800 years of Penryn Project

For this semester we have been given the task of recreating historical moments for Penryn as it's there 800th year anniversary. For our project we have the story of when the Spanish Armada  arrived to destroy the town but ran away when the thought they were being attacked by the British, but it turned out to be the whole of Penryn cheering and shouting over a play that was happening just outside the town within a barn.

So far we have made 2 anamatics but we are still finalizing the final film as some scenes don't work and there is a lot that we can cut out of the beginning and we need to make the running away scene more funny as it happening too fast.      

Key poses with Mery

Here are my latest pose tryouts. From doing this exercise I've learnt a lot from the whole role the animator takes, and how understanding the inner feeling for the character is as important as planning out your animation as it will help bring feeling to the character. It's most important to hit these feelings within the key frames, as these will determine how the in-betweens and the final animation will look and feel to the audience .

The image above represents a character who has just seen something amazing, she is happy yet at the same time relieved that whatever is happening in front of her has happened, so in a way she is looking forward to the future as a heavy burden has been lifted from her shoulders.

This image shows her to be concentrating on achieving her task but she is trying to look confident, and a bit stylish at the same time as she knows that believing you can do something is half of the battle, therefore she is determined.

This image represents the character as relaxed, she feels as if she has had a lot on today but now it's all over and she can finally relax. While relaxing she has that small feeling for relief and finally has some time to dream and think of other things.

Here she is shown as being shocked and yet confused at what she is seeing. In her mind she is trying to come to terms with what is happening yet is so furious that she needs to swing her hands and just pause and ask....... why.

Here she is shy and not quite sure about the situation she is in; she is wanting to pull herself away than tackle or talk to whoever is interacting with her. She is not in her confront zone and is still trying to adjust to her new surroundings.

Thanks again for the awesome rig called Mery. She came from MeryProject.com

These photo were rendered using Renderman. Thanks once again Pixar

Key Posing

Key posing is very important when it comes to animation. Today I focused on achieving great poses which allow the viewer to understand what the character is thinking. From this I've learn't  that its important to take your time to pose your characters, as it's these key poses which  will determine how the tweens will look and work. I've also been able to work with the Osipa Rig to create her expressions and I've also been able to understand the reason behind why the Logic Rig can be so important to use.   

The awesome rig I used for this came from MeryProject.com

This photo was rendered using Renderman. Thanks Pixar

Dog 3D updated

Here is my updated version, I've managed to fix the framing problem and had a go at animating the tail. I don't believe it's perfect just yet and I also think that the timing for the front legs may be out a bit but overall I believe it does work, just a few tweaks here and there are needed to make it fluid.

Dog run

Here is my work in progress on a dog run cycle, there seems to be a bit of a glitch  at the end due to the frame speed which I can fix plus I still need to add in the trail movements but I believe its going well. To see the looped video, right click on the video and select loop.

Mables

Painting in photoshop, still need to get use to the program but I believe I know a lot more now, merging layers has proven to be very useful. www.ctrlpaint.com great website for new people

Projection mapping

First try at projection mapping, bit confusion and I do need to practice more but I get the gist of it.