BA (HONS) Louis D.

Update! ~More animation

2009-06-22T07:04:00.002+01:00

over the last 3 weeks or so animation has been going fairly slowly. mostly due to scene corruption over and over and being unable to identify the problem. after alot of file trading back and forth between mehmet things are chaotically being put together.

while i initially only did a few keyframes, it was occasionally necessary for me to Add to the animation or slightly change a few things. examples of this can be found here.

and another example.

mehmets initial clean up

My re-cleanup

near the end of scene one i left mehmet in charge of the final few seconds completely. a scene where the robot turned and looked down at sophie i added some 2ndary animation in the arms, and hips so that the robot isnt completely motionless, this isnt the fault of mehmet as time was being horribly cut short from me attempting to get all the frames together and files an d sorting out renders with dan, which ended up failing almost every step of the way.

other than that most of the animation by mehmet turned out quite good, unfortunately with me being in charge of scene 1 somehow things got rather chaotic as there ended up being over 10 gigs of files just for scene 1.. and not all of the files had the most up to date animation all the way through, which made compiling and sorting out the shots, (which i was also in charge of for scene one) Insanely difficult, while i admit it was my fault for being slightly unorganized in this manner. the reason for having so many files is because each time i edited / saved Maya would crash, corrupt, and destroy everything ive worked on time and time again. Which we found out was due to a bugged/corrupted Object within the scene, which turned out to be the Radio Chris had modelled for the project. the radio had to be scrapped, and a new scene created MULTIPLE times in order to fix the extensive corruption in the 30+ files that kept rearing its head, making it completely impossible to render.

Animating.

2009-05-19T18:40:00.001+01:00

after alot of trial and error animation has officially begun, ive begun keyframing the action. the keyframing is being done and tested in both step tangent keyframes and Linear Tangent keyframing. Here are some playblasts.

Update 2.0

2009-05-19T15:25:00.002+01:00

Sophie! so far her leg texture isnt done, the leg texture we had previous was.. unsatisfactory. currently the shader she is using looks more liek stockings than skin, which May prove to be acceptable with current time frames.

Update

2009-05-01T11:34:00.005+01:00

!Update!

Well, sophie is basically completed in the months since the last post, there is alot of progress to report. Sophies face has been tweeked since the last 2 video's posted and a lower Polygone version has been produced.

First a quick Shot of the lower Poly gone version

The Polygone count has dropped significantly

Afterwards, Chris and Dan worked on textures, while i primarily worked on Blend Shapes for sophies Expressions.

Some expressions can be seen in these shots

and also a quick video of 1 Blend Shape Set here

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Hair was difficult to come up with, tried maya hair, but maya hair was very laggy and didnt seem to go too well with the style of the model. In the end i Made a quick texture and tested it.

Further progress afterwards included Some texture tweeks and tests, As the final texture wasnt 100% correct for some of the later mesh tweeks that came to sophie.
Some of these texture tests can be seen in these shots.

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I adjusted sophies Lips to conform to the model more accurately. Also these are some of the tweeks in the texture i made myself to conform better to the mesh of the model.

Original texture

Sophie 3D face view

2009-01-27T10:32:00.002Z

Here's sophie in a 360 view video. Please go to youtube to view them in Higher quality.

Slide Show Sophie progress

2009-01-27T10:26:00.002Z

Slide show of sophies progress... i see a green spider hanging outside my window. D;

the new Junk Food 3D work gallery: Junk Food 3D work gallery here

Modelling Sophie Pt 3

2009-01-27T10:22:00.003Z

Just hit me... why didn't i put a Slideshow instead of fixing all these images 1 by 1.. and give a link to the new 3D work gallery... urgh im so dumb.... (migrain)

Modelling Sophie Pt 2

2009-01-27T10:15:00.002Z

Modelling Sophie

2009-01-27T09:50:00.003Z

3D character model of Sophie. Here be the progress:

Animatic

2008-12-05T08:30:00.001Z

My section of the Junk Food Animatic. "Junk food: Day One"

StoryBoard: Day One

2008-12-05T03:25:00.003Z

>>Junk Food Main Gallery here<<

Junk Food: Animatic Panic

2008-11-22T00:19:00.003Z

Not really a panic, but as we ar elooking to push forward for our animatic ive been looking up some animatics and see where we can go with ours. here are a few i dug up on youtube, i went for more famouse and credible animatics.

Junk Food: More StoryBoardage

2008-11-17T00:33:00.002Z

further samples of storyboard work first frame, and then the 2nd frame (i will be using the first frame further as the opening shot requires multiple cut backs, so no sense redrawing an entire page for facial expression changes etc.)

Junk Food: Self Generatin

2008-11-10T14:08:00.005Z

well im doing what i was told to do, "be self generating". which was explained to me as, just generate more work. so here is another concept, i took elements from the 2nd Girl concept as i liked the clothing from it, and put it into this 4th concept. I re-traced it from my notebook into sketchbook pro. unfortunatly ive almost destroyed the original work doing so, as going over the lines so many times eventually tore it up lol.

Ive begun story boarding, it might be seen as a little much for just a storyboard i will prolly tone it down slowly as compared to the first panel, but i just wanted something fairly solid to capture attention.

The gallery for junk food stuff is here:
Junk Food

and the gallery for Junk food character concepts is here:
Junk Food Character oncepts

Junk Food: Junkfood of war?

2008-11-08T12:50:00.001Z

with the new game Gears of War 2 released, i took a look into some of the concept work in the new release by Epic Games. I feel elements from the environment concepts / theme can work well with chris' environment designs. of course this is just research, something of a mood board post if you will.

Important Links

2008-11-07T23:53:00.003Z

The Links section will be an incredibly important section of my Blog, and other blog:
(The FacelessProject)
as it will now have a gallery of my work, such as concept work, research images, etc. I will try to post the links to each and all work i do, but also will keep a reminder at the bottom of the post that for easy viewing / navigation of images please refer to the Appropriate Link(s) that are located to the left of this page (or right on my Faceless Project Blog).

Junk Food Environment stuff
Junk Food work
Junk Food Character Concepts

(please keep in mind that not all work is of my own, and i will not claim these works as produced by me. if you want an image removed please contact me and message me to do so and i will comply.)

Junk Food: Steam Punk

2008-11-07T14:34:00.001Z

Steam Punk is a very Interesting thing. I have based some of the concepts I have done off of this style because of the retro look it achieves. also i think chris' robotic element to his story could benefit from this look.

these images are from the website: crabfu DIY steampunk

the reason i am looking into steam punk is because of the character designs i think would be good use Junk food. such as the main protagonist from the movie "Steamboy"

1000 Cranes for Peace: Backgrounds

2008-11-05T18:35:00.001Z

I did these quick backgrounds, made up of images. the girl in the window is only there as a place holder. as it is only the background concept. however i havent spoken to anja recently so im not 100% certain if this is what she wants, or wants me to do something else.

my reasoning behind these images compiled of the solid pictures as they are is because of the enthasis i wanted to put on freedom, or vice versa, being unable to be free unable to move the way she used to. so when i was asked to do these backgrounds i wanted to make it seem rigid on the inside, and bleak, without much hope. in contrast when you think of freedom you often would picture motion or escaping into a greater area.

Junk Food: Girl Concept

2008-11-05T18:08:00.000Z

Once i knew the main char was a little girl i got to work on these Character
concepts.

Blog is Now Open

2008-11-05T11:25:00.001Z

Finally Started, This Blog will be updating my progress on the work assigned to me by the chosen directors. I will Post the work Under the title of What Short Film i have produced the work for. Any and All personal work i will post on my seperate Blog:

The Faceless Project

http://facelessmorgan.blogspot.com/