The Springbok Sasol Add

We have been working on the Sasol Add for two months and have gained a lot of knowledge within Zbrush, Tracking, realistic texturing and lighting in Maya. I also wrote mel scripts to assist us in the making of the environment.

My first script was a texture assignment script that automatically assign a high resolution map of 4k to foreground objects and assign low res texture to object in the background. The same script was used to assign displacement map to foreground objects and bumps to background objects.

The second script i wrote was very helpful, especially with random placement of objects on a curve, example random rocks and structure placements. First you create a object library that you want to use to generate the random object placement, and then you draw a curve on a object to give the script points to place the objects.

It was a fantastic add to work on, and also to be working with the Countries best director Keith Rose.

Mel scripts for Sasol Add.

I have recently worked on a few mel scripts to help me with big scenes and automating procedures with the Sasol springbok add. I was responsible for 3d tracking and scene setups on the Sasol Add. Here is a sneak peak of some shots.

Punchinello Animatic

Hand / Mocp Riggs

The past two years I have explored the world of rigging and wrote my own rigging scripts to make the process of rigging more time efficient. The first rig is made for hand animation and you can generate your own rig by just clicking a few buttons. the second rig is more complex and have the capabilities to blend different body parts on the rig between Mocap, FK and IK. And then Finally I wrote a user interface for that animators to make their lives a bit easier.

Projects

This is a clip of some of the projects that i have worked on the past few years, but there is much more in the pipeline. Like Mulligan, Karma, Sasol ect.

Facial Setups

Punchinello Teaser

Russell has done the animatic for the Short film "Punchinello", We are really excited about this production and we are very keen to animate this short, but there are steps to complete before we jump into the fun stuff. Here is the short teaser of Punchinello.Happy days!!!

a R&T Production

Me and my friend Russell Laing, have started our own coloboration Logo. The logo stands for "A Russell & Tiaan Film", hence the rat icon. Russell and myself are busy with writing the script and throwing some cool ideas to the mix. I busy with the animatic or storyreel at the moment. We busy seeing what works for the storyreel. Will post some previews of the animatic soon. Until then, keep on animating.

Punchinello Project in Production

Hi, my friend and I have decided to start our own short film called "Punchinello". We are really enthusiastic about this project and want to push our skills to the test. I will keep on updating as we pursue our goal. Later!!!

Face Mocap in Vicon

This is one of my first tests using vicon with facial Mocap. We used 50 markers to setup the face. With all this markers I could export the data out off vicon into a v-file format so that I could use the RAW data in My own writen scripts.

Facial Mocap

I have recently developend a Pipeline for facial mocap. I'm using my own mel scripts to manipulate and clean the mocap data. Here is a example of the setup.