ITS THE END AND WE KNOW IT

Here is my loverly animations of what i handed in two cycles one with white background and one with a background. There are still things i need to tweak but i can easly do that over the assessment week. I will also be doing my treatment...... yep here goes some eye popping stuff, since i am a great writer you will see words spill out of the paper into real life creating a strange and biezzar world.

Well i have more new images to upload to which i will do in a later post :) One image i done on my iPhone painting program ;P

of Water and Earth

I have decided to start creating illustration again in lovely high detailed colour. I was talking to a friend the other day about the zodiac signs and how water is compatible with earth and so on. So i have decided to create a piece called "of Water and Earth"

and here is what it looks like so far. Yep its the beginning of a painful piece but if i get it correct it should look very lovely. Please tell me what you think even though its at the beginning of the drawn so not that much detail just the silhouette work.

And here is the initial sketch :D

Little Trip to Sunderland

I went up to Sunderland to meet a lovely friend of my and she took me to the winter gardens i took some photos of these lovely vines and some strange plant that was squidgy. I can use these photos to come up with the tropical and unusual design of the trees and plant life wish i took more photos though. I was more in awe about some of the strange plants that lived there.

Run Cycle

Here is the run cycle with a background the background moves to quick and to slow for certain parts but the run is fine just looks off because of the background.

And here is the run cycle with no effects or backgrounds just white.

Its getting there

its nearly right now just messing around with stuff plus the wind is to fast for the movement of the cloth until the wind is meant to be fast.

Here be my test for the flowers power

Yes as the title is saying i have made my flowers move and snap like Venus fly traps :) tell me what you think. There are bits that needs sorting but all in all i am happy with the way they move. O yeah i also added a faded oval to the frame which i will use for when the child becomes afraid.

Skills and stuff

All right kid time for story time

Through out this week i have developed the skills to be able to make things dance in after effects. Am geet proud of the test i have produced. Those puppet pins do wonders that i thought would of created complications. But they didn't, so now my tubby fingers are going to be flying with my mouse to create every walk, jump, skip cycle i need. There are other lovely little elements i have found in this wondrous creative programme called after effects such as, i am able to do layer filters as if i were in Photoshop and well Photoshop is my home when it comes to drawing. So the layout is more Premiere pro but this i have used before. All in all after effects was a new programme for me but it did not cause any confusion simple because of the Photoshop and Premiere Pro's layout.

So to say the least i am rather happy with my work this week i have also done story boards. Just need to finalize the script in proper script style. Which i am terrible at so there is a skill i must try and develop on.

O i also was taut how to use emitters in cinema 4D by the lovely Paul. Thanks to those lovely emitters i have been able to take a huge bulk load of work of my shoulders for the fairs and dandelion seeds.

Walk Cycle

Here is the first walk cycle its still slow in certain areas and he covers to much ground for how slow his legs move. But this is just to give a general idea on how the animation will roughly look like when it will be complete. Well the visual style that is haha.

the segmented character was joined together doing a hierarchy in After Effects and the all done with puppet pins. I will throw up the screens on how i done it in a later post but i still have IK chains to try out to see if its better than the puppet pins.

I used After Effects to put the dandelion seeds in as well by just using filters to overlay them onto the the piece. The emissions was created in Cinema 4D using emitters and wind. :D

Look out!

Here is my latest piece that i mocked up today. He is soo happy to have his lovely teddy bear "plush" in his hands that he doesn't even realise were he is walking. Oooo dear, anyways there is other little critters if you look for them. Also the vegetation is all mad up, hopefully by the time i come to composite anything to my animation when the walk cycles are complete i will have time to put these lovely plants in.

Timetable

Here is my time plan for next week and hopefully i will stick to it and create loverly pieces of animated walk cycles :D

Dandelions "fairies" emmiter

Here is a quick test using the emmiters in cinema 4D and the wind tools to create the effect of dandelion seeds floating across the screen which i will need for some scenes. Please tell me what you think.

Test the puppet

Here is a quick test of the puppet pins and what i could use it for. And with puppet pins i can do thins like simulate grass physics and cloth physics. Its only a small test i will do a image to test out what i can do to benefit my animation with these lovely puppet pins. I will also try out the ik as soon as i have installed it. Which i should be doing tomorrow.. hopefully.

teddy got present?

Here is a image that i created for a dear friend who is not feeling so grand. So i though what the hell why not may as well relate it to my project as well as for her. Hope you like it and tell me what you think!

Time to Go

This piece is along the same theme and idea of the other recent piece i have done. Instead of seeing the poor child running for his life or looking serious, i though "hell everyone needs to be happy". So i have started to make a series of the child playing with his teddy "plush". They seem to be going well and i have also decided to make new vegetation for the piece and will be put into the animation.

This gives more work for my self but i feel it will give the animation that little bit more of life to it. These will only be implemented if i have enough time.

I also have made my assets for my after effects test's to see how the character moves with ik chains and puppet pins. These will hopefully be up by the end of the week. I also have teddy "plush" walk and climb to put under the dragons eyes to see if it looks worthy or not.

Update

I have changed one of the hands for the child looked uncomfortable with the way his hands were orientated. So hopefully it looks as though his hands are not odd looking.

New T-Shirt Design

Here is a new piece that i may print on a t-shirt later on depending on how the test print turns out. I though i would draw something more nice and show the child's happier side of things. Please tell me what you think.

more sketches

I have been sketching like crazy i have a good few designs for t-shirts badges and so on. I will use illustrator for some of them then the rest will be done in photoshop. The reason for the illustrator usage is simply i havnt got much work using it so i will try and brush up on some skills will it.

Video Game

I forgot to mention in my previous blogs that i am working closely with my brooother on this project of mine. He has decided to wont to make a game of my little boys adventure. So i will have my work cut out for me thinking on the terms for the animation and the game. So i really need to get my script nailed in the next week. So Dave if you reading this i will be stalking you on Thursday for help :3

Through out this week i have been making teddy bear walk and climb cycles which i still need to test to see if they look ok. On top of this i have been refining my layout sheet still need to do the expression's sheet to smooth out the images.

I have started to do some file management to organize my modules. I still need to decide were a lot of my concept work will be placed in a certain module.

I will be redoing my t-shirt again due to the image being to small on the t-shirt and the image being a bit to dark to work out. I will also be making a few more posters. All of this is done in my spare time and its all for my marketing of my work to try and get my awareness up with world!

I will need to start a strict time table to manage my testing times and my character animation so i can find out which looks the best and what will take less time but still get the style i am going for.

These videos have influence me and is making me want to try out some technique's that have been used in the videos.

BBC Winter Olympics

Olympics 2008 Monkey

Varmints

The Tale of How

Heavenly Sword

Layout Views

Here are my layout views of the character there a bit late but they are done :D

T-shirts and stuffffffffff!!!!!!!!! 2

Okay so i got my prototype t-shirt done today and here it is!! With a lovely fashion pose for you all to be in awe over... yeah its a bit creepy hahah

The t-shirt design i feel needs to be bigger and cover a bit more of the t-shirt but i will test this next week or tomorrow if possible. I have also been doing a bit more frame by frame work for the teddy bear and its going okay will see soon enough though.

T-shirts and stuffffffffff!!!!!!!!!

I have started to do my line test's for my teddy's walk cycle! They seem to be okay so far but i will creating 2 different types of walk cycles just to see what the best one looks like for the character.

On top of this i have been doing my research even though its going slow just trying to find good examples of what i wont to do, but seems there is a very few amount of animations that are easy to find. So i will have to go about looking at different ways people have approached certain way of animation such as cut out and stop motion.

Plus as something that only took me a few minuets to do i have created a nice little t-shirt design which i will get printed off soon and will post a picture of it's gloriousness...

Dynamic Poses

Here are some Dynamic Poses i have done will be creating some concept pieces soon on how the animation should look when its done! Lets hope i get it right

New book :)

I got my new art book to add to my collection today :D The Art of Uncharted 2 Among Thieves!
And yes Naughty Dog are the creaters and this book is amazing! Iv always looked up to these guys along side the likes of OddWorld! I also managed to get my grubby hands on a dead risen 2 one not much in there but there is some good stuff.

I will be working out what i need to submitt to which module out of all the work i have. I am also working on a few test so i will update the stats on them as i go along. The layout sheets are almost completed which am happy about.

The music side is still gritty and i havent really touched it much but i have started something, will leave it for a while so i can grab the feel and motion of the animation its self to work with.

Through out this week i have been working on my layout sheets this week and it has been going well, i need to finish and tweak my dynamic poses. I have also been watching the making of DVD's and one that really took my interests was Alan Wake's making of for one simple fact it covers nearly everything.

The Alan Wake making of coverers how they progressed from being stuck in a Basement to a thriving well renowned company of the name Remedy. They progressed from a simple top down game called Death Rally then to the Max Pyne franchised. Now Alan Wake is there latest and the visuals are stunning.

This kind of company really interests me as well as Starbreezer.