This was a nice project to work on and I really enjoyed learning the technique of film making. Its a little dark (literally) so you may need to close the curtains and turn the lights off to watch it in its full glory!Heres the documentary:It was a good team to work with and I'm happy we saw this idea through from conception to completion. I have learned many skills from this which will come in useful for animation and film production. As a director, it was a bit tricky at first as there were a lot of people in our crew but I felt more comfortable...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Ryan and I handed in our project last night a bit last minute :I have to say that despite all our efforts - it is not of the standard I was hoping for. In the future we must be clear of when the deadline is early on and plan in contingency days. I think we could have used at least 2 - 3 extra days on this to overcome the following problems:- The fire (which appears to look like a cloud following the bin.) - The bin also appears to judder as its rising up - perhaps this could have been edited out or made smoother in Maya. - Rotoscoping to loose...
Monday, 14 March 2011
Alex has now got me earmarked for post production and handed me some footage of a nice and not nice latte being poured. My job is to make the background transparent so he can place a nice wooden texture underneath it. This has been made easier by the blue paper Alex layed down under the latte but still had some minor challenges. The blue reflected onto the mug so I couldn't key it out completely and ended up having to animate several garbage mattes...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
So the battle between Polys and Nurbs continues..(wow! a slightly geeky comment there.) I think as a result of my efforts today I have realised Nurbs are far more efficient for this ship in terms of speed of getting them made, and quality of the result.So first, I completed the Polygon ship as much as possible. While it looks fairly good, I was sure that Nurbs would end up looking smoother. Pictured at the top here is my latest update on the Polygon...
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
I have been working on this quite a bit over the last week. First, I looked at the animatic to figure out the timing of the actual shooting of the bins to allow for the animation that would take place. I drew this scene plan that helped when it came to filming - a birds eye view of the scene showing camera movement with the timing:Then on a nice sunny morning, we got down to the bins for filming. There were a few minor issues - cloud cover that kept...
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