Thursday, August 2, 2007
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.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Mel scripts for Sasol Add.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
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.
Friday, April 20, 2007
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.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Punchinello Project in Production
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Facial Mocap
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