new work

This is the shot after the first guard reach. he trying to reach the cerail box on top of the plinth. But he cant reach it without his grabber which is in the next shot. I am fairly pleased with this just need to add in a slight pause when he first reached out.




this is more or less the final version of this shot. might add some movement in his shoulders tho but might add that in when the rest of my shots are completed for this project.

Next up this week is finish of my shots still hopefully will start the breadbeard shots as they are very important to this film and so i will need to work on it well and to a high standard of finish.

Guard Reach shot

ok did this yesterday, will be working on it more today to fix his left hand maybe. Lewis seems happy with it more or less. After this shot is done today i will move onto one of my other shots. Hopefully will do a breadbeard one next.

MASSIVE UPDATE

^ this is shot 37 ( guard jets of down the isle and looks back quick scared lol. did this shot yesterday. i am pleased with it i timed it exactly to the animatic like i do with all my shots so it makes it easier for lewis when he puts it all together.




this is the shot were the guard looks up towards the cerial in shock at the cerial. hes so excited that hes seen it he must go to get it. This shot was done this week on monday i think. enjoy

more work coming

Patches in the air shot

I did this last week there are two different versions. i like the top one best. not sure if much will be changed in this shot now and i need to get on with the other shots.

weekly news

This week i got bad news that the dummy project had folded. Cant say i did not see this happening but was a big surpise to me when we are so close to the finish line. Some Members of the dummy team put in a lot of effort into that project, so it wasn't nice to hear it had been folded. How ever JB the Dummy team leader did say he might want to finish it over the summer which i wont want any part of because i will need to get my life in gear for its next stage and i just wont have time i don't think.

So now that's been cleared up all i have left to work on now is the pirates project, which is ok as i do have a lot of work still do on it mainly animation. I have also asked sarah varall if i can work on the gnomes project as well to do some character animation on a few shots. So hopefully i might get some work if they really get stuck for time.

Now back to the pirates project...................OHHH DEAR. lets be honest its the 23rd of april and i still have not seen one decent final renderd shot of this project yet. Other projects have been working on the look of the project for weeks now and have it perfectly set up with the lighting and stuff. We are not even at that stage yet and we should be by now as it would be nice if the pirates project looked as good as some of the other projects. We havnt even done tests in after effects yet to get the final look. its such a shame as this is going to hit us hard if we dont have this sorted out in the next 3 weeks!!. Other projects are all set now and just need to animate and render and thats it. oH and com-posit aswell.

Also lets not forget that we still have not got all the rigs ready yet or even tested them. patches is ok and works so thats fine. but the guard i dont think is done yet its close tho. breadbead is being done now but i dont no how long that will take. walker is not even rigged and weighted yet wtf?

ok the Micheal quirk situation is a shame we would have been miles ahead if the guy turned up into college and did what he was supposed to do....... which was rig the characters???? i think. One of the other main issues with the group is most days not all of us are in together. So only lewis really knows whats going on. Mu li and tom know a bit but confuse me sometimes with that is going on. there is a lack of communication between us all as everyone shows up on different days. Everyone is working on seperate things so we can sit together and see where we are all at. i think this is enough rant from me but this project will not get finished to its full potential unless things are sorted out next week before may. This project can get finished just not sure if we will get the time to get it how lewis may of wanted it to look.

patches wall hit finished!

Ok this shot is done now. I am happy with it Lewis wanted to change a few things. Such as removing the feet wiggle and I made his hands go up more when he slips down and make his head turn at the bottom and not at the top. I also added patches hair giggle when he flys through the air to give a sense of speed.

did some more on this shot today

i added some facial expression to patches today as he looks back at the camera quick. I Changed the arms slightly i think not sure tho. I am happy with this shot now and i will probably move onto one of patches other shots Wednesday. When this has the sound with it and the camera shake when he hits the wall i'm sure the viewer will like it =)