24/05/2011 - 3 Weeks Left

At this point I am still waiting on animators to finish give me a finessed scene to render, in the mean time i have been working on some promotional shots for the degree show as well as working on the animation for the final after credit shot of the marmot being cooked. i have been having a few issues as our tutor told us to not have a too detailed model of the marmot on the spit as it could be seen as a bit crude but when taking out some of the detail the marmot was losing too much character and not looking right. i decided to leave a bit more detail in there and have smoke and fire overlaid in the compositing stage.

Here is a screen shot of the final scene set up, you can see that the marmot has a small level of detail to which will hopefully be more subtle once I have comped FX into the scene

 While working on the animation for this scene I am trying to keep the graph editor as neat as possible, as although not being an animator I know that the graph editor is one of the most useful tools. If i had the time I would like to learn to animate stepped but I fit it in with everything else I have.

Here is a Playblast of the animation so far, I am struggling as the animation has to be subtle but I'm going to see the tutor on thursday so i should be able to get some help

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Here you can see the promotional render I am working on, its going to be a simple environmentwith the 2 characters mid run added in later.

Rendering 5 and Secondary Animation

 This video is one of the render pieces where I was trying to match one of Dave's concepts this was a simple matter of using the layer as an alpha channel and using this as a silhouette. This was also a shot where you can see some of the secondary animation that I have been working on.

Silhouette concept match



Below is one of the very first renders that I did which showed a good representation of what the final film should look like.

Beaty Shot For Pitch



This Render was also in preparation for the 2nd term pitch that we had to do. Dave and I decided that I could use this opportunity to practice my editing techniques to create a Making Of Snatched film.