Thursday 14 April 2011

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Finished sequences 23 and compiled the video together as is and uploaded it. I will try and get some more sequences rendered in the next week but for now I have decided to stop animating while getting ready for the hand in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkhRjJsSNWc
So I guess this will probably be my final post of April, until my work is ready for hand in. And my final post of this semester.

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Wednesday, 06 April 2011

Was sent this in a link yesterday, a great look at the puppetry of war horse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7u6N-cSWtY
Also finished sequence 66-67, with the clock appearing behind Ian and Daren, I think its one of the best scenes so far. I am learning more and more over time in animation, and at the beginning I wasn’t aware of what I didn’t know, yet now over time and watching animation dvds and books, I am becoming a lot more aware of techniques in animation. And applying them hopefully successfully. I admittedly maybe a bit to anal. Especially trying to keep the clock to be the right time in every shot. Even when not shown, but it’s a little quirk that adds to the atmosphere in the scene.

Saturday 2 April 2011

Sunday, 03 April 2011

Renders off a few more sequence and began animating sequence 66-67, where Ian discusses how fast the day is going with Darren. Its hard graft today, for some reason I just have not been with it and making little progress, which is annoying since I am still about 2 weeks behind. But I am going to work for another hour and see if I can get at least Ian’s body working and then work on Daren and the lip sync tomorrow.

Its been very slow and problematic with the rendering. The simulation of the light with physiques was causing a lot of different problems when used through video post in a sequences of the different cameras. In the end the easiest way was to render off each camera individually. Sometimes the simulation would get caught in the moth, or just when the camera moved it would bob more, and therefore I couldn’t add the zdepth and white layers to the sequence since they were not exactly the same. Finally I got it though however this was more with luck than anything. I doubt I will be able to get all the sequences rendered by the end of April for the hand in. But will do my best.

Anyway here is a still from the last sequence rendered.