Steam Golem Animation Blog

Well as we do more work on teh Ogre and get closer to the actual rendering of him I just felt the skin shader was not doing him enough justice so this is a new revised skin shader I am working on,

Okay guys here is the first background plate test! I think it turned out nicely there is a quick little jump in the beginning that needs to be fixed but otherwise next plate is the accessories plate!

So we have finally made our way though animation tests and also setting up the backgrounds for the short, her is a quick little post of the Background set up, I will update with some finished shots later today hopefully, I will also be posting the background music test for the animation Hope you all enjoy,

Sweat Dripped down his hands, making the grip on his wooden sword slippery and loose. He tightened his grip on the leather strap wrapped around the hilt of his replica weapon when he remembered his tutor’s lesson.

     “The tighter the grip on your weapon the less accurate you shall be, and when you finally clash weapons you will shatter your wrist. Remember you and the weapons are one; you need to move together, not against each other. Feel the weapon let it become part of you, you are not choking the life out of it.”

    His nerves were taking over misdirecting his attention, “The sun was so bright today” he thought to himself.

     He shuffled his feet in the dry dirt and pea pebble mixtures bellow him.  He looked around the stadium looking at all the other students staring him down waiting for him to make a move.

    The temple was huge, this was his training ground it was only half a stadium but it must have been able to sit at least one thousand. Today it only sat three thousand though. The half moon shape of the stadium’s seating was salt and peppered with different faces looking out to see the battle that was about to commence. Almost the whole school turned out for the battle master student sparring match. You had to best your teacher in order to graduate, or at least meet the council’s approval that you were a worthy fighter. Now he stood in the center of this arena, four great poles loomed over him and a great dirt circle in the center.

     Throughout the years he must of watched dozens of other students fall to the ground never making it past where he himself stood at this very moment…

     “Wait focus idiot” he thought to himself

     He looked across from him there stood a hard man, dressed in nothing but a loose tunic and leather riding pants his dirt brown hair ruffled and his war hardened face that seemed to be chizzled from stone. His gray eyes intent on him, almost seeing directly into his soul piercing the very center of him, his hand shaking from the job at hand.

    The man before him, his teacher Chord, had tested him over the years pushed him, made him feel the fool and made him feel better than the rest. He was the closet thing to a father he had ever known. Now was his chance to show this man he was everything he pushed him to be and more.

     It was amazing the heat did not seem to bother Chord not a bead of sweat dripped off Chord’s face. Chord started to move, the man moved with a swiftness and ease, almost as if he was part of the wind. He glided over the dirt as if each pebble moved with him.

     “Damnit focus, your thinking to much again,” Rych said to himself “C’mon just move your feet, Remember watch, and predict his movement.”

    Rych picked up his feet they seemed so heavy, like large weights pulling him into the abyss of dirt and pebbles below his feet.

The Ogre posed up with some pre-texture work,

Here is the concept to Serrin just about to enter the Temple of the Sword of Kings,

Hey guys a quick art dump from us here at Steam Golem, hope you all enjoy,

Here are some props from the short…

And the Final Image of the Ogre, Hope you all Enjoy,

So here is the first short we are working on it is a 1.45 minute short called Ogre Soup! WIP Title,