Thursday - One day left in the week and our cut out animation has been rendered!!!

Hello again - Another update on the MTV Ident.

Today was another successful day. We animated the crab and exported that along with the cow and dog we did yesterday.

Tomorrow the plan is get started with the computer work! We need to clean up the animation and get them ready to composite. I think this will be the interesting part of the project getting more familiar with after effects and cinema 4d. I am looking forward to it, although animating the animals in cut out was pretty fun, moving the animals in random and wierd poses was a good laugh.

There is still the music to sort out but we know what we want so hopefully it wont take too long to get that done.

I think we are working well as a team so far. We are all pitching in with ways to improve the main idea and are all taking part, having our own tasks to do it is a 'group' project and not just one person taking over.

I think being in Simon and Pauls group is a great experience as its making us work harder and force us to make our work up to par(obviously not gonna happen in one project but a good start). It has also made us be a bit more creative and a bit braver with our ideas and the tasks we take on during this project.

Tooosday - Mtv Idents

Hello fellow campers,

Well it's day one of getting stuck in the group project. Yesterday we spent the day sharing our ideas and then picking one we liked. We have decided to go with animals and do this in cut out animation. We were undecided at first on 3d and cut out but this method seems to be more realistic with wanting to have it completed before the xmas holidays.

Today we plan on getting the characters drawn, cut out and then start the filming. The live footage will be provided to us by Simons brother, which will add another element to the project as its scenery from Sweden, so it fits in with our animal theme. We are going to do 'Farm', 'Water' and 'City' for our ththree idents and tie them all together.

I am looking forward to the end result of this as I think it will be pretty good. This project will get us more familiar with cut out animation, compositing and also a bit of sound design. (We have an idea for the soundtrack but we havent decided on who will do it and how it will be done).

Janey and I get the great jobs of cutting out and we are going to look for some sounds for the animals to use as inspiration.

Let the fun begin :/

Environment For Final Project

This is one of the rooms i have made on cinema 4d. Its far from done and the camera is way too fast but this is what i've done so far.

This is another test of the bedroom, again loads still to do but again, its just what i've done so far...the camera movements in this are to show the camera following the light from the window to the bed and then the camera zooming into the alarm clock..

Another ident

This is another ident I like, I like the simple characters.

MTV Idents

I am looking forward to this project as I have been interested in finding out how MTV does most of their idents. I am really happy with our group too, lets just hope we make something great :D

Here are a few of the idents I have seen and like...

This first one is a selection of MTV idents which are filmed in live action areas. I really like the mixed media used and think they are really interesting and make me want to learn how they do it.



The next one, i like how they have the shapes coming out and moving. I have actually used this video as reference for a past project as i like the idea of having the shapes. They can come out of buildings etc and end up morphing into an M.



In the third video i like the splashes of colour that appear.



This fourth video is of old mtv idents, i like the one with the M being a beard and the shaving cream creates the TV.

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.