Its Finished

So here it is guys, its been submitted and everything and now my degree is over, which is all good. It took me several attempts to get it up on the tube but none the less, here it is. Bish.




Big thanks to Paul Smith for helping me make stupid voices, and thanks to my friends and family for your support over these last three years. You got me through it.
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Looming.

Is my dead line, but things are looking good. I think by the end of today I will have about 1 min of it finished. One big revelation has been to scrap all mouths. Thats right, no mouths. To compensate for whilst they are talking, their bodies will move, and possibly head nodding, but they will not have mouths. This is not a cop-out for less work, it is however a decision I have been pondering for some time. I just don't think they need them, they look nice as it is and it is a stylization that I like. Plus I don't have the relevant skill set for it, so why do it poorly? Tutors do not think ill of my decision, if it was a cop-out I would be honest.

Back to my work flow, heres something that I cooked up, its not finished and has no sound but its one of my favorite parts, plus it looks great.



I have done some other bits and bobs and am looking forward to putting this bad boy up on the tube in its entirety. Hope your well, more screens to come later. Muchos love X

FML.

Just so this goes down on my record, to add to the list of shit that has happened on this project, I now have a killer migraine which came on last night, and now is completely fucking me over. I'd love to lie down in the dark, but instead I've got to look at this light box.
In other news, with 90% of the titles in there looking sexy, and initial shot pretty much done and a few other bits and bobs (sort of 4 second shots) done, along with near finished parts, I think I'm looking at around 30-40 seconds doneish now. I mean, its not great, but it could be worse. I'll have an update with how I've progressed y the end of the day, the way I'm feeling right now it might just be pictures of barf, but it may be work. Chat soon X

Lincoln Bound.

I don't mean that in a traveling way, more of a bondage way. Either way my workstation was set up and being used before I even begun to unpack, I think I'll be living out of Pepsi cans and suitcases this week. So, I am indeed back and since this time I have produced my establishing shot (minus a few people) which you can see in stills here.


 As always click them to enlarge, to put it into a little more perspective for you, the mountains are a layer, then there are three town layers, meaning when the camera pans down you can see the depth simulation between the layers. Also a little fire in there. Particles, boo-ya. I do need to put some people in there, but I'm not doing it just yet, since if there weren't people, I could get away with it. I'll will 100% come back to it if I have time.

Next I went through making titles for all of the text sections, these look pretty sexy me thinks, they are also animated to move slightly closer to the audience over time, so it should look nice and cool. Click to enlarge, but it shouldn't make much of a difference.

So yeah, here I am, ploughing through. Hope to have a finished product up here soon enough. Give me a week and we'll see how well that goes. Catch you soon.


Also this is made by one of my fellow students here at Lincoln University, and he has made a small animation based on my ideas. Here is my Epic Exit. Cheers buddy!

Further Work Needed

So there it is as promised, I am aware that a little work is still needed here, such as the floor becoming opaque, and the mothers arm which has a keyframe largely out of place. Aside from this I am pretty happy with how its looking, it defiantly is going how I wanted it to. Hope you enjoy and let me know what you think, facebook or here. SAFE.

Royalty Is Win.

There is my opinion of the douches who held parties against the promotion of royalty. Anyway I hope you all enjoyed the festivities of the royal wedding, wasn't it grand. TO be fair though the grandeur of it all does get taken away slightly when watching it fleetingly whilst animating. This is correct I have continues the animation section of this project and hope to soon have another 8secondish clip for you to see with a little more animation in it, rather than pretty much stills. It looks pretty fucking sick though. Took me ages to get the walking animation just right mind, I started with a lot of rotation and little movement. It looked terriable. Then I decided rotation was wrong and tried simply moving the legs vertically and wow does it look better. Bish. I also had problems with fire, but after raping a few tutorials and applying my own take on them (which basically mean I didn't use them) I got some nice looking flames, that look pretty realistic, but with enough flare and colour to make them suit the cartoony aspect.

In terms of my work place I am moving again tomorrow, back to Lincoln town where I will have a stationary work station until the end of my university days. Holy shit balls I'm done in a week. That is scary. But My time scales of things will be thrown out since I will being all nighters, and have a lot of RnD to do with my group aside from this animation (which is a long way away from being done...). Anyway, no link in this post but hopefully a follow up post with the link soon. Muchos Love X.

Progress.

A necessity in this world and especially at this time on my course. I have for you a small snippet, from the bar scene, with the animatic's sound and the animatic playing in the corner nice and small so you can really see how I'm going. That animation is very simple right now, still no mouths, and not really much movement. Its kind of the animatic, but pretty. Anyway here you go.



Mmmm.... tasty....