Bible timeline plus various

Uni is done, and so here is a bunch of updates for you. A plethora of pictures! Maybe not enough to account for my recent non-existant updates, but ah well. With my uni career over my main aim is to recommence daily updates, so there should be daily (or at least pretty frequent) pictoral goodies from henceforth!

The 3 images for your viewing pleasure today are a pretty mixed bag. At the top we have my colour coded bible timeline. For building the basic timeline I used a bunch of resources, but mainly the dates and timelines in my study bible (The Christian Growth Study Bible, NIV translation, published by Zondervan) and the bible timeline available to look at here:

http://www.sundayschoolresources.com/timeline.htm

My aim was to condense the knowledge from these two sources into a one-page format that would be visuall easy to grasp. Both of these sources have a lot more detail and are a result of much work and effort - so make sure and check them out when you get the chance :)

The sources for the book-type timeline posted above were mostly from the visual data site Many Eyes:

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/bible-books-by-testament-type-and-

and an article on the Old Testament available here:

http://christianteens.about.com/od/understandingyourbible/p/StructureOldTes.htm





The middle pic is the promotional poster for my final year animation, which I displayed at my exhibition.

You can watch the animation here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Sg0ZrmKdI




The last pic is one I drew last night at probbaly around 2am. It's my imagining of the first time my DnD character Anya the Cleric (who also starred in my animation - she's featured in mind-boggling 3D in the poster above XD ) met Steph's character: Elle the Warlock.

There are sevral things I don't like about it as skecth. One is that Anya looks pretty glaikit and seems to be staring fixatedly at the region just above Elle's head. Another is that she looks about 15, rather than 22 whcih is her actual age XD

However, I like the genral feel of the sketch. I was going for the big contrast between them, which I achieved. Anya with her country-bumpkin freckles, and polite manners and positivity, and Elle with her laid back, femme fatale cool-ness. If she were any more hip she'd put on a pair of sunglasses while walking away from an explosion XD

Anyway, enjoy!

Anya's Face =D

Finally finished the blend shapes work on my cleric, allowing me to give her a range of expressions with just a click of the mouse :) Fun fun fun

The one at the top is her normal expression, just so you can compare. The one at the bottom is my personal fav. I call it the "Awkwaaaaaaard" face - as in "I just rolled a critical fail on my diplomacy check and asked the queen when her baby was due, when she's not pregnant - Doh!"

Will need to figure out how to mask her teeth somehow - maybe in post production? Her "surprised" face looks kinda wierd cause ideally you wouldn't see her teeth, but I had to leave them where they were for blendshape...

Anyway - I'm happy :)

Cleric Head

Finished Anya's head =D

So we all know what that means... (or maybe we don't... hmmm...)

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RIGGING TIME!!!!!

Almost time to actually start animating. 0_O Now there's a scary thought.

Anyway. Its 3am and I'm working tomorrow x_X ugh. No rest for the nerdy. Peace out.

More Cleric

I meant to upload these last night - oops!

Cleric Facial Sketches

Sketches of Anya the cleric - using actress Amy Adams as a facial reference. To be used for building the model head. Will turn out a few more before doing the actual front and profile views I think...