimulation. As the cat passes a dark tunnel downwards to the inner regions he finds himself near the deeply hidden areas of the subconscious mind. Actually this isn't a physically locatable region, it lies in the metaphysical parts of the brain. As the Buzzcat isn't a physical cat either he can reach every region imaginable. Here the incident of the lower synapsis activity seems to has it's source because as the cat approaches the region no fireing at all starts.

INSIDE THE HEAD 4

(CGI 3D footage)

The Buzzcat slips through the cellular wall and faces a quite huge latern fish who claims to be SillyBilly and has arrived just some years ago as a little grain of some seed. The fish prefers a low level of brain activity and tries to catch with his forehead latern precious thoughts to destroy and devour them.

A confrontation between them is inevitable.

INSIDE THE HEAD 5

(CGI 3D footage)

The Buzzcat and SillyBilly fight against each other. In the end of the fight the fish is thrown away and gets stuck between two ends of some synapses. As they fire for a new thought, the fish explodes in to thousands of pieces.

STUDENTS ROOM 3

(live action footage)

The human being awakes from his stand down status, shakes his head and blows his nose. The remainings of the fish are flushed out of the brain and the subconscious mind is free at last.

a bit more story

I just phantasized around my two characters.

So I saw the Buzzcat as somekind of an aktive part of my consciousness that dwells deeper in my mind. He passes a synaptical sourrounding where thoughts as flashes are transmitted by neurotransmitters from one end of a synapsis to an other. As he went on in to the innerst there can not be found boundaries between the phisical brain that can be seen by cutting open a skull or the mind of thoughts or the subconscious mind that has no physical location.
The Buzzcat is kind of physical but also metaphysical so he can slip in to any real or imagined surrrounding he wants to.


The picture is located in the subconscious mind of me where the Buzzcat finally mets a fish called SillyBilly. At first it looks like a nice little fish to lock at and to gesture with (he doesn't intend to eat the fish) but then it turns out that the fish is a mind torturing monster, that should be eliminated. After a short fight the SillyBilly gets thrown between two ends of synapses where he got stuck. As they flash up for the next thought, he explodes in the electrical energie.

I really wounder how it would feel in my brain if I could kill this bloody fish!

SILLYbilly 1

A possible sidekick (or shouldn't it be a sideclick - as we are digital now ;-)) to the BUZZcat could SILLYbilly be. He is a latern fish from the deepest regions of the sea or to keep up the image where the cat comes from - my inner brain - then that would mean SILLYbilly floats in the subconscious mind of mine.

How he meets the BUZZcat and what their relationship is like I acctually don't know yet. But as they are both living beeings in my mind, their story can't take place without my notification!
I will spy on them and document the way they live to be able to try to tell their story to other poeple outside of my mind.