Animate!

Now that we are in the final stretch of Going Live its probably time to talk about my final project again.

Here is my character for my final animation. (The suit won't be grey in the final film that was just to help me work out the sections.)

I'm still thumbnailing the exact story (and we have another storytelling class that will hopefully help me completely lock it down) so in the meantime I have been getting on with my character.

So you may have noticed that I haven't been updating this blog quite as much as I should have been recently. For the last few weeks we have been really busy animating and as soon as we were nearly finished that we ran into a bunch of problems rendering. We think we've fixed it now (find out for sure on Monday) but going back to fix all the shots is going to take a bunch of time I would rather have used to polish our animation. So its a bit of a nightmare really.

So we have finally reached the animation stage of going live! Yay!! We split the characters between us so me and Nely are mostly working on He-Man. These are the shots I'm currently working on. We are going to have a crit session on Monday with the class and another one on Tuesday with Brendan which should help me refine and polish what I've already done.

So the last couple of weeks we have been working on the lip sync. We are like 80% done with it now and most of us have moved on to animation. This is one of the lip sync shots that I was working on.



And here is our previs (now with a new ending!) with our lip sync shots added.