Slugsy

I forgot to put this up. We made this a week or two back in one of our seminars. Our task was to create an animated cartoon worm much like the one from the BBC3 idents.
Here is what the BBC3 worms look like, funny little guys:



So this is what I came up with. I tried to animate him a bit, but unfortunately I just couldn't resist killing him at the end :( oh well. I gave him a good run:



I did this using 3D studio max again, I’m starting to become more and more familiar with it the more I use it. I started off with a cylinder and worked from there adding and carving his shape.
I then added a modifier called "turbosmooth" which makes him look all nice and round. I then had to use a modifier called "morpher" which I messed up at first but eventually got the hang of. What you can't see in the below picture is the several copies of the worm which contributed towards the movement. I hid them all for when I rendered the piece. Each one was altered so I could change the original and animate him with greater speed and accuracy. It basically meant that I didn’t have to move every little vertex point! So I was very happy to have learnt that from the seminar.


Anywho, must be getting on with my actual avatar. Laters.