After quite a few failed attempts at modelling, I think I'm finally on the right track. Mostly so far I've tried extruding the faces to come with the forms I needed. I've done this so that the curves are going to be sequentials. Jamie's help today has been extremely helpful, he helped me come at it from a different angle, and go to curves again. I'm not done yet, but I'm getting there, as far as modelling is concerned.
I've also decided to abandon the 'Stop Staring' book that I've been following so far. It's a great book, and really helpful. But I'm going for modelling and rigging-light, whereas this book goes into great depths. I was trying to skip through most of it and just take the practical stuff out, but they're just too difficult rto seperate. I'm gonna try following 'Digital tutors' videos more.
One more issue I'm flagging up for myself is a scheduel red-flag. A month is left for this project. If I'm lucky, I'm gonna finish modelling ,texturing and rigging within two weeks. Then one week to animate, and then one week for camera-set up, rendering, compositing and burning.
One week to animate. This is extremely frustrating, and is just the thing I feared would happen. I'm looking around me and everyone is more or less in the same boat, so at least it's comforting to know it's nothing wrong with my pace. Still, so far 2 terms without serious character animation. I realize that at my spare time i'm gonna have to do a lot more animation, but it's a real pity that the course doesn't support what I wanna do
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