Artistic escape

Upon oversaturating my tolerance for computers, my body rebelled and dragged me out to numerous events that a normal young adult like me indulges in to replenish my reservoir of human contacts and conversations. Then the snowball effect proceeded on honing skills in arts.

What you are seeing is the result of a flash drawing game. This is a fun game I play to train my drawing skills. Basically, I sit on the second floor of Chapters with a cup of second cup café americano and proceed to draw the strangers crossing the street beneath. The game is to improve my capability to instantly recognize the most prominent features and bring it to life in the least amount of line possible. The process involves picking out an interesting target, spend 5 seconds to study the features, close my eyes and go over the feature in my mind then draw it out on paper without looking again.

A party, several interesting conversations, games and food later, I finally satisfied my appetitive for other parts of life to allow myself to continue the 3d animation project. So far, 3 hours of work resulted in 5 seconds of animation. This is a snapshot of one of the poses between movements. Please note that the model is naked so use your own discretion. I took a shot from the back in case any of you accidently clicked on it at an inappropriate time. As much as I’d like to add clothing and hair to the model, they simply slow down the total design time too much at this point as the additional physics and particle rendering will triple the cpu time required. 1 frame = 5 min right now… I need a new computer.