I don't have the hero roach. Can you email it to me? I'm finishing my roach today, and will email it to you. Check your email.

You have the club files, right? Maybe you should start on the bar scene w/ your girl model. If you have our hero model too, you could do that. Just the girl sitting at the bar, maybe drinking or something...the hero walks into frame and goes up to her...they talk....then they leave.

updated roach

I finished my new roach, and I gave her a skeleton. How should we split up the scenes?

Zach's Files

Bar Revision

To import objects, just append them (like you would a material). If they don't show up, look in the other layers of your file.

Bar

I modeled this based on the club scene that Zack showed me and Katie's Motel. I would love to have a copy of that club scene, Zack, so if you could post a link to where you got it or post the image (if you can). Then I can try to make the bar look like it's part of that picture or something... Of course, the shapes and colors are always subject to change based on the background image that we decide to use if we don't end up using that one that you showed me. I still need to add bar stools and accessories (bottles, glasses, etc.); I was just having some trouble with my internet connection when I was working on this. Just wanted to show yall what I had in mind...

Storyboard

Okay here's the storyboard I drew up. It's not perfect as we still have some fine tuning and a few different ideas about what all's going to happen, but basically as I understand, start out showing a disco ball, then zoom out to the dance floor where cockroaches are dancing. Then there's a girl roach sitting at the bar. One cockroach comes and tries to hit on her, but then the girl's boyfriend comes over and I believe they're going to fight. Then at the end the camera zooms out to show that they're actually in a roach motel. Again subject to change but that's the jist. Depending on how long it takes, we might stop it in the middle for mid term then finish it for the final project.

PS Click on the picture to see the fill sized version

Roach Motel Bling!

Hey guys, I've been tweaking with the roach motel, what do you think? xD It's got fancy lights and stuff and a red carpet!!

Storyboard

Hey guys,

I just received an email from our teacher asking if we can post a storyboard on the blog. Can one of you post yours? (Maybe with some notes describing what exactly is going on)

Thanks!

p.s. He said our models look good! :)

Roach Motel

Zach's Roach

Shiny Disco Ball

Here's a disco ball I made tonight...these new materials are awesome! The material I used for the ball is called Shiny, and its in another free material pack on the blender downloads page...I made my own material for the black rope. I dragged a huge cube around the ball, lights, and camera...and that's what the black background is. So we can put stuff inside a cube, but I guess you need a light on the walls to show any background stuff.

Pimpin roach

Hey! Here's my dude lol. I still dont know who's doin the boyfriend and who's doing the horning in guy me or Zach lol.. I was playin with the furry stuff in the particles menu it's pretty fun xD

lamp for bar

i found this great bar light on one of the model download sites. i thought it would look really good if we have a bar in our animation.

updated lady roach

so i've been working on this for the past few days. tell me what you think.

roach back

how to save file as jpeg and post it

hey again. so i figured it out. it's really easy, i'm sure you guys are way ahead of me on this one, but if not, you just go to file-save image, and it will save as a jpeg.

here's my lady roach. tell me what you think. Are the boobs a little too much, lol? i think it looks hilarious.

so what do you guys think about doing a storyboard? I'm pretty sure we have to turn one in or present it to the class, so maybe we should think about getting together sometime to do it.

Also, it would be nice if you guys could post your roaches, too, so that we can all have a frame of reference to work with. Just a thought...

can't come to class today

hey guys,

sorry, but i can't come to class today. i pulled a muscle in my shoulder and can hardly move. i did make a roach, though, and i will post it as soon as i figure out how.

Member roles

Each team shall clearly define the roles and responsibilities of each team member. As a suggestion, a team should define the following roles:

• Designer. Designer shall lead the effort to develop the storyline, define characters, write a short script, and pitch the story to me and the class.
  
• Modelers and animators. Modelers and animators shall create 3D models and animation sequences.
  
• Rendering lead. Rendering lead shall be in charge of rendering images or coordinating the rendering effort if the rendering job is distributed among team members.
  
• Webmaster. Each team is required to maintain a Web page for their project.
  
• Possibly, a team leader.

I just wanted to post these so we can start thinking about who does what. I guess I'll be the Webmaster since I did this blog, and I definitely want to have a part with the modeling and animation process, but after getting to know you guys and seeing your drawings, I feel like yall would be a lot better at story and character development. Don't get me wrong, I really want to help as much as possible, but I think I'd be better at organizing things and maintaining the website. I do think we should all do a little bit of everything, and then one person can kind of be "in charge" for each role. Let me know what you guys want to do...

Changing Settings

There should be a link in the top right corner of the blog that says "Customize," and that's how you change the settings. If you don't see the link, then I guess I'm the only one who can change the settings. If you want to add a website link to either of the link lists, just post the link and then I'll add it. Or if there's anything else, just let me know.

BTW, I read the project requirements, and turns out, we're actually required to maintain a website! LOL that's already taken care of.

Hey!

Hey! It's Katie. I couldn't find the settings you were talking about, so it's probably an admin thing ^^ My last name's Carlberg. The blog looks great I can tell it'll be really useful.

-Katie

Welcome to our blog!

Hey guys!

I hope that yall figured everything out ok... Feel free to change any of the settings. If you need help, just ask me. I am fairly new to blogging, but it's pretty easy to navigate through the settings once you sign in. I'm not sure if you guys will be able to since i'm the admin, but if you can't then i'll give you my password. I don't know either of your last names, so either edit them into the blog subtitle by going to SETTINGS-BASIC-DESCRIPTIONS, or if you can't, just let me know and I'll put them in for you.