Show Reel....

Here is a few bits of my animation over the course...exciting or what :/

One day till hand in!!!!!!

Well after five hours sleep am back to work. I am waiting for the last ten seconds of the animation to render, it takes forever to render the bathroom scene because of all the textures and the stuff in the scene. While i'm waiting for that I'm going over my written work, glad i did because boy am I good at missing out words and spelling things wrong!

After rendering Sausage Man I need to do my show reels then put them on to a disk.

I am happy with how this animation has turned out for hand in, there are still things I need to add/amend which I have added a write up stating what I still need to change. Probably another days work to go on it, its just the rendering time that takes forever thats why i'm leaving it until after hand in. I could spend days going over every little detail if I keep being picky so I am telling myself its 'ok for now Linsey, just move on!'

My premier pro wont let me do widescreen though, when I change the settings to 1024 x 576 it goes to 91:36 or something like that instead of 16:9 which is annoying! I have to put it on animation and square pixels for it to work. Kind of sucks that it wont let me do the right settings :(

For my portfolio, again I need to change a few things but for hand in its ok, I got a little carried away with the commentary so had to add it to the folders instead of the portfolio itself. For final show I will be reprinting a few of the images because the fonts dont match on some of them and its going to niggle on me knowing that people are looking at it and they will pick up on the fact they dont all match. But like i said its too late now to reprint so am going to leave it for now.

Well enjoy the final night before hand in :D see you all tomorrow

really brain? really???

For some strange reason my brain decided, ooo one day left really to get this all done why not add an extra scene...oh ok then!! Ya thats right today I have spent all day working on two new scenes for the animation, i'm waiting for the second one to render, so I now have to change my script and reprint it. But on a good note it now means I dont have to stretch out teh bathroom scene, adding the new scenes has cut that one down which is good I guess.

After this is done I still need to mount my images, make the show reels, put everything on a disk. argharghargh.

Anyone know what time hand in is on friday? 1 I'm presuming? I'm hoping so because i need to reprint a couple word docs in the morning :/

I hope everyone is getting on well with their work and good luck :D

Animation so farrr

An update on the animation...

I managed to get the hallway scene and the beginning of the bathroom scene done today. I am not 100% happy with it but for the time being its ok, after hand in I will probably go through some of it to make it a little better for Star and Shadow. I might change some of the items in the bathroom to make it look more realistic.

It is taking a few hours to render which is annoying :/ 12 seconds took 3 1/2 hours. I was a little bored, I don't even have a printer so I couldn't print off some of the written work while i waited, would have been some what more interesting than twiddling my thumbs  :(

So at the moment I have 1 minute 25 seconds out of 3 minutes done. This is going to be a late night/early morning week me thinks.

Hope everyone has had a good bank holiday :D

My eyes sting but gotta keep on truckin

Well today I printed off a few of the images of Sausage Man and the guy at the shop was, how to do i say....clueless (thought I would write a polite word seeing as how others can see this blog!). I asked for certain ones to be printed and he starred at them for a few moments and then went to print one, he opened it in Paint and then did something else weird to it and then pressed print and it came out all messed up and on two A3's. Then I was like erm can I please see a print preview, his reply 'what do you mean'. Later find out he is the manager, wow kid think you should stick to managing and shouldn't fill in for you staff in certain departments. Anywho, he obviously over heard me saying, all he has to do is click on one, press print and then the wizard comes up and you tick all the ones you want....cuz when i next looked at his screen that's what he did! Then was like ah that has worked. Silly sausage was he!

Anywho, after those lovely few minutes I went to see my family and my mam's new place, nice break playing with the kids and catching up since I've been a bit of a billy no mates the past little while. Now its work time, even though sleep looks pretty tempting I'm gonna have to do it. So today and tomorrows plan is to try and get more.


What is left to do:

• Go through the commentary for my work
• Print off all the written work I have done
• Animate
• Go through portfolio images
• Do show reels
• Mount stuff - am not a fan of this because every single one I have done so far (previous projects) messes up :/

Am getting excited now for the end results, i'm definitely in a better place than I was last week with my freaking out and stress levels being high but that's what happens when you have anxiety, just gotta deal with it :) 

What is left to do...

A little update........

Work Related

Character Boards - Done
Script - Done
Storyboards - Done
Anamatic - Done (even tho its crappy!!!!)
Live Brief - Done
Presentation - Done
What i've learnt this year - Done

Progression File

Skillset - Done
Further Education Research - Done
Competition/Festival Research - Done

Portfolio

Research on Portfolios - Some what done, added a post on blog about it
Commentary on work  - Done
Evaluation on work - on other work done but not yet for current project

Show Reels - Still to do

Final animation - still to complete (all timings sorted and what not...)

Just need to print all of the above!!!!!!!

Wow the past couple days have been busy, cant wait for sleep and relaxation!!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!!!!!!

Portfolio Websites

I have been looking at how to make a good portfolio and found a few website that give some good advice.

All of them say to have sketches, illustrations, drawings of figures, print samples and demo reels. A variety is definitly key.

These are some of the sites I viewed to get an idea on what to do...

http://www.design-training.com/computer-animation/a/building-your-computer-animation-portfolio.html

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/portfolios.htm

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=115698

apwcharacterdesign.blogspot.com/

http://hubpages.com/question/134309/whats-a-good-website-to-build-an-animation-portfolio-website-with

http://gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20896

Hope you find them usefull too :D

Progress and SWOT

Weeellll i'm getting motivated to get work done, the past couple days i've done quite a bit and am feeling less stressed. Had a bit of a moment the other day because I was overwhelmed by all the work that I hadn't done. As in I hadn't done anything apart from the actual animation, well even that I had only been reworking the first 28 seconds!!

So far I have completed the character boards, script, live brief write up, skillset, further education research, competition research, some of the write ups for my porfolio work, credits for the final animation and have printed off a few things. Was great going into the shop and telling him the pictures are in a folder called Sausage Man, he looked at me oddly haha.

Today I am finishing the anamatic and have one more storyboard to do, then the rest of the written work - research on porfolios, what i've learnt this year, evaluation on work. Its getting there!!!!!

Lastly FINISH THE ACTUAL ANIMATION!


STRENGTH: I have learnt a lot through this project and feel I am alot more confident in Cinema 4D, its my little friend now (well for the most part). My strengths are that I will have my work all done by Friday.

WEAKNESS: Although the work will be done, I don't think it is to the best standards that I can do. Leaving myself a week to animate half of the animation means I will not be happy with it. My weakness is my time plan on things.

OPPORTUNITIES: Having the band play this animation on their website and at their gigs to get my work/name out there. I can also enter it into festivals/competitions.

THREATS: I am not sure I will be completely happy with my animation by Friday. I also am not sure I will be entirely happy with my porfolio, i'm picky and I hope it doesnt look rushed :/

I leave you with Sausage Man!!

Animalz

A few characters I doodled over the weekend. They are more aimed at the younger crowd, I may make a short animation with them or was thinking I can use them as illustrations in a book too. I used to write loads of little stories when I was littler, all aimed for younger kids so I might make one for my nephews and niece and use these characters :)