patches flying out from cannon

did this shot yesterday. I am leaving this for the moment how it is. Lewis can sort out the final camera angle and stuff. This was not a hard shot to do just annoying because my graph editor kept bugging out so i couldn't edit the curves =(

patches shooting out of the cannon

started this shot on monday. its way to fast. but this is just an early test so far. i gave lewis all my animation play blasts so far so that he could put it together with the rest of the play blasts, so that lewis could send it to the sound guy to get the final sounds done. All this week i am finishing of my animation shots, not sure how many i have left i might have to check. but i would like to go back to some of my shots and possibly polish them of a bit. Or so some other work to fil up my 3 folders.

Breadbeard fire finished

finished this on friday at the end of the day. i am happy with this now and so is lewis and the rest. if i get time to come back to this shot before we render i might change the path of the sword. but at this time i just dont have enough time.

This week coming i am working on more shots. patches coming out of the cannon is my next shot, so i will update the blog on monday on how i am getting on with this shot.

breadbeard_fire final

finished this shot today. its taken me two college working days. I am happy with it, just need to see what Lewis thinks of it. With a bigger resolution this looks a lot better!.

New guard animation

^^ this shot is finished now and final



this shot is work in progress

progress update

well its bank holiday Monday today today and the college is closed. =(. But work continues on, so its the 3rd of may. only a few weeks left now i think its just under 4 weeks left til the deadline. all characters have been textured now. breadbeard is rigged and all that is left to rig now is walker. Tom and mu li left him last as hes not in many shots so was a good idea to leave him last. Now ill be honest with people looking on my blog. we honestly need to have this project renderd out by the 22nd of may at the latest!!! other wise we wont get enough time to make his film look good in after effects or get all the sounds at the best they can be. I am honestly so worried that we wont get this renderd out til the last minute and the final look of the film suffers because of it. No people are working very hard on this project at the moment and i am sure in these final weeks people will be fireing on all guns. lewis has been working exremely hard and has been doing parts of the project that he was never ment to have done. Some people still have not been turning up which is a shame as we really need everyone to be in to give all there input. we have the advantage that we have most people working on this project yet we dont utalise our group properly and its not well organized. Tom has done some really nice animation tho aswell as neil, hes working very hard. I just really dont want to his this project fall flat on its face. The story and characters and artwork is so nice and easily the best by no means. I said to lewis that we sould just make this film really fun and make the audience that watched it really happy. And lets be honest if our project never gets finished then its going to make the show even more boring. Gnomes project and red rock also im worried that they might finish but not up to the stanard that they also wanted. so it wont be nice if no one gets the projects looking ready and finished for the show as it would be such a shame. =(. So hopefully the pirates team can pull together these last weeks and really make this film good. also forgot to add jb has been doing a nice job with the electrocution shots.

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.