Hey Bam-Bu team!! The Bam-Bu group is very proud to announce that the River Boar for episode 1 of Dragon Weaver has just landed on the front page of www.cghub.com. This is a wonderful site, and an honor for the Dragon Weaver project. Thank you for all the support!!

River Boar - Episode 1 of Dragon Weaver

Here is a gorgeous render of the River Boar (mythical mysterious beast) from episode 1 of the Dragon Weaver animated series!! Amazing work by Bam-Bu's Modeling Director: Josh Singh.

The RIVER BOAR!

Here is a mysterious creature from Episode 1 of the Dragon Weaver 3d animated series!!! Modeled by our Modeling Director Josh Singh. 

Better renders coming soon!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

From the Bam-Bu team!

We love our 60+ followers, and over 7000 views of the blog. The BamBu team is dedicated to making this 3d animated series happen! The teaser is almost done!!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

A frame from the teaser!!

A frame from the Dragon Weaver teaser!!

And So it begins!

Starting the process of pre production on a few different aspects of the Dragon Weaver web  series!!

Hiroshi Final Model.

Here is the final cartoon model of Hiroshi, the hero of the Dragon Weaver story!!! No textures as of yet, but they are coming!

New Story Teller Concept

This character is un-named for now. We call him the story teller. An ancient being from the spirit world.

Modeled by our modeling director Josh Singh.

Paint Over Concept

No lighting, No textures, 3d set. This will be painted over by our Art Director, and Concept Director. I cannot wait to see what they do!!!

Sound Design Test!

Here is our hero Hiroshi doing a little training!!! This test was for our sound director to mess with some sound design.

Story Teller Color pass 1

This is the first color pass on the story teller!!! Looks awesome, colored by our Art Director Pio.


Going to try some other schemes, and get a more "spirit" vibe to him, as opposed to just an old man/human vibe.


Awesome work though.

Story Tell Concept!

Here is the concept for the Story Teller! Unnamed for now, this ancient mythical being has a great cosmic power, and responsibility.   Stay TOONED for more!!!

Hiroshi and his Sword

Hiroshi and the new design of his sword. The mythical blade of MAR. 

Hiroshis Legendary Sword

Here is the re-design on Hiroshis legendary sword. "The Blade of Mar" 


Stay tuned for more on the lore of this mythical weapon.

A quick animation i knocked out today. Just further testing Hiroshi out, and creating some movement to get a feel for his character.

Hiroshi Zen Walk

A quick animation i knocked out today. Just further testing Hiroshi out, and creating some movement to get a feel for his character

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UW1rxUmAJk

Hiroshi Movement Test

We find our hero Hiroshi doing his first animation!!! This is part of a series of animations the Toon Sushi animators will do, in order to set the rules for the animation style in the Dragon Weaver world.


http://vimeo.com/29207206

The Story Teller Design 3

This is an awesome design our Modeling Director Josh Singh did for the storyteller. I would say this is on the edge of perfect for what we want!

StoryTeller Designs

The storyteller is an ancient being that just "exists"...Somewhere between here and now, and imaginations and dreams.  When the storyteller begins to tell a story, mystic writing begins to resurrect on his mythical scrolls, and his words become real...they become legend....This is the foundation to all of the Warriors Legend stories.

StoryTeller Design #1

The design for the storyteller..an ancient being that tells all of the stories in the WARRIORS LEGEND world.

Princess Aira Char Design #1

From an ancient mystical tribe who's identity has been hidden for thousands of years, Princess Aira is more than meets the eye...

Warriors Legend Story Teller

All of our stories are told by the **un-named** story teller. He is an ancient being that awakens to tell the tales of amazing individuals throughout time. As he tells their stories, they appear upon magical scrolls, and the stories come to life.

Hiroshi's ancient Blades of "MAR"

His Blades - The legendary Blades of "MAR" The blades were forged from a mystical ancient set of wind chimes. When Hiroshi exposes the blades, the swords will "HUMMMMMM" in a soft chime reverb sound...this will always give him away should he be hiding and pull the blades out. He also uses them to scale the sides of any wall or mountain. (the ends of claw shapes on them. with a flick of the wrist the blades can slide out or in.

Hiroshi's Arm Designs

His wraps - from the ancient flag of the empire

His Dragon Shaped Birthmark - The birthmark starts off as an egg type shape..as Hiroshi unlocks more of his abilities the birthmark slowly transforms over time to eventually reveal a Dragon. The style of this will NOT be a yakuza style japanese dragon. It will be a mythical tribal style dragon that he will "unlock" pieces of as his story unfolds

TOON SUSHI Logo Jingle!!!

Oh yeah!! Our sound director whipped up our first official custom "jingle"

love it!!!

Texture style test

A paint over our Toon Sushi Art Director Pio did. We are testing out how detailed we want to go with the textures. He did a straight paint over on the original proxy mesh render.

Looks sweet!!

HIROSHI'S proxy mesh!

This is Hiroshi's proxy mesh.

The proxy mesh is a representation of what the final model will end up looking like. Josh did a killer job!!! Even in this base representation, I feel like you can see the character/style take form. This will be carried through everything in the Dragon Weaver world.

The look we are going for is not a overly complicated fully rendered CG movie. Its going to have an almost "theatrical/play" type of vibe.

THERE ARE NO TEXTURES on this base mesh. Just flat colors, and some smoothing groups to break up the parts.

Dragon Weaver UPDATE!!!

Hey Toon Sushi Peeps!!!

So much has happened over the past 10 months with the Dragon Weaver cartoon!!!

First and foremost I would like to announce the addition of my 4 partners in this adventure!!!

Josh Singh - Modeling Director/Co Founder
Pio Ravago - Art Director/Co Founder
Te Wilson - Technical Director/Co Founder
Jeremy Robins - Sound Director/Co Founder

With that said, i wanted to update the blog!!! Hiroshi and the Dragon Weaver world is under development in full force.

Although these are all works in progress, they are definitely close to the final vision!

ENJOY and share the Toon Sushi Blog with friends! We will have some 3d animation for you SOON!!!!

Below is the Sculpt of Hiroshi. The sculpt is around 60% done, but already captures Hiroshi's silhouette and form.