kazuna:
Better Late than Never....

At least I have an axe too...somethang conjure thunder with.

Imagine an intergalactic fight amongst all this gods here....

Before tirigbosa's god would strike my god with his spiked club of destruction, Kaz Shango will swerve and coalesce charged particles to a hateful point and smash that club to smithereens.

alex's will surmon inner cosmic consciousness and bend KAzx Shango's hateful strike into a plasma ball.

OKX's Shango's shield will turn into a Lion with an iron skin, one that no metal wrought by any god can break (except if that god eats indomie )

This Axe can destroy anything, please keep it safe and away from children and terrorist

Princealex1:
Am getting bored,stressed and tired of rigging this character,three weeks and counting


kazuna please take a look @the screengrab and see if you have any idea whats the cause of that line and what i can do to correct it,its deforming the leg dont know why i have checked the parenting and weight paint

Have being following trend back stage, lol, just an idea though, if I understand d problem of ur rig properly, in 3D maxs, its corrected by adjusting the envelop of ur rig at the location the character didn't deform properly, that's after adding the skin modifier and some aspect don't deform properly, don't know if blender has envelop after skinning a rigged character, if it does, try and adjust d envelop @ d location the character didn't deform properly and see if there's any improvement

I have a little request and I hope am not going off trend, I would request we create a bbm channel or Whatsapp group. At least we can start from there to create. Community of Nigerian CG artist.

Am still a novice o and the only human model have created is the one I learnt with, I use 3D max but I hope to learn maya later. I sincerely wish to participant in this challenge as it will still brush me up. Below is d only model have done

Bravo, you guys rock, men I think I need to sit down and be mentored by one of you, would have love to join the challenge but electricity is presently my best friend.
Following trend

Truman155:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLCacvw2Bc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
i made this pls i need constructive criticism

My opinion, the stroke size you use for the nose and mouth of both character is too bold, and also I notice the eyes were not blinking, there should be some few blinks especially before a head turn and eye ball changing direction, also the lip sync for the voice wasn't accurate with the spoken words,
Nice and funny concert in general but na our 1st lady be that o

chubbyswit:
lol i forgot we have chatted via my thread, hope you have started learning harmony

Not yet, have not being animating lately but hopefully soon I would continue and also learn harmony

chubbyswit:
I'm currently in Enugu and use 3Dmax and Maya, my contact is on my profile.

Lol, You forgot to add I also use toon boom harmony,
I would contact you later today

Oahray:
seriously? Someone expresses an opinion and explains why he holds that opinion and you start insulting him? That's insecurity speaking. You need to stop feeling threatened. Not every objection is a battle declaration.

Adios.

I also expressed an opinion with reasons so am surprise you feel insulted...

Oahray:
money? It's all about money? This is why Nigerians are mostly mediocre in nearly every field of art and science. Once a person can draw two lines next to each other, he starts looking for who would pay him, instead of trying to get better at what he does.

A novice is a novice whether he scales his pics or not. That a person cannot accurately draw what he sees shows there are some principles of art that he isn't yet familiar with. Why pretend? Focus on development and money would follow, true talent never hides.

A young lady uploaded a pics and like every other artist needs to be criticized to improve, I gave my criticism which I assume the artist told note of my view, Instead of finding issues in my view, your life would be a lot better if you give your artistic view to the artist lady (that's if U have any artistic view self) rather than staging oral misdirected words toward me...go buy some sense @ Olx. Scaling a drawing doesn't mean you can't draw, scaling a drawing doesn't mean you need to scale all drawings you practice with, there are many technique in drawing which I suppose you don't apply because U are Jack oahray... So continue digging my comment soon you would discover oil wells in them

Oahray:
scaling pics is a lazy way to learn

Maybe but either way, the result is what matters...if a client gives U a job and you decide to produce a work that shows you are a novice, the client won't care you are learning, they would simple start looking for another artist unless they just want to work with you...

Donald3d:
In Lagos , i use 3dsmax

Sorry boss. The location I intended is Benin, delta, Anambra and Enugu. I didn't construct my message well, I was only saying Lagos, Abuja and PH have more CG artist, was looking for those that reside in the southern part of the country apart from PH.
I did saw a contact on your profile, I would contact you though

Donald3d:

Image Credit : Anisiuba Uche

Oga erad how far na ,Make our guys learn abeg
Prof800 you dey there ?

Nice article Donald, I must ask, are you a CG artist

otosa:
That's what some people do not know, rending is another course in 3d animation and for u to understand it clearly it will take u good six months of practise b4 understand but due to the electricity challenge we are having in Nigeria the best why to render is rending in sequences or per frame and most to in camera for any animating project. And the best software to use is Renderman interm of high speed.

You are right, rendering is a course in 3D stuff, electricity is a challenge in Nigeria and system with a high processor and graphic card memory is very much necessary But I think the choice of a render engine to use depends on the project being done

I do have a proposal for any CG artist that can use any of 3D maxs, Maya, blender and cinema 4D that reside within this locations. Lagos, Abuja and maybe Port harcourt have a major dense count of CG artist in Nigeria...I would love to know if there exist any CG Artist within those four states I mentioned for networking purpose

I rate you 9/10 for playing with your photoshop tools,
For design concept, if its a design for a cover picture for a war movie, then I could rate you 7/10.
For the design itself, I don't know what score to add as I need to understand the intention of the artist that did the work.
All in all, your photoshop knowledge is good

You are talented but still need to work harder, am guessing the drawing was done with a pencil and painted with pastel (crayon)... Your combination of colours is good but I think you still need to work on your lighting direction to give it a realistic and 3D viiew. also try scaling the picture you want to draw before drawing them, it would give U an advantage of a little perfection,

Nice work and keep it up

mesheikh:
Omo see drawing... pls I seriously wanto learn hw to draw bt dont knw hw to go abt it

Everyone can draw, just that some people are better @ it than others, all in all, my advice is if you want to learn how to draw, buy a sketch pad, a pencil and eraser, then start drawing any picture you can get hold of, don't mind how awful it would look, if you really had interest in drawing, with time and constant practice you would get better, also make friends with people who are good (talented) with visual art and see how they imagine things before bring it into reality through drawing. Hope that help

Hiqhscore:




When army form comes awt again gwan collect, then go to the field and comman give us true info.
And incase u dnt knw erybody is a suspect until wen screened den dey confirm the innocent ones

Hmmm, you're trying to be sarcastic and a little bit right on everyone being a suspect including you, I don't know what country you reside in but if you are not in a Nigeria you should know that whenever a Nigerian security officer calls you a suspect, there is no proving you otherwise by what so ever lawyer unless you have some persons in authority to save your head Or you got money to bail out...

I don't trust information from our security operatives, there's no concrete evidence yet to confirm their claim that those are terrorist, for all we know, they might have force those random folks to dance to their statement, just saying though cause we all know how our security operative behave

lol, everything in Nigeria is just left hand left hand, i just visited the site and this is what I saw(pics below), apparently, according to the site, today is 4th october and not 7th october
The site admin are either behind time or are in the future...

chubbyswit:
. I like your zeal, follow me to be updated, maybe we can team up later

Will follow suit, and I look forward to that

chubbyswit:
I will suggest you go with toon boom harmony, its the standard for most major studios plus you can import 3D assets into the software and combine 2d and 3d animation just like you asked. maybe I will do a tutorial on that in the future. don't know much about flash but I don't think you can import 3d assets into it. I guess the environment of your scene is 3d?

I would check out toon boom harmony to master the environment, the scene I uploaded is a 2d scene, was done with Adobe flash Pro and Adobe Photoshop, about combining the scene, am working toward creating both a 2d and 3d cartoon and combining them both in a demo ... I hope to learn from your future tutorial on toon boom harmony

kazuna:
when u were in max, ur lighting was better. (ofcourse, i am a Maya hater ) or download iray renderer for maya.

Secondly, pay more attention to your anatomy. You have a lotta potential. I like seeing character Modellers. Its never easy to venture into xtr designing.

Do you Rig?

Good criticism, every artist needs an honest criticism to grow to his zenith, olaakinyinka is good @ modelling, so modelling a character with good anatomy will show case him better... Am new to 3dmax but not that new sha... The biggest challenge I have now is facial rig, am that lazy that I don't want to use morph target, I just prefer CAT rig cos its faster and achieve same result with bone rigging that's y I need xray cat plugin...

Chubbyswit, I have toon boom software on my laptop though I don't know how the software works, I also have Adobe Flash professional and use it very well but I don't know which of the software is more better for 2d animation, here is an image of a scene of a comedy demo am working on, I would have finished it but I want to combine 2D and 3D animation in same demo, will publish when am through with the demo

Bifwoli:


Its not only unbelievable but its also practically impossible.The guy has to be aroused and erect and thats one thing the ladies cannot force to happen.

I even find it hard to believe the story of Lot in the Bible -Genesis 19:30-38 how they got their father drunk and he fell asleep then the older went and lay with him.Impossible cuz his manhood can't function like that.

Most cases, a man's manhood is erect when asleep, so the story of Lot in the bible isn't an exception, am guessing your sex is
male (an adolescent probably).

jon1:
There are young,brilliant entrepreneurs and developers in Kenya. Some of them have been featured on CNN for developing grassroot relative ideas and technological enhancements. Zuckerberg himself hailed Kenya as world leader in mobile money,that's huge.
The success of the Kenyans in payment options development and deployment has a lot to do with government and private sector support. You build a Zinox computers and Nigerians will tell you it's inferior to HP and Dell without trying it but they'll buy an Acer or Huawei built by Asians. Innoson vehicles are cheap imitations of foreign cars,Nigerians will tell you. Government doesn't even buy it.
There are young and enterprising Zuckerbergs in Nigeria but they can't go the whole Nine yards alone. Infrastructural support is key. If Nigeria starts now Zuckerbergs next visit might be to come "learn" and not to give "alms".

Kenya are maybe world leaders in mobile money yet 9ja scam artist top the list in western union money transfer with no mobile device, how is that for starters

olaakinyinka:
no, i only use mental ray for now although tryin to use rederman

boss mental ray is for rendering na

chubbyswit:
more

nice work bro, you are good at what you do, keep it up

kazuna:


coming together, coming together, i have been advocating that for a long time. Its our only strength.

By the way Iyke, check out BonesPro rigging tools, you will never regret it...and they have free tutorial collections.

Thats bro, would check it out... we must come together to do something wonderful

on your topic of discussion, I agree with all you've said and would like to add my opinion, from my point of view... Animation industy is still quite low in Nigeria, most animators are self taught and a few were taught in some computer institute, Animation is quite a serious business in developed countries and its also a degree course in some universities abroad.For animators to make good money in Nigeria, just as you've said money need to be invested in it and also animators must come together to create something wonderful... working as individual will take way too long to achieve something and the work will probably not be perfect because it wont be criticise by professional before its launched, also, the animation industry need other fields to foster, it needs good script writers, sound composers, investors/sponsors, producers, studios, voice actors ...etc, all this will limit an individual who is working on a project alone (we can't have all as an individual), So in my opinion all the needed factors must come together and work together to make money in animation and serious money would also be spent in the production process

reidkrugger:


Do u hv any of ur jobs on youtube? U cld post d link here lets see. I use d CAT rig bcuz i want to get rlly gud animating not bcuz i like it. Custom bones wi all doz wirings n scriptings stil remains d best option for any 3d animator. Tho it might b hard to setup or take time, d result is an overkill. For facial xpressions, i dnt even know y ppl wld prefer boning to morphs. It's slower n i dnt tink they'll get d xpressions rt n even if they do, d time for dat, i dnt hv.
My days wi d cat rig is almost over. Once i create my fight animation, dats it. I just use it cuz it stores data easily n very quick to setup. Overall, it's a very gud way to begin learnin animation wi.

I haven't created a youtube account yet, I want to create about 3 demo first before I launch them on youtube, am not new in 2d animation but new in character animation in 3D though have being lying low since 3yrs now, I agree with you that custom bones rig looks best in 3d character animation but calculating those FK and IK input take way much time if you have a limited time to work on a project, the CAT plugin can achieve same result in less time since the calculation has already being done that why I prefer the CAT rig, you know how 9ja is, 3d animation is suppose to foster several areas of specialisation but here in 9ja you would to learn it all from modelling, texturing, UVW mapping, rigging to animation. am working on a short comedy demo presently with 2d/3d environment. would paste the link on Nairaland when am through with it