Sixty40

While doing research i came across this australian company called Sixty40. The first few seconds i didnt think there was anything special and then the monopoly board came up. I thought it was fitting with us doing a walk cycle with our animations as it shows the character running. After watching the whole thing i think they are pretty good, i liked the robot trying to dance and then he gets hit by a car, poor guy ha

Sixty40 Reel 2010 from sixty40 on Vimeo.

Dispicable Me

For our project we have to create a character and a scene with no background. After watching dispicable me i noticed that they have a few clips of just the yellow characters on white backgrounds. I thought these were great for reference for when i come to doing my actual animation.



These are the end credits to the movie, about 13 seconds in is when the animation with the white background starts.(it plays a few names and starts up again at 1:25 and 2:13)

Week 2 in AD108

This week i plan to get quite a bit done, or so i hope!

Monday - update blog with 3 examples of animations i found/liked during my research, and working on my 3d character.

Tuesday to Thursday - Working on 3D Character during class time and organising paper work at home

One film I found during the research is Hoodwinked - I watched this film years ago and loved it and then the other night while I was looking through the hard drive I came across it again. Its got all the elements a great animation should have - good characters, good story line and humour.



Another animation I liked was a demo reel with a simple character trying to eat steak but he has no mouth!



A lot of the character animation videos i found had the character lifting or pulling objects. This might be something worth looking into as if loads of demo reels have it then i guess it might be good to know how to do it myself. First things first thought, i need to build my character!!!

In class we were given a hand out to research certain artists and watched a few pieces of their work. I liked all of them as they were quite different to eachother. I liked Gluko and Lennon because it was really random (i posted this clip on last weeks blog).

Another 3d character animation i found was by Daniel Klug - it is a short he created a year ago. I like the movements, the colours and also the simplicity to the characters.

Les Dangereux from Daniel Klug on Vimeo.

Gluko & Lennon ENG from Gluko & Lennon on Vimeo.

This is a video by Gluko and Lennon - i like the simplicity to the characters and background. The story itself is really random which i love. I was laughing at most of it becuase its quite stupid, in a good way though.

3d character research

Week Plan:
Monday - Blog and research
Tuesday - Research
Wednesday - Research and come up with a story to do storyboard
Thursday - storyboard and 3d character mesh in cinema 4d

Meet Buck

Meet Buck from TeamCerf on Vimeo.

I really like this video because of the characters and the lighting. I like how they use different shadings to give effects of light and dark. It looks very well done. I also like the movements on the characters, it shows the emotions very well.

E4 Ident.mov

Another attempt at the e4 ident

This is another ident i did for e4. like mentioned in my other post i am leaving this for now to focus on the current projects.

Mushroom Trial

One of the trials i did for the E4 Ident on cinema 4d

This is a trial i did for the E4 Ident. I spent a few days trying out different endings for the logo.

As the competition doesnt close till July i am going to get the rest of the course work done first and then spend some time updating my ident.

Germalot Animation

This is the second animation we did in class. My anamatic was uploaded a few posts back. I hand drew the images and created the wallpaper and ground in photoshop.
The actual movements were made in Cinema 4d

This animation i feel could be alot better. I did what was needed to be done for the deadline but i think i could do so much more to it. Its a learning curve in regards to what can be done on cinema 4d. I enjoyed drawing out the images and also colouring them on photoshop. I can bring these skills forward in the other projects we are given.

My sound was a bit messed up, i know i can do better on that. I wasnt entirely confident on the sound to begin with, like adding the different sounds together. But after the project was done i had a bit more experience with the programs but bit late to change the animation. I know for next time!!

I am happy with the animation as i did what was asked in the brief. In regards to quality i am not 100% happy with it. I dont think its a particulary good animation but it my first year so i guess i shouldnt be so hard on myself. But its me so i will be, definitly need to be putting more time into researching things so i am better at the programs during the projects not after.

Morph

This is my morph - It is a rhino turning into a tank. I didn't have enough time to do a new one so i had to submit the one we did in class. I have however added a bit more to this, i opened it in photoshop and tried out a few techniques and added sound.

I enjoyed doing the Morph as its always neat to see movies where things morph and also other cartoons. It doesnt take too many frames to get the morph complete as well.

As i was drawing the frames it didnt really seem like it was going to look like anything as it just turns into lines and not an actual object. Once the frames were placed on dragon and the shots were taken it was actually a morph!! yes that sounds stupid because obviously its a morph, thats what the task was. I meant that it was cool to see the outcome of it and its quite a simple thing to produce. I took 4 frames of the first and last image and 2 frames of the middle images. I did this as i felt the first and last image morphed too quickly. I am happy with how it turned out especially after i went on photoshop and tried out a few techniques.