H. Chris Brown FMX Classes Blog

I completed the brass knuckles, it took two attempts at printing and about a 3 hour wait time for the print to complete. It wasn't too difficult to remove the stability trees and I then painted them so I could gift them to a friend. I used black for the base rings and then silver, plus this kind of glittery/shiny clear paint for whatever the pyramid things on brass knuckles are called.

 Decided to change my plans from the rings, and instead make brass knuckles. They weren't crazy difficult to model, but I did struggle to get the alignment mathematically even. Overall I'm excited to see the finished result and they were solid jump into understanding the modeling process.

 My first solo ring designs outside of the tutorials were giving me lots of struggles while trying to print. I attempted about 2-3 times and couldn't seem to get them to print.

 3D printing is something I have spent very little time with and the idea of it is very unfamiliar to me, but I do have a keen interest in learning how it works and how to operate the medium. From the reading it seems like in todays world, 3D printing is needed in many different types of fields for work and could borderline be considered more than just a massive technological advancement, potentially even a necessity if it isn't considered one already. When looking at the main applications for 3D printing, I think considering my major is animation, prototyping would make the most sense. I could see animators using 3D printing to potentially layout different characters or settings for design and perspective reasons. The craziest thing I read while going through the article is the idea of food being 3D printed. I really do not understand how that works, and I am really curious if there are any effects in regards to taste. Same goes for biological printing and creating new cells, that...

 

  It won't let me upload the video, but this is my rotoscopy assignment where my friend and I created a quick song and then performed it, and then I rotoscopied over top.

 The editing took a couple hours to complete, but my final animation is finished and I am very proud/satisfied with how it turned out. I know the previous blogs were a pretty could time stamp of the process of my final, but I'll still summarize the whole thing from the start. I started off by looking at what rigs/models were free and available to work with. I wanted to create a storyboard based on what characters I could use, and I knew I wanted to challenge myself beyond just cubby. I ended up finding the Kong and Irex rigs and decided to take inspiration from the 2014 King Kong movie when Kong fights off 3 dinosaurs. This allowed me to move onto the storyboard which provided a good basis for my project, however the final animation did stray away from the original idea a little bit. The next part was building my scene which honestly ended up taking up a good 1/2-3/4 of the total time I invested into this. My previous projects like the oogway scene and the grogu scene gave me some ...