After my far too lengthy exploration of Monkton & Sarre Mills in my last two posts, I decided it was time to get back to some movie making. Assuming that when finished my Smuggler’s Leap movie is going to be of somewhere between 5 – 10 minutes duration, will it hold attention for that length of time? […]
Now we have Exciseman Gill sitting on an Arabian horse, which started white, but was changed to black simply by reducing its brightness. Our new friend the Devilish Exciseman is now sitting on the dun horse. I needed to spread his legs a bit wider than the standard pose so they did not disappear into […]
Time to move on. The next scene (the second to last in the movie) requires three men and three horses. One man and one horse are not the same as we used in the final scene we made previously. As mentioned before I am making the movie in reverse order, since the number of people & horses required […]
Smuggler Bill, he looks behind, And he sees a Dun horse come swift as the wind, And his nostrils smoke and his eyes they blaze Like a couple of lamps on a yellow post-chaise ! Every shoe he has got Appears red-hot! And sparks round his ears snap, crackle, and play, And his tail cocks […]
In this post I will describe how I got Bill to ride his horse through the wood as can be seen on YouTube by clicking on the link in my previous post “Bill Rides”. The first step is to bring our Smuggler Bill avatar and Dapple Grey Mare prop into the scene. As you can […]
This post is here to provide a link to a short video clip I made of Smuggler Bill riding his dapple-grey mare through a wood. Click on the picture above to see the clip on YouTube The beauty of this is that now I’ve got him riding through the wood, I make several sequences, where […]
“Smuggler Bill rides gallant and gay On his dapple-grey mare, away, and away”. I don’t seem to have a dapple-grey horse, so I will need to re-skin another horse. I selected the Arabian Horse from the Horse & Tack pack. Having got the horse on set, I scrolled down the Modify panel on the right of […]
Sooner or later I am going to have to get around to doing some animation. Unless I want to spend a lot of money or a lot more time, I guess I am going to have to compromise and draw a line under Bill. I fiddled a bit with the colour of the shirt and […]
With iClone, making our characters talk is fantastically easy. You can either speak directly into a microphone and see your character’s mouth move with your voice or do as I perfer to, which is to record a sound clip and then get your charater to talk to that. I asked my friend, the American Bill […]
In the last post, I put one of my friends faces onto an avatar. As mentioned while this acheived much of what I wanted, I felt there needed to be some additional adjustments. The real Bill, who already bears some resemblence to how I imagined Smuggler Bill should look, basically has a squarer head than my […]