Time for another inspiration post! "Tamara" by House Boat Animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4frsp-rR6c). I really love this animation, I like the art style but to be honest what really drew me to this animation was the story and the use of ASL, I don't think I have seen another animation that uses sign language. (Really beautiful end credits too.) "Mon ami le robot" by Cube...
Phil suggested we try photogrammetry to help model the toys for our animation. Photogrammetry is a technique where you take a series of photos around an object from different angles and use the data from those photos to create a 3D model. Earlier in the week Stathis used this technique to get a model of He-Man's head so the rest of us decided...
As we are nearly ready to start the previs for our project Phil suggested we find some examples to put on our blogs. The first example that comes to mind when I'm thinking about previs is The Third Floor, they are a company specialising in previs. They did the previs for the Avengers films, Iron Man 3, Skyfall and a lot of other...
This week we have been getting on with modelling the assets for Going Live. I was in charge of making the model sheet for the Sylvanian family rabbit and with modelling the robot. This is the rabbit model sheet, with additional reference images down the side. And here is a quick render of the robot model (with no proper textures). The next stage...
So on Friday we had a refresher lesson about natural lighting. The lighting in our Going Live project is going to be very important so we requested this class to remind us of the lighting techniques we learned last semester. This is the final image lit with IBL. And this is the final image using our own lights. Personally I prefer placing the...
So this Friday's lesson was back to the very fundamentals of animation the bouncing ball. We got to really use the graph editor a lot more this class which is good as I have never been that comfortable with it and this lesson has really given me much more of an understanding of how it works and how i can use it to...
Today we had a second skype call with Axis and they seemed really positive about our new idea. Based on their feedback we refined our animatic even further, cutting some unnecessary dialogue and characters to make the story tighter, and this is the finished result. (images by Andrea, audio by Stathis, editing by me & Krish) We have cut the pigs out of...
In this weeks 3D class we covered lip syncing. I have done a tiny bit of lip synch before but I learned a bunch of methods in this class that will make it much easier and look much better than the way I had previously been doing it. Sang taught us how to first create all the extreme phoneme poses (AI, O, E,...
We have had quite a few production meetings now to work on our story for the Axis brief. After being told our initial idea was a bit dark we changed track completely. The new concept is focused on a group of toys that come to life and re-enact the Jeremy Kyle show. We managed to edit a bunch of clips of the show...
