The final project......where is my motivation!!!

So I am really excited for the outcome of the year end project. I get days where I bursts of engery and then other days where I try but just nothing seems to get done, like today.

We had presentations yesterday and today to get us ready for our January presentation. I havent done mine yet and I dont really want to do it as I am not good with standing infront of everyone and talking through my idea.

I dont even have my walk cycle done for my character, hold on a second....oh yes, thats because the character isnt rigged yet!!! I really need to pull my finger out and make this animation the best thing i've ever done.

I have come up with another idea too. My animation is about Squegg who is going to go through his morning routine in the style of a music video. My other idea i had was inspired by the car ads that have animations following the cars. I thought I could add designs when he takes his steps and also there could be designs as he is getting ready. This will add more to the scene.

I have looked up ways of doing this and found a tutorial online which involves cinema 4d and photoshop. It says to create a spline in cinema 4d and add colour etc and then save it and open the file in photoshop to outline it and add the shading. It looks pretty cool, so i will give that a go and will post my results.

I need to do soooo much for this project and instead of talking about it I should really get on with it. This winter weather does not have motivation attached to it! Lets see how much I get done with the next two days off.....to be continued!!!!!

Inspiration for final animation

I have found a video, finally!! (Thanks to good ol' Janey!!). I wanted to use this technique of animations on buildings for my final animation to make it more interesting. Its also an excuse to learn how to do it because I love these commercials.

I found the other one I was on about through Vimeo.

Nissan Qashqai from pleix on Vimeo.

Stop animation

While looking for animated car ads I came across this video. It is stop motion, 2072 photographs. I thought it was really good.

Enjoy!

Final Film

This is our group project we have been working on. In our group we had Josh, Rachel, Ross and myself.

I think its turned out quite good and so did everyone elses that we watched today.

We have a few more weeks to build up on this video which i think will be beneficial as am sure we can improve in some of the scenes.

Group Projects.....
On monday we were given a brief for our first group project. I wasnt too keen on group work as I remember the second years (last year) had a few issues with people not pulling their weight. As the weeks gone on i'm surprised at how we are getting on with the project and everyone is getting on with their parts.

We havent really made a sheet with who's doing what as we get together a few times during the day to talk through our ideas and what we can work on and how we are getting on. Its good because we are all taking in eachothers ideas and also helping eachother out to expand on the whole animation.

I am having some issues this weekend though with my part as i am suppose to be making an alpha of the green screen videos and also rotoscoping an image but the videos wont open on my laptop so i'm not happy with that result. I am trying again but if it doesnt work then i feel a bit crap that i'm not gonna have it done for monday.

In our group we have Rachel, Josh, Ross and myself. If it turns out the way we are planning then its going to be a good animation!!!!!

So far we have taken pictures of areas we think will work well for our animation, we have taken green screen videos of one of the zombies, storyboards, research on ideas and imagery, and also played around with after effects and photoshop to zombify images. Next week is the filming and putting it all together.

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Group Project

Well here is our group project from Friday. We were given an hour to come up with an idea for pixalation and then film. We tried out the idea twice, ending up with Magical Chairs. In our group was Zoe, Josh, Emma, Ashley, Connor and myself. I think the final result is good, especially when Connor sorted the sound :D