I hope I'm uploading this right

Hmm looking back at this I should add some motion blur.

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Gift for my buddy Doobzurz.

Wanted to make something fast that wasn't my thesis. Character is from his pokemon webcomic, Snowbound. (http://doobzerz.deviantart.com/ )

4 hours 35 minutes to model, rig, animate, and add effects. Recorded a time lapse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFpsO8Jnkoo

Modeling S: 14 minutes

Rigging (5 bones + dummy + eyeball) : 23 minutes

Modeling Spade: 50 minutes

Expression morpher: 8 minutes

Character animation: 38 minutes

Background, tweaking, lights: 36:29

Fucking around with particle effects I ended up not using (not shown in time lapse) 26:52

Spade shooting animation: 44:55

New background, material animation, fine tuning: 27 minutes

Sparkle effect: 23:38

See if you can spot the easter eggs in the time lapse (list on Youtube)

3D Studio Max and Photoshop

2010