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June 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Aauga 3D Users Meetup - Devils presentation.

Austin has so many meet-ups on every specialist interest it's hard to keep track of them all and avoid missing out. But one that has become a bit of a regular is the monthly Aauga meeting for 3D Users. It's pretty well attended (40 to 50-ish last few times I've been) and has some interesting presenters. This evening I got some time to stand up to talk about the film again to fill time while the scheduled presenters prepared their…

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Added by Michael Cawood - Director on June 29, 2011 at 2:39am — No Comments

Prep and Landing

I'm going to start 'Prep' for more shots, and put aside the 'Landing' page I've been working on (see... had you fooled :P).

I've been working on the landing page for the film for the past week along with helping out the team. It's not all that easy to show the progress on it unfortunately as I've been focused on the mechanics of the site rather than the visuals. It's been a lot of coding and experimentation. But hopefully that will be done and online in the next week.

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Added by Michael Cawood - Director on June 26, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

71% - Progress Update

We're in pretty good shape after my hiatus. Animation kept things progressing the most, and kept that slope moving up.

I've done a backup of all the files and cleaned out the Dropbox folders to keep them lean. I'll need to check in on a few people over the next week, but I'm not in hurry as some may simply… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on June 19, 2011 at 3:28pm — 1 Comment

Back soon

I've been enjoying my honeymoon with Emily. But we're on our last day, packing up and heading off today. We've got some major tidying up to do at home and lots of people to write to but I should be able to give everyone their feedback soon and get back up to speed. So post any new work you have in the next 24 hours if you can so that I'm not giving you notes on old stuff. See you all soon!

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on June 17, 2011 at 4:01pm — 2 Comments

About to get hitched

I'm just about to get hitched... wish me luck!

Emily's Wedding Blog

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on June 5, 2011 at 1:46pm — 12 Comments

DT Wing Rig

Just thought I'd share this new training video from Digital Tutors on rigging a wing in Maya. May not be relevant anymore this far into production, but whatever. :)

http://www.digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=38

-Jon

Added by Jon Ambrose on June 1, 2011 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment