Weekend Update

One week after this blog was started and already there's more things happening with the film!

Marvin

With this film being a thesis project with limited resources, we have to pick and choose which technical hurdles to tackle straight on and which to find other solutions. Thankfully one of these issues has already been solved! Animator Josh Burton has graciously allowed us to use his wonderful Morpheus rig in the film. For those of you not familiar with Morpheus, its an awesome rig with terrific skinning and facial controls as well as the option to fully customize the physical appearance of the character. With this permission, it looks like Morpheus will be playing the part of Marvin!

Boris the Hamster

Another aspect of the film that looks to be an interesting challenge is Boris, the hamster. After speaking with a couple of my colleagues, it looks like we will definitely find a way to get him modeled and possibly even textured to have fur! It may not sound like much to some, but believe you me, it really is exciting! Of course, after modeling we still need to get him rigged...

Last but not least, we have finally started storyboarding for the film! Granted, there are only a few frames done but it is definitely progress and more than we had a week ago. Once there is a bit more of them, I'll make sure there's a smattering of them here on the blog. 

All in all, things are looking good and hopefully things only get better from here!