Episode 4, Part 1, has been released at Pivisuals.com.  Part 2 is already over halfway finished, so the rest of the episode will be available in the near future.

Check out the episode at this link:  http://www.pivisuals.com/univstate/episodes/ep4-pt1.php

Wow, my last post was before Christmas! Shame on me!

The holidays were crazy busy for me. Aside from the usual hustle and bustle of Christmas and New Years, there have been a lot of friends visiting from out of town which demanded a lot of free time (although I’ve been having a lot of fun). Then, last week, I came down with a bad cold, which has knocked me out for a while. But I’m on the up-swing, so hopefully in a few days I’ll be back to 100%.

In the little spare time afforded to me, I have started to step up and take a more active role in the pre-production of the next episode of University State. Once production starts (sometime within the next week or two), I expect to take on a much greater share of that, as well. Aside from helping create and document the formal pipeline that will be used, I’ve been working on a new character model for the episode. You’ll get to see it once the episode is released (what a teaser, since the release isn’t expected for months!), unless the creator decides to slip out a few images during the production.

Well, I finally finished my first character model, rigging and all. I originally created the character without clothes, weight-mapped her, and rigged her in Layout. I spent this past week reworking the model to include clothes. I’ll have a finished image or sequence out very soon.

In the meantime, I’ll be working on a new model that will get used in the next episode of University State (the fourth – the third is finishing up post-production this week). I’m hoping that this model will go much faster than the first, now that I have the experience of making a model plus I can use my first model as a basis for creating the second one.

Check out the latest additions to Pi Visuals. An entirely new section was added for a new animation series, University State. Two episodes are already up and available to watch for free!

I helped a little with the writing of the episodes, did some voice work, and aided with the production here and there. There will be more to come (episode 3 is in production), so keep checking back at Pi Visuals for more!