Friday 7 March 2008
Week 9
Good things:
I found that my modelling had become more detailed and better understanding on how to model better within Maya8, the texture I find that I am making progress with UV mapping in photo shop, than I was on the last project. Also because I found character modelling hard, which was mainly the face I worked on that more than anything because I needed to prove to myself I could so things without the help from others.
Bad things:
I do need to work on character animation, I did try my best to design my two characters but it was let down I believe because my animation was to stiff and that could take away from the movie, but on the other hand making the animation the way I did made my animation appeal to what I was trying to produce and that was having a memory and by have the two characters in a slow and them not moving around so much gave the idea of the characters being in the past or in a dream, so in away the animation could work, but I do want to get better in developing animating character more.
the editing and sound went really well, I only used music to get the element of a love story in a way and by using the editing program I think made the short animation better because I was able to cut up the film and add in black shorts to chop up the film to create time passing.
What I would do again:
If I was to do it again I really want to work on my animation so I think I'll develop characters, a good rig and texture them and to just animation and maybe not create an environment to have more time making it better.
what I have learnt:
I learnt how to model, texture, get better in after effects, character modelling, character texture, character animation and developing a short animation piece that I'm very proud of. The one thing that I mainly learnt was texture characters, I have never done this before and it was a new thing I learnt this year.
what I have achieved:
I achieved what I set out to do and that was to develop two scenes with UV mapping textures along with developing two characters faces, which I wanted to work on and make better. A short animation piece by myself. I am so happy with what I have made, even if it doesn't look good to others I found that I achieved a personal goal.
From my work timetable I made for myself it helped to work out what I needed to do for what days, I did keep to my timetable and did sometimes do more than I should have done for certain weeks but then when problems accrued I was able to sort them out without falling behind.
Monday 25 February 2008
Week 8
what I have done is used the duration tool in premiere pro to give the before scenes a slow and joggy pace to hopefully show that its a memory. Also I have some clips blacked out to give the affect of later in the day or future. I notice it a lot because I've been working on it and an audience will pick up on it to just not as much as I see it. I am pleased with the work I have done this term, even if there are loads of things that others believe I need to work on I find that I have reached a personal goal, that I can be proud of.
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Week 7
For week seven I have started to animate my characters, first I have been praticing to animte and trying out how I can make the two skaters move on the ice and interact with each other. If I find some bits in my pratic animated piece that work then I'll keep them and add them to my final scene.
When using premiere pro I started to edit some footage and see how it plays out.
Lighting: I had a hard trouble with the lighting only because I wanted the two scenes to have an element of night and day. Jared said that if I put a light under the snow texture to bring out the look of winter. It has made a difference with both the scene now it has the mood of looking like to sepertate scenes.
Animation: My characters still feel like their not moving smoothly, I need to work on their movement to have them act towards each other. what is working is the kiss scene that I have made. I didn't want to change that scene at all only because I think that it works well. The only thing that is worrying me is that on the maya8 timeline I have not spred out the action which makes the characters move to fast and when playing it in premiere pro, its showing to fast and when I applied the speed tool, it makes the characters jog. But on the other hand the affecet it has given makes it look more of a memory with its joggy slower pace. So I might keep it in or have to re-do.
Music: I wanted to only have a song in the background and no sounds to make it more of an emotional animation instead of the sounds taking the emotion away from the characters. First off I wanted to use the song 'something happened to my heart' from the film Ronnie and Julie but because the film is so old I wasn't able to either find nor download the song so I had to go though a few love songs.
- Boyz To Men: one sweet day
- Jessica Simpson: where you are
- Faith Hill: there you'll be
- Brian Adams: everything I do
I did go though loads of loves songs and watching the music channel magic, and had a list made but out of the songs I thought might have gone with my animation are shown above. I am thinking of using the song 'where you are' by Jessica Simpson because the slow and sad pace I think connects with my animation more.
Monday 11 February 2008
Week 6
I am looking at starting my animation tommorrow just sorting out last min adjustments so its all prepared to begin the animation.