new lip sync test for pirates

heres another test i did today in college which took 2 hours-ish. i am fairly happy with it. but again this is just a test to help give me the training again for when i do the final real thing with the proper characters. This again had no work done on the line graph just like the one i did before. not bad tho....

tomorrow i am using the finished patches rig for pirates to start 2 of the final scenes.

1. patches hitting wall ahead of him
2. patches flying through the air.

First lip sync test for pirates project

ok so i managed to do this test in just over 2 hours!!! not bad i rekon. Ive still got it!!!! well i think i do if i get a few days to polish of a shot like this. Please note this test was just to test my skills again at lip sync!. This was not a test to show of character animation skills!!!. Lewis seemed fairly happy with it for the time i did it in and was more impressed with it then what the second years did and they had like 4 days i think and were still not up to the standard which lewis is wanting which is fair enough. This is breadbeard talking anyway i really like the voices in this film and cannot wait to do some more tests for my folder. On the final one i do i will obviously spend alot more time on the movement and actions of the character in this scene to make it really special for the film. But at least this test has shown me that im still not a bad animator and can defently bring something to the table. =)

assets complete for pirates!

ok i have finished the last 2 assets that i was assigned to do. i am very pleased with them both. the small bottle took me a while to master as i have never modeled one before. The big bottle did not take that long tho because i was much quicker at it which was good. the red bottle hasnt been smoothed yet but it looks good when it's smooth. i left it UN smoothed so it would be easier for ash to uv map as that is what he asked me to do.

so now what im doing next is using the max rig to start lip sync test's for the pirates project. i have my shots ready to animate for dummy just need to start that next week so all is ok at the moment.....

targets for this week!

had a meeting with Dan Dali yesterday which really helped me a lot and gave me some focus towards what i need to do if i want to see myself get through this last year at college. i have set my self a deadline for this Wednesday which is:

COMPLETE ASSETS FOR PIRATES PROJECT

And for next Tuesday i need to have done a lip sync test for pirate project using another rig such as the max rig which lewis will give me. but i will be lipsyncing an actual shot in the film so i can to test my skills again as its been a while since i last did lipsync.

i will also need to talk to jb this week to see what he wants me to do over this week and next week. for the dummy project

Dummy walk cycles

ok so here is 3 quick play blast tests of the dummy in a walk cycle. Ash did the female walk cycle and i did the male one. now the first one is the worst one that was my first attempt the second one is better and the 3rd one is a more sad depressed one which is what jb wanted. Now i wouldnt say im really happy with these walk cycles but i did the best of what i could with jb's rig which has its problems and restrictions. Now jb has improved the rig since the first test walk i did, but its still far from being really nice to use. for example the elbows always pop out when you move them around which is really anoying. the legs where on an ik handle i think and when moving them about you couldnt really do much with them or put them into many poses as it messed up the rest of the body position. Also the foot it self could not bend but jb has since fixed these issues that i brung up but i need to test his new rig to see what its like.

cola bottle for pirates project

this is the cola bottle so far. i still need to do the cap at the top and finish the bottom. but so far so good. will finish this today i hope =)

more pirate assets

Here is the high poly apple i modeled which i am really pleased about it looks really good i think. The other object is a stand that might be used for the fruit to sit in but that is not been fully decided yet i dont think.