November 29th, 2008
Lots of things have been getting in the way of this blog and my Adventure. I was made redundant from my job having been offered a good package to move with the company I worked for. I sold my house, my wife gave up her job, we found a new place and were going through the process of buying when it happened. So we were left homeless and jobless.
I am currently temping as a forklift driver, my wife is looking for a job and we managed to get a place to rent hence now being able to write here.
This is not the start of getting back to animating yet as I have three projects for the wife to make, a shoe rack, a book case and a desk for me to work from. I expect it will take time to get back on track.
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June 22nd, 2008
Went for a little ride out on my Nexus today and through the wonders of DIY I managed to capture it on Video with my XDA MiniS in a box.
 My little Rideout
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December 15th, 2007
Ok so here she is, the bike not the girl 
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December 12th, 2007
Ok here’s the deal, the company I work my butt off for is moving and I am moving with the company hopefully. My wifes father is in the last stages of cancer and she is flying out periodically to look after him taken it in turns with other family members. My scooter/motorbike is going wrong and I really can’t afford to spend more money on it so I am getting a ‘new’ second hand one, pictures may follow (Gilera Nexus 500). All this plus work being rather nuts means not much animation happening… however I have done a Walk Cycle for MrBoto though it might need some tidying up as I haven’t messed with the graph editor yet.
MrBoto Walk Cycle
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September 26th, 2007
Yse, MrBoto is mvoign… I need to type more carefully… let me try again… Yes, MrBoto is moving!!! (Oh nuts I used three exclamation marks)
I am currently animating a run cycle for MrBoto and its looking good so far. I think I will need to tweak it quite a bit. Using FBIK to do setup saved me alot of hassle in rigging but I had to learn how to animate using FBIK, it may have been quicker to do it all myself but in the long run it will enable me to focus more on animation than things I really find too time consuming. When I started animating I found his hands were growing bigger as he ran, weird to imagine I know, so I have fixed this by locking all scale attributes on the bones.
Hopefully the animation will be finished in a week or so and I will post it straight away 
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September 5th, 2007
Well aside from what I have already mentioned he is complete and ready to be animated!
I created a section on the left side… left??? No right side of this page called ‘Problems to Solve’ just so I can show my problem and if anyone cares to check this site out and may be has an idea on how to solve it or most likely I keep looking at it I might come up with a solution. Which I did with MrBoto’s forearm rotation issue! Not sure when I will be able to post the first animation but it will happen!
Woo hoo!
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August 27th, 2007
MrBoto is near completetion finally. Just setting up the head, filling in the missing headshapes that were messing me up and then all I need to do is fix the fore arms which are not behaving how I want and he will be ready to animate but not complete… Not complete? I hear you say!… Yes that would be correct, he will never be complete because his feet and hands can morph into whatever he or rather I wish them to. So what ever I need for him to do I will have to make and add them to his arsenal
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August 26th, 2007
So heres why, Work! The past three months I have been doing so much overtime its been crazy and tiring so I haven’t even been able to focus on my hobby or anythnig else much. Now all that over time is over I can spend time getting back on track so…
MrBoto the Robot is near completion just need to set up the facial rigging using Mr Osipas rigging script and he’s ready to go
Heddy needs to have her foot rigging re done to enable more foot control, an idea has been formulated and will need to be implemented.
Rioh needs her hair doing and then she will need to be rigged
Bunny requires complete re-rigging due ot me really not being happy with the differences between the drawing of the head and the head I made over a year ago
So I am going to do those in that order which will give me a model to practise animating, whilst finishing off other models and preping any stories.
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May 28th, 2007
I have been busy with work, but due to having some spare time this weekend I have also been playing with back ground ideas for an animation with Heddy. This is a shot, in black and white of Heddy’s Barn and background. There would be a few other farm buildings with a dirt track leading from a main road.
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