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Here is my final animation of Baxter’s alter ego which is his dog form moving around I made him jump by using squash and stretch after his jump he loses his footing and tries to regains his footing.  I used staging and I feel like my character is very appealing. I used follow through from once he jumps and loses his footing and tries to hold himself together 

Overall I had so much fun making my blender model even though I struggled I got there in the end my plan is to continue working on blender and maya during the summer to perfect my skills 

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Here is some of my progression from the start to finish

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Refences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qV5pdO_X8U

I watched a YouTube video and went through my camera roll to find pictures of my dog jumping to give me a better idea with the movement

I took a video of my dog sitting and doing a down movement to get a even better idea on how dogs move

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Rigging and movement

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ENVIRONMENT

Here is the environment I built for the animation I made 3 tree’s and added 3 trees from blendswap to make it seem more forest like I also added the flowers. I also made bushes with the mesh’s from blender and used textures . I also used textures for the ground I used a forest floor texture and for the tree leaves I used a moss texture because the leaf textures didn’t look as good. 

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Final dog build

This is my final dog build I added the hair tool onto him and played around with the roughness and how long it looked at the end I was very happy with my final result 

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I had many tries

I had many tries with building Baxter’s dog model I did struggle with blender and building his model, I tried many different ways of building him I made a whole model then I later on found out it wouldn’t work because it was best to make a model with keeping the squares as squares because it would be better to render and rig. 

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Dogs in Animation

There have been many dogs in animation over the years, Mostly 2d dogs who have had some hit movies for example ‘ Lady and the Tramp’ and ‘ Balto’ and not as much as 3d I tried to look at many examples and these are some of the dogs I found I took a lot of inspiration for my 3d dog model.

I love how unique how all the dogs look, They all have different styles and all look so different from the average dog but still resemble a dog.

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Here I played around on maya trying to make a 3d model head I had many tries but finally started to understood it and learned most of the controls of maya 

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Baxter as a dog !!

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Here I drew some concept art of Baxter running away from a crazy little dog all over him, Here I coloured him in grey but later decided to stick with the little fluffy white dog theme

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Term 2 3D

for term 2 we had to build a 3d model of our characters alter ego and my characters alter ego is the little white dog he turns into because he completely changes personality which he tries really hard to fight 

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For my animation I used squash and stretch when he smokes

My character is appealing

I used pose to pose with his hands

And staging

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my animation!! here i have baxter smoking and he see’s a ball and the dog jumps out of him

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Story borad I planned out everything I was going to do and re created it

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late breakfast

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