A Chicken conveniently disguised as a Turkey at Christmas...

Apologies for a severe lack in posts over Christmas, my grandmother decided to pack the internet away so the room was tidier for when hoards of visitors who don't mind mess could come round and be shocked at how far she had gone to build the facade of a tidy house. These houseproud people I don't know eh.

Anyway in order to get back on track, I will say this; My editing of the frames in my animation WILL be completed today or death with ensue. (or perhaps a very late night with no eating or human contact) The fun is over and I no longer have the excuse to go buy presents for people. I have my first scene completed and it seems to me that animating in Cinema 4D isn't as difficult as I had expected. I am glad to assume that it will not take me long to have everything animated once I have completed my frames. I was originally going to work through scene by scene but it'll be quicker if I just work through all of the frames then work up from there.

I have completed the background for every scene of my animation, this is the forest I had created, borrowing the expertise of Walt Disney regarding his multi-plane camera and how the animators created the illusion of 3 dimensions in the first scene of Bambi.

I can also show you a screen shot of my first scene from C4D, despite the fact the artwork isn't exactly up to scratch, I'm pleased that I was able to animate it all by myself. Thankfully I was only at the stage of scene 1 when I had to change the sizes of some of my elements so my computer would stop having a panic attack. Thanks to the wonderful Ingrid I knew how to do this.

I've also done a camera test for the angel flying up, I'm considering a variety of camera angles from one that remais at ground level and watches the angel fly up above it to a camera that follows him up keeping level with him all the way up.

Anyway, I don't believe there is anything more for me to say other than I hope anyone reading this had a brilliant Christmas and that they have a happy new year.

I will be attempting to post something later when I 've had a look at Illustration Friday, even if I don't submit anything to the website I can always draw something to give myself good practice. I think the word of the week is 'messenger' so I can always try something for it regardless.

So I will leave you with an attempt at uploading my first scene, in the hope it will show up and be all impressive and such...

Cheers.