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

shot 14

did this shot today really quickly for lewis for the sound guy. took me around 3 hours i think. its pretty good and im happy with it. so ive put it on a drive now for lewis. i am getting better with animation i think becuase ive done so many shots for this project which i am really happy about.

guard sip shot (2)

started this shot friday. its not finished tho. will try finish it of today and do shot 14 as well which was ment for pual bates to do, but hes no longer working on this project so i will do it.

I think in total i will have done 9 or 10 shots for this project. i am happy with the amount i did. they all ranged in hardness, but i think i coped well with them and got them all done in a good time frame for lewis. lewis needs all the playblasts and maya files so that he can put them all together in premier for the sound guy for monday.

How ever i have a horrid feeling that not everyone will upload all there complete shots for lewis today and will put the project over schedule and the sound guy wont have all the work needed to make the most of his work. We still havnt really renderd any of our shots. i think weve renderd one shot lol which might need to be renderd again i think.

other groups are realiseing that other groups are all rendering now for the marking and other people around college are using render farm and clogging it up. i not sure if we can render all work for marking but maybe we can before the final show in june. would of been nice to have an extra month or two on this project and it would of been alot better and not rushed like its going now. but we must!! start rendering some shots next week.

i not even sure jb has done the melon dodge shot with his dynamics and that needs to be ready as its an important shot. dean aswell we need him to finish the pull out shot from the cardboard :s

shot 22 guard drive off

Did this work yesterday, it makes me laugh and i am happy with it and lewis has ok'd it which is good.

NOTE- TOM did all the first part of this shot, i only did the last bit when the guard turns around and drives of out of scene. tom has this shot again and is gunna add in his other part when hes jiggling a bit on the chair after being electrocuted. also tom will hopefully polish of some of my work with the hands and maybe face