I promised I'd put these up

Heres a few reference images we were using in our project.... Sorry I didn't put them up sooner :p

All done

All rendered.... all handed in....all finished.
We made a dvd cover and everything. Masking took a long time but it got a good look out. The snow looks nice and the lighting is just about right. Possibly change a couple of things looking back but in general I think the edit I did with the sound works really well and goes in time quite well. Really enjoyed working with Matt throughout this project as I knew he was reliable and a good animator. The animation in each of the shots were done realyl well by him (all his work) I didn't need to animate anything except for the transitions and effects (eg smoke and snow). We came together at the start of this project with BIG thoughts and BIG plans... I think we did pretty well at achieving these and I duno about him but I thought we did a great job :) Nice one Matt. Was a pleasure.

Alley Scene

Rendered it now... its very late...well early actually.
Effects in. I'm tired. Bed. now.

Final Transition

Think thins could work.... figured finishing on white would be more appropriate considering the tag line we are using. Post and let me know what you think. Can't alter at uni.



please note... it actually finishes with white...not a white dot. I juts cut down the render too far for the preview :P

Thats What I Thought...

Matt and I have progressed well and today we got the well done from Jared however he did bring something to our attention that only a fresh pair of eyes would notice which was to do with the lighting. Our character, Jim, was very dark in his snowey scenes and this REALLY didnt make much sense and the light is often bounced RIGHT back up off the snow and therefore we have been tweaking our shots... its never too late
A lot of things have been going wrong ALL over the place. A lot of them have been fixed and a lot of them we've thrown all caution to the wind and just said "we'll get it in Post"... and we really have. All the snow, most the lighting, grading, transitions, skyies.... all done in Post. And the snow trail, snow being kicked up etc... all in post. This project has really been keeping Matt and I busy in the post production stage as each render comes hot off the press we are immediately tweaking pretty much the whole shot and creating a whole extra lil something special :)
Have enjoyed it.... and theres ONE NIGHT LEFT!

bloggy bloggerson

Just an idea... that I dont think we'll use to be honest but hey. nevermind :p. Was just an idea of the lines CHasing the character before he gets to the final slope :p

Matt....

changed my mind...I'm not fixing the glitching...you can 2mr if you want....but its WAYyyyyy too much effort for me 2night lol

Fixed

Just noticed the mistake of the lines into the darkness....fixed now...



ta da...i hope lol
let me know what you think it needs.... etc.

One Of the last?

Just put a fade at the end as well Matt....
Was thinking if I do the TGAs 2night I could have that shot finished and rendered away... only I can't render at Rave as I dont hav trapcode (meaning I'd hav to render 2mr afternoon/night back at mine again)... so will make a start on some of the tgas.

The Final Countdown

So here we go. The deadline is coming up quickly... but are Matt and I worried.... not.....THAT much...just a lil bit....well..... we think we'll finish.... pretty sure we will...... but anyway here's the list of whats going down over the next couple of days in more detail!!!

Matt's DREADLINE (DREAD THE DEAD!)
Wednesday night -
Finish Alley Animation TONIGHT!
Dvd cover (I'll bring one tomorrow)

Thursday Day at Rave -
Landing Transition Animation FINISH before 3pm
MPP (microsoft Project) bits and bobs
Re-Back Up HD's On each others.

Thursday Night after Rave -
Record Audio and sort the sound out once and for all (if you can think of anything else let me know.

Friday Day -
Audio and compilation by Mid-day!


My Line of the Dead!
Wednesday Night -
The Finale transition finish with lines and maybe some more snow?
Go through and fix the tga's involved within the final shot so they no longer glitch... oh what joy :(

Thursday Day
Render the Alley shot now Matt has finished animating it.
Transition for the Alley can also be rendered after 3pm when Matt finishes it.
Approval Dvd cover and mutual agreement
Graphics/Grading
Slope down hill blend shapes

Thursday Night
Smoke within the alley and MORE MASKING!!!
Final render of alley

Friday Day
Compositing check sounds and final BIG render.
Burn Dvd Midday!

Another One

Yeah.... matt and I are on a ROLLLLLLLo :)

Please note - the sky has been DE blued slightly :D

Latest And loveliest :) (thanks stu)

Stu helped with this title here :) spelling :D haha.
This is the animation by Matt and effects (not done yet) by me... had to render out a few different lighting situations considering the snow lost quality in BUMPiness with the stronger lights... but now ... all fixed :D

We will revise the timing for this shot later today - seems too floaty at the beginning.

Update On the Update

Just another Idea of things that could happen for this transition.
Will be good to see what Matt has now he's finished it.

Note to Matt - Have you completed the Run/first transition into the Snow... as we could get that rendering Tuesday Morning? What do you think? Let me know ta. Got work 2night just so you know but other than that should be around for talking.

The Use Of Words In Animation

Classic. Found this whilst doing me-'ol contextual...which I just finished by the way. Went over by a little bit but I'm just glad it's actually over. This isn't directly related but I kinda liked it... was kinda weird and wonderful :p... crazy lil idol dude and his Jam :D

Back On The Ball

So I've done a little work today which I'm happy to actually be doing as I've still got Contextual Looming over me which is annoying. Hopefully I'll sort that out over the weekend. Even though for some reason the deadline reads 8.30am Monday morning and Kieron said we'd have until midday. Not sure if everyone knows about this or if we'll be able to upload after 8.30am but I'm guna get mine in before just in case. Saves all the EHoo-HA Monday when people are trying to upload and it wont let them (maybe!)

Anyway this transition. I'm thinking it needs to be less glow - possibly swap the glow to the first part of the effects and then have it come into normal. Got a few more ideas as well for this (this was the Maya and AE version) going to try the AE only version which could work better ... more Free....but meh. Anyway. I'm going home as I'm tired. :(

What Have I been doing!?

Contextual studies - simple as. Not only have I had to prepare for the presentation with a load of images set up and think about what I was going to talk about (I think it went ok) I have been again neglecting this project as I've been swamped with Contextual fever - The essay which according to Kieron, should have been prepared a long time ago and sorted out already... is hard to write when he doesn't really specify a target to write towards. No goal... I seriously don't recall getting a copy of the brief which is a ***** but hey. I searched moodle but only found the CVA Contextual upload point for 2008. Hope thats the one we are supposed to be working with and uploading too. I've nearly finished it now but the whole Contextual project this term has been an outrage to put it lightly and Mr Dennis had the nerve to have a go at us for not being in the room and set up when he waltses in the CVA lab yr 2 room 20mins after 10. If we HAD of been prompt and started we'd have to start again for him being the tutor. Not only was he rude to each individual while we were setting up and preparing but he also had his phone on loud and recieved text messages a number of times whilst students were presenting. Contextual Studies this term has really annoyed me. I understand there is a need for it in our curriculum to broaden our horizons however I feel that rushing something in the last two weeks of the year is not the way to go! Especially when everyone else has two attempts at doing a presentation (moving image I believe) and are now practising disertation writing I feel that we may see the outcome of this next year as our disertations the quality which they should rightfuly have....
Animating has been put on the back burner yet again... which really annoys me. I want our piece to look pretty good and due to this contextual work we have had to sacrifice yet again.

ROA Update

What a success. The team really pulled together with Phil's Branding and character, Sarah running Dan G around and me spending money which I shouldn't have been we all came together and managed to get the exhibition up in time for the 4th June. Got a lot of interest as well. I felt I was being pretty demanding on the front line of getting people inside our room by literally stopping every person with a green pass walking by and asking them if they had seen the showreel yet but I had to let people know we were there. Well done Tom for thinking up the Sandwich board even though it really didn't sound like a good idea straight out.... it really did work as it caught peoples eye. Animators would do almost anything to get noticed :p I suppose but yeah it worked so I'm very happy the guys chose to chase it up and put it together. I know everyone played there part and some opportunities may come up due to it ... possibly from the guy from Last man standing which Phil and I met, first in the libary and then second time I grabbed him when he walked past to tell him about animation...
All in all... the show was really well put together, even if it seemed a little last minute due to broadcasters and we didn't really have a layout as such to follow as Dan was busy with the showreel - which really looked fab mind you... the guys did well on that. Grigsby did well, the team did well - Dalli and Jared were both around when we needed which was cool and Mike cheers for the preperation eg foam board funding and print credits.

CVA really came together and last night showed how the entire college came together as a whole to become RAVE ON AIR. Good show by all departments and I personally had a really good time. Elaine ... oh dear... few too many ....but hey it was worth it!
:D