All of my posts from my 1st and 2nd years at NTU.
3-Shot Movie Submission
As I outlined in my Evaluation; Overall, I think the animation of Jade turned out decent. I would do a lot of tweaks here and there for the colours, maintaining form and jitteriness, so that’s something I intend to work on. In general though, my planning and drawing needs to be much much better for next year.
Also gotta plan out my sounds better.
Rough animation for the 3 Shot Movie. I’m not proud of the 3rd shot very much, but I don’t really have time to change it at this point. Need to get Jade cleaned so I can focus on colouring and sort out the background assets. I have them drawn but I’ll colour them after
Alex can now raise and lower her inner brows, also transferred her skin to a lower poly mesh so I can do the eyes easier later >:)
Still need to fix her run at the end but that’ll be easy enough
Forgot to upload these from last weeks face rigging session, gave Alej the ability to open her mouth :O
Progress on 3 shot, changed the first shot to be more close up, because animating the background was gonna be a nightmare, and also completely removed the ‘fail shot’ to save time on the whole reloading thing… Will do the background assets on separate layers and compile in AE and that
Also theres a timing error with the way Jade enters the 2nd shot (out of no where just runs in lol) so I’ll have it so that she’s not there for like a second then runs in.
Now just need to clean her up.
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My progress on shot 2 and 3 for my movie. I’m reworking shot 1 from a different angle and more close up, to avoid doing the background too much (cause thats gonna take forever).
I’m aware that the run cycles and other parts are also really messy, and I plan to fix those once I finish these roughs so I have an idea on how the timing should be. I’m a little behind where I want to be but I’ll make sure to stay on top, a lot of the background will be drawn in another program and I’ll compile it all in After Effects.
Current progress adding inbetweens for the second shot since that’s the easiest one, aiming to finish it tomorrow morning
Need to paint her and add some skin info in Zbrush/Substance Painter tonight
Some images today of the model of Alej. I fixed her face a little bit in ZBrush and retopologised her for Friday. I’ll need to re do her XGen hair sadly since the skull shape has changed, but I can do that next week.
I exported two poly counts, just in case I decide the higher res one is too complex
Used refs to poorly model this boat for the 3-shot movie.
Just have to break the boat for the scene and sort out where the fire will be and stuff.
Did a few more drawings (or story boards) for my 3 Shot Movie where I just note down each movement for Jade in the scene.
So my plan for this week is to do the basic model for the ship in Maya, and do a really simple stepped animatic using a rig in there to get an idea of the perspective and camera movement, then do the 2D animatic based on that, hopefully by the end of the week.
My visual development for the 3-shot movie. I did these 3 drawings to get an idea of the colours I wanted in-case I do end up doing it in colour and to layout the boat. I’ll most likely do a quick SketchUp/Maya model of the boat for the perspective stuff.
I changed my idea for the 3-shot movie
The spidervaye one just wasn’t really telling anything in my opinion, and I wanted to do something a bit more dynamic.
Most likely going to go with the 1st 3 shots, since the story is much more readable.
My ideas for the 3-shot movie, had them before but forgot my sketchbook at home for Easter. Probably going to use my spiderwoman character but change her outfit a bit to fit the setting.
I’ll do more detailed storyboards with the idea I settle with.
Here are the final products, and to everyone’s surprise, they’re on time. Credits Animation: Matt Rogers James Chaplin Natalie Robinsion Ash Ricketts Kosta Karvountzis Story boarding: Matt Rogers James Chaplin Natalie Robinsion Rachel Poon Ash Ricketts 3D modelling: Matt Rogers James Chaplin Rachel Poon Music: James Chaplin Rachel Poon Voice over: James Chaplin via We did […]
Got most of my parts done for the Finger Industries Flip TV Ident. Cleaning in Animate is not easy…
Poorly rendered shots of Alex’s hair at the moment that I’m working on for the XGen workshop…
It takes a very long time and I’m only making the base at the moment. I was struggling to get the hang of it to begin with, but I’ve found that starting the hair from back to front has so far been much easier for me
At the moment she looks kinda like Walder Frey so I need to finish this when I get the chance
Cleaned the lines on for my part of the Winter Ident for Finger Industries. The next step is just to colour in my bit and then I should be done, maybe fix a few things here and there to make the animation flow a little bit better, most of our group is working hard to do their parts too.
Getting the rolling log character to look like it was rolling was really hard, and because I didn’t want the flow to change too much I just drew him three times in three different ‘roll positions’ and I’ll add smear frames in places when doing the colouring.
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