JD Kendoll's 3D Animation Blog

Ex'pression Gamer's Poster

2008-09-08T22:19:00.000-07:00

This is just a mock up of a poster for the Ex'pression Gamer's club I just started at Ex'pression College.

My 3D Organic Models made during high School

2008-05-28T22:14:00.000-07:00

Yeah its been a fun four years, the last two being the best.
I want to look back on these models from all that I have learned from making them. They are in pretty much the order I made them in except the last two are switched as the last one, Lynch, is my favorite.

Life is Death in Disguise

2008-03-06T23:42:00.001-08:00

My film is finished here it is:

Decapitation

2008-02-05T19:15:00.000-08:00

Scene excerpt from my movie

Lynch Walk Cycle

2008-01-28T23:44:00.001-08:00

I finished animating everything for my film and slowly bringing them all back into 3ds max for final render and effects. This is the starting walk cycle for Lynch

FIRE!

2008-01-14T22:37:00.001-08:00

Simple test that I am going to use for my film later.

K9 Logo

2008-01-09T22:38:00.000-08:00

This is what I created for our film entries this year.

Fighter Finished Rigged Textured

2007-12-03T23:00:00.000-08:00

This is my other character in the animation I am working on in his 4 different iterations. Mainly just the weapons this guy carries.

Bitey Castle Entry

2007-11-26T22:08:00.000-08:00

This is my entry for the Bitey Castle Trailer. This is Adam Phillips work, creator of the Brackenwood Series, and I like his work so much that I decided to do one just because and maybe show off my editing skills.

*Fighter Textured Updated

2007-11-25T17:20:00.000-08:00

This is my fighter guy that I will either texture clothes or shape some for him.

Haven't updates in a little while, but I have been working. This is my fighter/ninja guy without his head and no textures. I tried to add some muscular look, but I don't have mudbox or zbrush to get a good look character. Oh well, I need to do what I can and get to animating as I am behind. I am hoping to finish the head tonight and get some textures on him otherwise he looks pretty naked. He is going to be killed in multiple forms so I am not to worried on his look.

K9 T-Shirt Logo

2007-11-12T20:38:00.001-08:00

I really had a productive day today. Finished a shotgun and now the K9 t-shirt logo. Since I work in 3D I decided to make a 3D model. This is it. I took some models from other stuff I have done and picture from other artists in the studio, but I still think it looks cool. I uploaded this second picture to show its not just a photoshopped picture but 3D

My Shotgun

2007-11-12T18:03:00.000-08:00

I totally forgot this weapon and glad I remembered to make it. It took about 3-4 hours to make and actually added it firing. Now I can finally work on my good guy.

Lynch Equipped

2007-11-11T00:35:00.000-08:00

While making this picture I found some errors with my rigging and hope to fix them soon. I am going to add more detail mainly symbols to the sword, but overall its done. It didn't take long as the shape did not require much work to make. I am not good at texturing stuff, so things do not look the best. Next on the agenda is my ninja/good guy character.

The Mighty Auto Glock-18

2007-11-10T20:57:00.000-08:00

This is the other gun weapon to be used in my next film. Last thing to do in weaponry is make a huge sword for my bad guy, Lynch. After this I will create my 'good guys' same model just different weapons. Then I can start animating.

Lynch with pistols

2007-11-06T22:18:00.000-08:00

I got bored and decided to add the deagles to Lynch, even though they are not going to be his weapons in the movie.

The Epic Deagle

2007-11-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

Just more work for my upcoming film. My deagle. Heres a short video of it. I will add more effects later. I did not go for perfection but just for it to look real enough to be seen as a deagle. Perfection is later when I have actual training on creating this stuff. This is just from a single side reference image of a deagle.

Latest 3D Character

2007-10-30T19:20:00.000-07:00

This is the latest 3D model I had been working on for my upcoming film due in January. I am going to rig him tonight and still have to work the other model, which is going to be quicker as he does not have armor or nearly as amount of detail I put into this character. His name is Lynch and the badass bad guy in my movie. I am going to make all the weapons the next few days to get a change of pace and go back to working on this the other character.

My 3D Animations So Far

2007-10-25T20:19:00.000-07:00

If they do not load here is a link to my myspace with all of them: http://www.myspace.com/jdubbing .
Other wise they are in chronological order of creation. All these were done by me teaching myself how and reading tutorials on how to do similar things online. I will add my latest film I am working on and progression through the making. Probably will have my first finished 3D character up this weekend.
1. This was my first ever short film I made using the 3DS Max program. It was turned into the FIRST animation part of the robotics competition. I was still going through the tutorial book when I made this.

2.This is my second short 3D film, which was to be turned into the animation competition part of the FIRST robotic competition.

3.This was my first ever attempt at making a fully movable organic character. The animation part was kinda rushed as the deadline came faster than I expected so it did not turn out as well as I planned. But it was a big step for me and proud I did it. Doing it made it easier to make my Jewel Thief animation.

4.This is my third 3D animation I have ever made, but this was the first one that I ever used character models and had my fair share of rigging them, boy was that fun! Anyways this is a film I made in my ROP animation class at Sheldon High School, under K9 Studios.

5. This was a test 3D project I was doing to find out how I would go about cutting a body part of a 3D character to use in a film I am making this year, 2007, for K9 Studios. I took my old ninja model and first rigged model to find out how to get the effect. I was going to add in blood and other innards but decided just to get the arm being sliced off is all I needed to figure out.

6.This was just something I thought would be cool to do. Make a 3D lighter that emits water flame instead of fire. It cuts a little short of when it disappears which is the coolest part.