its all finished....... well not quite yet

so yesterday i handed all my work in and the same with everyone else in my class. it was ok doing my folders i just wish i had worked harder in the first term to do some more decent concept work. but i knew that the first term was always going to be my weakest as i prefer doing the 3d parts of the project rather then 2d. i also wished i could have had more compositing for my technical folder, and let me just be honest..... i would have if we got some renderd shots out that i animated!. because the only ones that got renderd was lewis, toms, and that was it so they will get higher marks becuase they got some of theres renderd.

if i had managed to get some of mine renderd then it would have helped my folder alot. this is not just me tho same with ash, muli neil and also second years aswell. Ive had some ups and downs this year with some minor personal problems which was a huge shame for it to have to happen in my final year lol..... wish it happened in the first year. however i did to be honest step up my game in the the second part. i updated my blog alot like dan told me to do. i did lots of animateing and i also made sure i was doing something at college.

i do still enjoy animating and would like to maybe go into that possibly now that i have finished, same with moddeling maybe but its still rather weakish. others in class are alot better then me at that.

i loved working with the team was great fun. i never worked with lewis or tom or muli and they but in so much effort into this project its un true. lewis always keeps going muli is like a work horse same with tom they just keep going! no matter what.

oh yeah forgot to mention the dummy project.......... well lets just say that it was a comeplete waste of my time and i could of done more work in that time for pirates project, dummy was a complete waste of time but well that history now so never mind.

jb is a lovely funny guy. just wish he stop jabbering on and just get down with whats needed and stop asking questions lol. but yes he did in the end get some work done for the pirates project.

ash did sooooo much texturing he did the entire dummy room and did alot of pirates aswell. neil did some of the best animation he has done while at ravensbourne

others needed to show up more and let the entire pirates team down which could have helped us get done for mark in but never mind i wont name names, they know who they are. but no fuss its over now..

but......... we still need to finish for the degree show. i will not stop coming into college until this project is all renderd out. the music sound story is fantastic and the shots that are lighted and renderd just show this film is to good not to finish. so hopefully people will help us in the next weeks to get it all done. we need to render our 10 shots a day to do it and we will all this time need to help light some shots.

oh yeah for my animation folder i renderd out one of my shots the bread fire one just to show what it might of looked like renderd out rather then a playblast. the final render will look alot better with all the texttures.

pirates is still easily one of the best films in the class. i havnt seen any others all fully comeplete yet however. we where the underdog group with the least strongest people and have rised above all.

i have had a great and fun 3 years at ravensbourne will be sad to see it go and not walk down its paths no more soon but its not time for me to start my next chapter in life and see where i go next.

oh and whacked team helped us aswell with advice and after effects rendering and stuff too which was nice

anyway see you all next week and hopefully this pirates will be seen in its full glory at the rsa degree show very soon.....

a bit of composoting

this week i helped mu li add in the bottles into the super market environment. the bottles will be renderd on a separate layer from the main animation. once the bottle layer is renderd we can add it onto the blank shelves in aftereffects. I have seen some initial tests of this from mu li and it does work and looks quite good i must say.

How ever when you had to many levels of bottles into a scene it just crashes maya, even on my mac it goes really slow and crashes out. I think it is because of the environment we have is really big and with so many bottles maya just cant handle it. So with this problem what i have to do is export the bottles out on there own and render them separate so that it don't crash.

hopefully today i can render out one of my final animated shots and composite it fully in after effects for one of my folders for hand in. But i cant render one of my shots until Mu li or someone..... has done the lighting. maybe ill give it a try today???

shot 22 final version

some more tweeked shots

did some slight tweeking to these shots on the friday just passed.

more animation tweaking

the breadbeard fire shot i just wanted to change his sword a bit, as i didnt like the old one where it kinda twists at the end. other then that i did not change anything else.




changed this shot a little. with his head and arms making them flutter a bit more.



changed the way his head rotates in this shot, i think it looks better now so im happy.

overall all its strange going back to my shots. and its hard making them better as im the one who did them anyway. so its sometimes hard for me to spot areas that need to be changed. when someone comes over tho like lewis or tom and tell me what needs to be adjusted then that helps a lot in making my animations better for this film.

tweeking shots 2 and patches in the air shot

today i spent my day mainly tweaking shot 2 where the guard drinks his can and throws it behind him. i think its better then what i had done originally at least. after i did that i re worked patches flying in air. i got rid of all the old mouth key frames and kept it more simple and changed the way his head moved so that it was not such massive movements but more subtle . i also flapped his feet to as hes flying through the air.

new animatic playblast done today

Lewis today spent his time making the new animatic with all the new scene playblasts. it was really good when i watched it gave me and the others in the group alot of new hope that his film has the potential to be really good and one of the best no doubt. We just need to fix some minor stuff in some of the shots, like polish of some animation mainly and it will be fine but that needs to be done this week max. we also still need to render of which we still havnt got one shot renderd out yet.

muli sent a render yesterday but it failed as the texture resolution is to high i think and that is why the render farm is crashing. i have to fix my sip shot scene which i will do Wednesday. i still dont think this film will be renderd for marking maybe half of it maybe...... But for the show we should get it all done i hope. the sound guy has the final animatic now so he can do all the sounds for it now which is really good.


i would upload the animatic on here but its in a mp4 file type so it wont work =( i could change its format but it will loose even more quality so theres no point. when the final one is renderd ill post it up here asap