weekly progess report and next week tasks

so this week i started animating one of my shots for the pirates project which was going to be a final and finished version. I also started some of the Dummy project block out shots. Today i am starting a essay for one of our other projects called PPD so i must do that today as it needs to be in by Monday!.

Next week i have to show Lewis one of my finished shots which is when patches hits the wall so see if hes happy with it for me to move onto my next shot which will be when patches is flying in the air. I also next week will be working on more of the block out shots for the dummy project. When all my block out shots are done and jb is happy with them i can move on to getting them properly done and animated.

Overall i am fairly happy with the work that i have done this week. I don't think time has been wasted and next week i hope to get more work done at a good quality level =)

patches wall hit (final)

Ok same 3 shots, but each slightly different with the legs and head, tell me what one you prefer. I like the last one best as his head don't turn til much later.

Dummy block out shots (scene 3)

ok so these are some of the block out shots for the Dummy film. I did these yesterday and they are fine for what we need so far. Everyone is also working on there block out shots in the group. Once Jb is happy with them we can move onto the next part of the animation phase

tasks for this week.

ok so this week i need to finish of the shot of patches hitting the wall for a final version for Lewis. Then sometime this week hopefully Thursday i can do some animation for the dummy project to yay =)

everything so far is more or less going well. Just need to put my foot down and get the work done and to a standard that will do my peers and college proud!

Patches hitting wall new

ok so i started this today after lunch. This will be the final time i do this shot. all i have done it patches hitting the wall nothing else yet. No slide or anything. Please tell me what you think so far.

patch flying shot (test)

did this today, another test lol. In the final version i would change the mouth so it don't change so early. I would also probably make the arms spaz out more up and down. Hopefully will start the final shots beginning next week if all the chars are ready.

patches hitting the wall shot. (test)

same shot but 3 different angles for you to see. I did this yesterday took me 3 hours i think. This was the first time i used this rig. It's pretty good there are some problems of course such as you cant stretch out his arms and legs much or the models skin goes funny. Lewis said when you key frame this blendshapes you cant see the keyframes on the time-line which is annoying when we come to lip sync this character. Tom said he would try fix this and also add a wobble deform-er for patches hair.