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Hey! Sorry for the absence!
It's time to tell what is going on =/)
First of all now I'm a student of animation school. I am studying traditional 2d animation and now at home I have the epic chaos of paper and pencils.
Over the past year I have learned that before school I know about animation nothing. I would be glad to show you some animations, but my assignments are still in progress. It's a really long process!

Summer is vacation time in school so I had the opportunity and time to study 3d animation on CGTarian. There are contests and the winner gets a free course. Unexpectedly I was chosen as a winner and now I'm studying online course Physics of Animation. It has recently begun but I think I can already say that it's superbly!It sounds like an advertisement but I'm just really admire it and I would like to tell more about this course, but probably later.


Here is my animation for the competition. Theme is "super power"

And one more animation from a week of intensive course of Gobelins in Moscow.
Yoshimichi Tamura was our mentor, he is soo :333.. nice mentor I mean, he-he.

Study acting from Margarita Sheshukova on Vimeo.

Also lately I spend a lot of time in ZBrush. I finally figured out how it works and this interface... customizable mmm. I can spend hours just placing buttons :}
Here are some wips.


Well, some girl, as usual. I find that Zbrush is the best way to practice anatomy. I highly recommend, it is great development for skills

Gandalf! I dream of Gandalf figure on my desk, so I'm working on it.


Some sketches and wips. They aren't new, but I'll just put them here.
I have to say I have accumulated a bunch of unfinished illustrations, but my attention was directed to the study of animation, so I really don't draw in this period much.


One last important thing I have a Tumblr now! It was in test mode for a long time, but now I'm sure I would use it. So welcome!
I have 2 blogs now and I love both of these places, so I decided that the tumblr is for frequent short updates and the blogspot for more substantive monthly posts (probably at the end of each month). I think it will work quite well for me.

argh, I so much want to be active in internet again, hope I can, I will try!
And thank you guys for your support and for every message that I received, it means a lot for me.
See you later!

Did I say that I hate the Russian education system?
A few days ago I learned that my animation is not an important thing -.-, much more important to write a note on 60 pages. And another awful thing that the committee doesn't understand anything in the animations and films. They are economists, lol. This is all because of my institute was attached to the Higher School of Economics and now we are surrounded by economists.

Anyway, my work continues.
This weekend I spent in searching for a rig and i chose the "FREE RIG&SETUP AUTO v2.2". i didn't test it much but looks like it something that works really good.

I think textures are done. Sometimes I forget that the boy is bald, haha. I hope I will do his hair soon.


I started to work on the monster. Here a rough zbrush model. I still have much work on it.

I decided to make textures in a painting style. Boots and eyes are not finished I just added some base colors. That is why it looks so rough.

back to texturing.

So, after three weeks of hard work, I got this. It is doesn't look like the previous concept, but I think it works better.
Clothing so difficult for modeling! I just remodeled it a million times, thank God I have topogan, it makes the retopology easier.


I'm going to simplify the whole work, because I totally don't have time and I want to try 2d render like this

Also, I think the monster will look different, sadly I do not have time for all those leaves =(.

Quick update!
zbrush+topogun+maya.
not a good mesh over the lip, but it's enough, maybe I'll fix it later.

Also, the clothes will be done soon!

finished test

I finally rendered it and assembled it in eyeon fusion. I can't say that i like how it turned out but it enough for test i think.  ...and thanks to vimeo for killing video quality -.-

Just a test of hair from Mar-ka on Vimeo.

Testing

   I'm trying to learn how to work with dynamics, blendshapes, light and render in Maya, so here a viewport picture from the scene, which I created to practice all these things.

   The thing that bothered me the most is the simulation of the hair. Hair in Maya pretty good and realistic, but when you want to add objects to the collision, it does not work. Hair are falling through objects and no matter what the settings are set. Maybe I'll have to look for plugins.
   Anyway it is at the stage of rendering now, not sure it will out fine, it is just a test, although, well, we'll see.

   Hi! I finally found time to post some things!
   I created a PSD file for people who asked me about it, I hope this will answer most of your questions.
I uploaded it in documents of gmail so you need a Google account to download the file

link to download

The next thing is the wip of a new illustration. =D

Some things from the imagination.