'FINGER LICKING GOOD' 

a short film by Howard Sly (WIP)

A short film designed to demonstrate production skills developed working within a commercials environment. From the initial concept though to final output. Demonstrating skills in design, modeling, rigging, animation, texturing, lighting and rendering including the integration of live action and CG. All bundled together in an original portfolio piece.

skeleton muscles

LowRezCage

UV's

NormalMap

 NormalMapColour
storyboard, first treatment

originally modeled the lizard in clay and cast him in resin. This is a 3D scan very kindly done by Sean Varney of CyberScan , London

QuickTime of the LR cage modeled from the scan data

These are examples of muscle system I was using developed by Julian Hodgson at Framestore-CFC. Unfortunately I had to leave the project due to work commitments for some time. When I finally returned to the project the muscle system was out of date and Julian had left for the west coast. The muscle system allowed for a shrink wrap type application of skin over the underline muscles. The wrapped skin was then deformed by the muscles. It worked brilliantly and required very little weighting. It also meant that the geometry to be wrapped over the muscles system could be a simple as a poly cylinder....very easy for UVing
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© 2007 Howard Sly