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Finally got to a rough animation. The main movements are there, but there’s still a lot of work to do besides the lipsync.
The poses are timed to fit the voice acting, but it’s not quite there yet.
I have tried to make it look less like a block animation and getting some follow-through there. But all the poses are more or less there.
Here’s the clip (in .avi-format)
This is the stage in between block and rough, simply because I made the block half-finished before I made it into the rough animation.
The timing is getting fixed and the poses tweaked a bit. I tried to experiment a bit with the lipsync, but decided I should delay it until I started closing in to the clean animation. I am not too sure about the animation and poses in the beginning here, but there should be time to fix it.
Still in .avi-format:
http://andreasnor.com/media/movies/cca_ica_block_rough_02.avi
Invader Zim, a huge inspiration for my animation
I started on the animation by blocking out the key poses, and tend to use quite some time at this stage. This is important, because I want the exaggerated poses to follow through to the final product.
My inspirations have been Invader Zim, with it’s economical animation and hysterical characters, and the stereotypical Dr. Frankenstein-scientist type we all know and love.
Here’s an .avi-file of the block-in-progress (Max wouldn’t render to .mov for some reason):
When the voice actor(James Harris) sessions were over, I started creating a very rough and quick animatic of how I wanted the final animation to be. The camera is supposed to go closer in on the scientist, as he gets more and more intense and frustrated. It was made in Photoshop and Premiere.
Here’s the animatic (.mov-file)
My hard drive crashed. While my computer is up and running again with a new hd and Win 7, I’ve lost all my files. Every single one.
I curse thee, foul desolate storage units of despair!!!
The good thing though, is that I have Win 7 as opposed to Vista, and I’ve started backing up my files online.
This is a major setback in every module at school, but I don’t think it’s hopeless. I just have to workincredibly hard . Yes, it sucks, but I’ve learned a very important lesson. Backup your files!
I have been working hard to finish the previz and presentation, which I presented this friday.
The previz was based on the animatic, but with clearer camera moves.
The presentation was terrible. Sure, they liked the previz, but they didn’t have much faith in me pulling it off.
So I will have to try and convince them to let me continue. I’m thinking of removing one of the shots (shot 2), meaning one less matte painting. The lava, that they mentioned, might just be based on stock footage with a lot of fumes covering the view.
There’s some convincing to do Friday this week. I’ll have to prove that I can make a matte painting and some camera tracking.
Here’s the previz:
I haven’t been able to work on AVE, because of a lot of work on the DC3, SPB and PP60 modules.
What I have to share now is some of my research.
The volcano will be based on the one from The Lord of the Rings (Mount Doom), but with a brighter sky.
Some simple geometry will be modeled, based on a Pete Draper tutorial on how to create a volcano. I will then set up a camera, render and paint over the render in Photoshop, and project it back onto the geometry in 3D Studio Max.
The same thing will be done for the rest of the shots.
Phew! I think there are around 48 storyboard frames at the moment, but still more to come.
Here’s a WIP of the animatic:
The illustrations that I’m going to present: (click to enlarge)
Made this one over the night, as I don’t have much to show on the presentation today.
It’s a concept for a futuristic scout on a distant world… *sigh* Yes, “space marines” are fun to create.
I’m a 25 year old norwegian male student, currently residing in Middlesbrough, UK
My goal is to get a bachelor degree in Digital Character Animation at Teesside University, and get into the industry as an animator or concept artist(when I’m good enough).
This blog is here partially to push myself to become a better artist.
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