THe ROA Show Looms

I'm not guna lie.... I've been not doing any of this Burton Project as its been put on hold for Rave On Air and Showreel Business which has very pressing deadlines which are a fair bit closer. My showreel I hope to have playing on a computer in Emerald I'm constantly working on and hoping that my third attempt will work better than the pixellated first two. The way I've got around this occuring is in fact using a different program altogehter. Originally using Dvd Studio Pro... which seemed REALLY easy and simple to use I found the resolution of the menus just seemed to mess up and the video transitions were as clear as day. So quite annoying after rendering it and burning it twice hoping it'll work. Third attempt will using in the process using Encore. Other than struggling with software myself and Phil have been aiding Dan Grigsby with the ROA Animation Exhibition. I think we've helped out a fair bit in trying to print posters and getting peoples work in and buying foam board etc for the show.

Pressure is on...

I'm sure that everyone is feeling the pressures of the deadlines this week. Not only do we have a Rave On Air Deadline to meet (which Matt and I are still pushing for but its looking more and more doubtful as problems keep cropping up) we also have a PPD submission for Friday which I spent my Bank Holiday and this evening doing. ALSO have to prepare stills for the exhibition and prepare a dvd showreel for the exhibition.... and on top of all that my showreel dvd is REALLY complex... so its going to be a LONG week for me I think. In other news we had a Lighting tutorial lecture with Sultan today which was quite benifical in some ways and in others he reiterated what I already knew. ... You win some you lose some. As for this Burton Project. I believe we could do it. I've been working on the transition again. Attempting a complete fade to white this time... Think it works better however I'll really have to see what camera angles and what animation I get to play with after Matt has rendered the finished run and snowboard away form the camera in the second shot.

Time is of the essence my dear Watson!



still only using masks though in After effects and a cheeky lens flare that isnt really visible lol

Try...Try....TRY AGAIN!

putting it bluntly... I was annoyed at the first attempt and couldn't stop thinking about it...so tried again!!! Here we are now... at another attempt I think this one is better than the first... coz the first just made me wanted to cry it was so appauling.... theres clearly room for improvement ... I definately know that...but I think something like this COULD work...COULD.....possibly tweak the footage earlier... slightly before the jump...but hey...we'll see how it goes :p

Really not too happy with this...

Yeah so this is by far one of the worst things I've tried to do so far... It could easily be better..but I'm nakrd to tell the truth... been working on my work for the year 2 show at ROA... Eugh. I think I might give it a rest for tonight. Going to have a fair bit to show at the show though I think it all goes to plan :D

Transition....

As you can see it SORT of nearly works without anywork....well....not really....it'll look 10x better if I can achieve the look I'm going for ... lol

Newer....Slightly Improved Render...Maybe?

So this time I added the extra light... and pushed the camera back a bit so it TURNS...otherwise we'll be looking upside down...and it just wouldn't have worked AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! lol But yeah...looks vaguely better I feel...will work with this for now to do a couple of examples of transitions for Matt.

Lighting Bad...Animation Bad.... PUrrrrFect

Yeah.....Bad animation done here so I can play around with the idea of a transition before Matt gets there with the animation (please note I really wasn't trying to animate... so it is AWEFUL! haha.... I've decided to re-render with an extra light to light the character slightly more as this is SOOOOoooo Bad..... yeah...ahem. New render coming up soon.

Jump 02

This is the second to last shot of our animation. Quite happy the way its turned out actually. Just need a bit of animation on it... might put some snow on it providing there is time... also don't pay any attention to the trees as these will be sorted out in 'post' providing there is time. If there is not any time before ROA I will definately do it for the final submission of this piece :D

Ms Project Update

As you can see from the project I've cut a number of things such as Approval from Burton etc as we are seriously lacking time. Matt and I have been having ups and downs throughout the day so far.... a loss of a file as Matt saved over a walk cycle... wasn't a major loss but obviously nothing great. The environment is getting better and better as I continue to work on shots. Still more to do though on both our parts unfortunately... will be glad when RAVE ON AIR is gone and done.

Final Jump Image

Alley Render

Ok...not sure if this will work considering its only 2MB apparently .... or maybe my Mac is being a bit special in its old age.... think I might get a new bad boy soon ...over summer maybe? yeahhhhh :p

Bigger Shot

Its getting there....still.... slowly. More to be done still though. Ach!

IronSky

Just loving the concept work of Ironsky right now..Cheers Sam....
Iron Sky.net :D

Matt Finished? HARDLY

Matt finished the Rig today... means hes done right.... HA...yeah right... now he's animating... we both are here and there from now on. Looks as though he's done a good job on the rig though which will help us when animating our DUUUUUDE. Time is of the essence however I believe Matt and I are beginning to doubt meeting the Rave On Air deadline as are many of the groups what with the other project for Dan Dalli going on as well and different renders taking up time!!! We'll have to see how the end of this week pans out. Think its going to have to be a late one on Friday for me as I have work all evening Thursday - UBER LAME! Eugh....

Getting There

Yet another Image for the Blog

Been playing around with the light fog etc for a while now and getting the lighting in the back right... this is what I've got so far.

Shot is getting there

Its taking a while but I think its worth it. Been tweaking the lights this morning along with some tweaks of the set.... barely noticeable but the subtle things are what always makes a good render :D

Not TOTALLY Related

Ok so this isn't exactly to do with this project but I just thought I'd mention it - today we had a really good lecture from Peter about how to use Studio Pro to create a DVD and I think we are all set to make a showreel DVD for Double D's Unit. I'm happy. The morning probably would have been enough but I'm glad we had the afternoon as well with him to chuck a few questions on how to do a few other bits and bobs such as slideshows etc. Took a lot of notes and BOY am I glad :D

New Character for BG scenes

Just altered all of Matts hard work in an attempt to create some background characters to cheer him on. Not entirely sure on if we'll use him but it would be nice if I could do a few more (as they will be so small it won't matter too much as long as the silhouette isn't too samey.

Another Test .Mov

Annnnnnnd with the smoke I created in After Effects.



Put this together in about 30 mins however its not perfect but hopefully if I have time I could get a nice render out for the final thing :)

ps...textures etc missing as I sent it to vanguard and just wanted a quick result to see if the AE was possible how I thought it was.... it was apparently but still quite difficult.