Argh

Not gonna lie i'm a little annoyed at cinema 4d right now. I was thinking it was me just being very picky and every time I render a scene I find SOMETHING that I dont like, the tiniest of things as in, oh the light needs to be half a cm to the right, but anywho, I have just waited about 45 minutes for the first 20 seconds to render and I made sure the cloth tags were sorted and guess whats happened......THE STUPID CLOTH TAG HAS NOT SET! argh. No way am I staying up cuz of the stupid pillow. This final animation is the bain of my life I swear, on a happy note I really enjoyed working on the Odd Co. stuff, i'm quite pleased with myself as I spent friday and saturday night doodling. Ya party cuz I havent been well so have stayed in all weekend, yea me, am cool! Sooo enough of my rant.

I cant not wait for this animation to be over so I can stop having little huffs at cinema 4D :D

Carrot Man

On Wednesday Paul showed Janey and I what he learned in the Cinema 4D workshop he went to in Pictoplasma, it was basically showing us another way to model hands and bodies. Here is the character I made...Mr Carrot Man :D

Littlest Pet Shop

While searching for some reference for the characters I have drawn I have come across the following collective bears..There sure are a lot of bears out there 

After drawing a few sketches my images were reminding me of a certain toy but I couldnt think of what it was. So I typed in animal toys and there is was Littlest Pet Shop, ah ha! that was what was coming to my mind when I was doing my sketches. So I here are a few images which I will be looking at while I do the final sketches of the animals I have done :D

I also was thinking back to previous characters I have done and I am going to try out some different things with things from my other sketch books :D

TIME PLAN!!

So yet again i'm ill today, my tonsils have decided to become the size of my head and grow razor blades so I cant eat or drink anything woo!!!

Enough about that though because its time to work work work. I'm gonna have to try and stay up later than 8 tonight to get stuff done ha.

Sooooo the deadline is in 15 days, woah! My mam just got here too so need to find time to see her between getting work done and getting the presentation complete.


By Monday:

• Complete Odd Co work - research on Odd Co., research on toys, sketches and 3d designs, 
• Written work - TRY and get that done as i've got all the info I just need to put it all together.

By Wednesday:

• Anamatic, Script, Storyboards, Presentation

By Monday 7th:

• Portfolio complete with write ups (I have started a blog with just my work and already wrote a bit about each piece so I can use those write ups/amend them a little).

By Friday 11th:

• EVERYTHING COMPLETE!!! - Reels, design for business cards, final write up about last 2 years 

By May 24th:

• Everything for final show completed (printed, put on boards and sort how i'm going to display it all).

Then am away on holiday for a week woo hoooo.

The inspiration from home, aren't they just the cutest :D

ENJOY THE STRESSFUL TIMES AHEAD EVERYONE!

Odd Co - Live Brief

I have been playing around on cinema 4D for this and also doing some sketches in my book. I havent made my decision yet on what one to choose but I have done this lil beaut...

Haus inspired by Berlin ha

Live Brief

I am looking forward to this live brief, not sure my ideas will make it big time but after Paul from Odd Co spoke about us creating toys a few ideas sprung into mind. I bought a new sketch book yesterday to get started on this, I will post the pictures once i'm happy with them. :D

one bit of advice im' telling myself: SIMPLE LINSEY SIMPLE!!! (that was for the design, not calling myself simple :/)

Water

A trial I have done on cinema 4D..One of my scenes takes place in the bathroom and I wanted to see if I could add water to the bathtub and see if it would look some what real so I tried out the random effector and noise material in cinema 4D and came up with this...


Its pretty short but was just trying it out.

Text on Cinema 4D

Few things from today from cinema 4D :)

New Blog

It may have taken me a few hours but I have made a new blog for professional use. I took out the research and random information. Its the same work as this blog but going to keep this one for college and the other one just for work :)


linseyelliott08.blogspot.co.uk

Its very very very similar to this blog, all i've done is added a 0 oooo so original haha.

Now for some actual work!!

Almost had a wee heart attack this morning thinking i had lost my cousins dog but he was standing at the door, he is massive and white so i'm a lil confused on how the heck i didnt see him!! He likes to stand at the door for some reason just starring into the back garden, weirdo. Also i'm a bit gutted because i cant go to my friends wedding this summer :( i'm suppose to be a bridesmaid for her and av had to email her today saying i cant go 1 because of money and 2 because of Uni. I dont really want to mess up my chances at the Uni so the family think its best i stick to the course (if i pass this one obviously!!!). Today i think i am going to create a new blog, with just work on it so i can add it to my CV as having the school one isnt really professional i dont think, with all my random notes and pictures of dogs haha. Enjoy your day everyone :D

Yes ANOTHER blog entry today, just thought i would post a few lil things i did today..

Title For Meeeeee

Trying to figure out a title for myself...I saw this technique on line and said outloud - aw cool! ya i'm sad and talk to myself so this is what I have done today... and with sound :)

I have been trying to find what i want for my animation and this is it!! but it doesnt have a tutorial so i will need to search more!! Another one which may help with the colours of the splines...dunno yet..but i like it..

OH MY GOD!! These two dogs are getting on great but i feel like they are children, telling them off every minute. My vocab since last night has been ROXANNE LEAVE JOS ALONE...and LIE DOWN! - the joys! Its funny cuz one minute they are best friends and then the next roxy just wants to play and jos wants no part of it, she's like the annoying younger sister.

Anywho, here are some pics from pictoplasma...

Its a dog, ooo la la! The pictoplasma screening/lecture pictures were taken by Janey...thought there wasnt any point in me taking them if we were sitting together and she kindly let me use them :)

Pictoplasma!

Back from Berlin and feeling 50% human again! The festival was great and really enjoyed the talks (and maybe a beer or two). Even though the trip was great, the ending wasnt, I have been ill for two days now! I thought the screenings were really good, especially the music video ones. I didnt do any of the workshops but watched the different stages of the felt monster and saw some of the lino cutting too. After being to this festival it has drummed it in my head a bit more that simple is better. The amount of times I keep trying to simple my ideas it just doesn't seem to work and then i get behind and then change the idea 100 times. Its good being back to normal life, my dog missed me which was great but now she is trying her luck and being a douche. So far today she has eaten her bed, been sick and keeps coughing up bits of her bed AND like always hitting my laptop so I cant go on it. And to add to that i'm babysitting my cousins dog tonight so i'm going to be up all night because he cries when he thinks he's alone, the size of him you would think he would be tough but nope he loves his cuddles. This is Jos

Compared to Roxy. Will upload pics of the talks etc once i get them uploaded.

a picture that summed up our trip...

So my last update i went on about how much of the work i was going to get done but guess what happend...yup thats right..Linsey got sick again!! I swear i have been more ill than healthy this school year! If its not my eyes, its my headaches, if its not the headaches its my stomach, if its not that its my back!! Argh. I was asleep pretty much all day yesterday :( grr. I am hoping i am ok for berlin, been to the chemist and stocked up on meds!! I am looking forward to the trip but i dont like planes so i am a bit nervous about that :/ and i've lost my ipod so i cant even be distracted boo hoo!! Well am trying to do some work today but my eyes and head are killing, we shall see what i get done :) Hope everyone is having/has a great Easter

Things that have inspired me recently

These are a few videos i've seen recently that have made me think - wow how do they do that!! haha, sad yes but its true. I think the beginning of this is amazing, how she is built like a robot. The effects are really good and I am going to look into how they did this and what they used to create the effect, i likes it! For this video it was the greyhounds that got me, again, going to see if i can find out what they used to make them. It looks like it can be done in Cinema 4d ooooooolala. I also like the big where they have the digital headphones and controlling the dogs with the digital computer. For this video its the backgrounds,i like the movements and designs.

Hello campers! Well after a weekend of dealing with the garden and eating way too much its back to the grind stone. I have a check list as long as my arm for things to do before year end! This week I plan on getting all of my PPD stuff done, I have access to a printer tomorrow so lets see if I can get it all done and organised by tomorrow so its printed and done! In regards to my animation I am happy with the first two scenes so I just need to do the final render of them, thats 27 seconds done. I know it doesnt seem like much but I am picky and go over things way too much. I keep changing my mind with how i'm going to put the scenes together but I am happy with how I am getting on. I need to sort out dancing splines, fun? sure :/ I then need to sort the lights for the hallway, the artwork for the hallway and the floor. For the bathroom I need to do lighting, and add towels and bottles of shampoo :) Then its ANIMATE SAUSAGE MAN TIME! In addition to this my mam owns a wedding business and asked if I could help her make a website and create some 3d designs for her to show people the rooms and decorations she has to offer. I am looking forward to doing that because I will have the images of all the vases/flowers/ribbons etc that she has and plus i've seen all her materials and the venues (seeing as how she did both my sisters weddings :D)so that will help in making me make sure its exact and looks real. I have been looking for companies to do work experience today as well, I found a few and the ones for 3d interiors look amazing, its hard to believe how real they make the images look, lighting is great! The dog has attacked me once so far today because i've been on the laptop, i've distracted her with food so its onto coffee number two and let the work commence!! Enjoy your week everyone and see some of ya bright and early next tuesday!!!