Back to modelling

The beginging of this week i spent writing the draft of my dissertation so as usual that takes up alot of my time! Tuesday evening i got back to helping my group out with the moddeling of the characters everyone seemed to avoid moddeling the hands of the characters so i decided to help James and John out by moddeling the hands for thier characters.

No time for work

I decided this week that i will have to focus on doing the draft for my dissertation. Unfortunately this meant i havent had time to work on the Grim Reaper project.

The Completed 2D Animatic

I have finaly finished the 2D animatic for our film this week, after it taking alost a week longer than i had planned! I am pretty pleased with the final look of the film and the way it flows. i still think that i could tweek a bit of the timming in some scenes to add to the antcipation when an old person is in trouble. We have had some good feedback from people who have watched the animatic so i am confident that the timing is good enough to pull of the comedy in the film.
i had problems rendering the file out in premiere , the file would not play smothly dispite me trying various file types and commpressions. in the end i found from Desmond that the problem was caused by After effects rendering my origional scenes out at 30 fps instead of 25, this was what was causing the jumping. fixing that was quite a waste of a day!
It was really good to finally get a version of our animatic that was up to date with our script and have the right timming. this week we also sent the animatic to Ben who was going to create the sound track to our film.

2D Animatic

on the first day back to college i set out to start my part of creating the 2d animatic. over the hollidays james had sent me and john the drawings for the animatic, it was Johns job to shade in all the drawings. as i didnt have a scanner then i had to wait till we were back at college before i could scan them in. on monday i scanned in all the images, cut them out in photoshop with the help of John. i then had to make alpha images of all the layers for the animatic.
tuesday i began to animate in after effects.

Chrismas holiday update

The first thing i decided to do over the holiday was create a new shedual for myself as i found the old one i did very useful but i found that i couldnt change dates very easily in Exel. i decided to start a new one using Microsoft project, it took me a little while to get used to but it works better for me because i can easily add new tasks and i always know what i have to do now!





I had lots of plans for the hoildays, but mostly i wanted to finish off all the concept work i had not finished in term 1.
I finished the model sheets for both the cat character and the crows for the graveyard.



I also made a poster to advertise our film, james and John are creating there own posters with a similar film theme.
Cat Facial Expressions: