My Animatic
My Animation
It is not completly finished but this is what i have so far... i have added in stills to show roughly what would have happened... i ran out of time to render as i had trouble with my max file and camera set ups.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Evaluation
What a long project this has been! I must admit when I got given the brief after Christmas I was fairly disappointed, however when I started to think about it, I thought I could do something really great with this... that thought didn’t last for long as I really started to struggle with inspiration.
I watched film after film and looked through magazines, books, internet and couldn’t find anything that inspired me. I eventually chose Edward Scissorhands because it is... was, one of my favourite films and I love the innocence of Edward but how he is portrayed as evil. My original idea was to create it in a doll world similar to toy story as you can see on my blog. I wanted to create a house made out of doll parts and have the inventor and Edward as dolls and everything looking like plastic. A bit like a Ken and Barbie animation but with a creepy side to it as I’m easily creeped out by dolls. I wanted it to have a Frankenstein twist to it!
So I started planning however after a conversation with a tutor we decided I didn’t have enough time to make the whole house and that for a few seconds animation it wouldn’t be worth it and to concentrate on the inside of the house. After going home and trying to redesign my ideas I sort of got fed up with it and it didn’t seem the same so AGAIN decided to change my idea except this time I didn’t have one so I started to create my environment hoping I would get inspiration as I was going along. I created basic things like stairs, tables, furniture to go in my environment that I knew I needed.
It’s a really inappropriate way to start a project but time was ticking and I was running out of ideas, so. I started with an attic room, thought it didn’t look good so made a basement and added all my furniture then when it came to animating I thought it was too much like the original film so went back to the attic idea! Silly I know. Anyways I love modelling so I didn’t mind; it was when I came to adding lighting and cameras I got stuck.
I found modelling and rigging my characters fairly easy I didn’t really have a problem, only with the envelopes however that was only minor. I also found animating my machine fairly easy however when I merged it into my scene it didn’t animate properly and I can’t figure out why. But the original file works fine! Most of my problems came when I had to add the cameras and render! Cameras and rendering have always been a problem for me and I think always will be. When I was doing my modelling I was trying hard to keep face counts down the whole way through however when I rendered after a certain point it would say not enough memory to allocate mesh or something along those lines but it would render it fine as a still and as a sequence up to 166 stills then it would always come up with that message. I ended up having to delete my fire effect for my machine which was one of my focal points. I did not use after effects in the end for a couple of reasons; I didn’t have the time, and I don’t really understand it properly... still! It’s something I am keen to learn over summer when I have no deadlines or projects to concentrate on.
That aside I am happy with my modelling anyways. I think my modelling has really improved since last year, in fact even from the beginning of this year! It took me a long while to get the hang of simple modelling I used to make a mess out of it but it has really improved and I am really happy with it! I am also really happy with my portfolio project. I spent a lot of time on that because I was just model making there was not a lot of animation and rigging ect. I spent too much time on it really. I really need to allow myself more time next year in my work; it’s the main thing that lets me down every time. And I’m really disappointed in myself for allowing it to happen again in this project.
I watched film after film and looked through magazines, books, internet and couldn’t find anything that inspired me. I eventually chose Edward Scissorhands because it is... was, one of my favourite films and I love the innocence of Edward but how he is portrayed as evil. My original idea was to create it in a doll world similar to toy story as you can see on my blog. I wanted to create a house made out of doll parts and have the inventor and Edward as dolls and everything looking like plastic. A bit like a Ken and Barbie animation but with a creepy side to it as I’m easily creeped out by dolls. I wanted it to have a Frankenstein twist to it!
So I started planning however after a conversation with a tutor we decided I didn’t have enough time to make the whole house and that for a few seconds animation it wouldn’t be worth it and to concentrate on the inside of the house. After going home and trying to redesign my ideas I sort of got fed up with it and it didn’t seem the same so AGAIN decided to change my idea except this time I didn’t have one so I started to create my environment hoping I would get inspiration as I was going along. I created basic things like stairs, tables, furniture to go in my environment that I knew I needed.
It’s a really inappropriate way to start a project but time was ticking and I was running out of ideas, so. I started with an attic room, thought it didn’t look good so made a basement and added all my furniture then when it came to animating I thought it was too much like the original film so went back to the attic idea! Silly I know. Anyways I love modelling so I didn’t mind; it was when I came to adding lighting and cameras I got stuck.
I found modelling and rigging my characters fairly easy I didn’t really have a problem, only with the envelopes however that was only minor. I also found animating my machine fairly easy however when I merged it into my scene it didn’t animate properly and I can’t figure out why. But the original file works fine! Most of my problems came when I had to add the cameras and render! Cameras and rendering have always been a problem for me and I think always will be. When I was doing my modelling I was trying hard to keep face counts down the whole way through however when I rendered after a certain point it would say not enough memory to allocate mesh or something along those lines but it would render it fine as a still and as a sequence up to 166 stills then it would always come up with that message. I ended up having to delete my fire effect for my machine which was one of my focal points. I did not use after effects in the end for a couple of reasons; I didn’t have the time, and I don’t really understand it properly... still! It’s something I am keen to learn over summer when I have no deadlines or projects to concentrate on.
That aside I am happy with my modelling anyways. I think my modelling has really improved since last year, in fact even from the beginning of this year! It took me a long while to get the hang of simple modelling I used to make a mess out of it but it has really improved and I am really happy with it! I am also really happy with my portfolio project. I spent a lot of time on that because I was just model making there was not a lot of animation and rigging ect. I spent too much time on it really. I really need to allow myself more time next year in my work; it’s the main thing that lets me down every time. And I’m really disappointed in myself for allowing it to happen again in this project.
Sunday, 15 May 2011
It's been a while
It's been a while since iv been on here... iv been very busy trying to complete my project. Iv been working on my finished models which i have changed over and over! I have also been working on my environment which is what i have been concentrating on most until recently when i have given up with it and finished off my character models! Im not normally a fan of character animation but i have really enjoyed making my inventor... ok i may have made a few rough models which i wasn't happy with but it has all led to my final ideas for both my characters! I got the idea for the final inventor of a picture of an old man i saw on the internet. I roughly changed the shape of his head and i made his body a bit different but i am really pleased with it so here he is uncomplete at this stage as i will put the final version up in my evaluation...
More will be up shortly of my other character but for now its time to hit the hay
More will be up shortly of my other character but for now its time to hit the hay
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