Hand in on Friday... AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!

Soooo.... final week for TWO WHOLE MODULES to finish off and hand in... Sorry I have nothing to upload to make this post look pretty or interesting I'm just going to type a load of words...

Things left to do before everything will be good enough to hand in...

are...

• Animating the ident at long last - the lecturer is in today and has offered assistance so I can learn how to make the animation go how I want it to. (I've been having problems related to a lack of expertise in Cinema 4D particularly)

• Sound design for the ident - this involves shouting "weeeeeeee" and other wierd noises at a mac and finding a pinball sound effect... more on this later as to why...*

• Final finishing touches for Ident - then rendering so it is ready to look beautiful and all that...

• Finishing off the Morph animation...

• Printing out all the paperwork and binding it (for both modules)

• Making sure everything is cohesive, readable and tidy before giving it in asap.

* as I was saying - Pinball SFX... yes the idea has been somewhat edited - the characters are all going to fall into the scene while a counter in the bottom left corner counts how many there are... as the numbers increase beyond the counter's ability it starts to malfunction before the screen shuts down only to start up again with some form of technical fault page that's overlaid with the E4 logo flickering and being all glitchy... 

anyway - off to work...

cheers

Focus!

Okay...

So now that the animations for my sister have been done and passed on, I can dedicate my entire concentration to the tasks at hand in College...

So my to do list, starting this week, will be;

• E4 Ident work

1. Finish designing my character for the E4 ident and build it.
2. Build the scene for the E4 ident, this means the E4 shaped tube and so on.
3. Animate the character then drop it into the scene, then animate the bounce.
4. Camera moves and polishing it off.

• Morph project work (low priority as have already done this just extra to make the animation better)

1. Re-trace the frames in pencil to re-take in Dragon Stop-Motion.
2. Re-shoot it in Dragon.

• Practice Enrichment

1. Finish the character sheet drawings.
2. Edit them in Adobe Illustrator.
3. Colour up ready to use to build in Cinema 4D

Anything else that comes up will be added to the list and I should get everything done and dusted in time to give everything in. I'm going to need some sound effects for this E4 ident, so that is another thing I will be thinking about this week. Anyway,

Cheers

Ships, carriages racing through forests and derring do!

OK!

So the ship animation is complete to my abilities x3
Behold the animation, it loops okay too...

I have also made the horse and cart animation... I don't like it but considering how hard I found it to do (I still don't know what the problem was) but it'll have to do... I hope the clients (the widdul Sister and her Mates) find it appropriate for their project x3 I will be uploading it on another post so it might actually upload since it's taking ages to work D<

There are rumours that Phileas is coming back from holiday soon, may end up with an animation of him soon... (the line test so far looks promising)

Anyhow, until the next post,
Cheers

That postcard I was talking about from Phileas :3

There ya'll go - proof that I'm a very sad kid xD

 in addition here's the test for the ship

It's really bad and I know I need to put more frames for the ship's crest, I first shot it on 2's then 3's - 3's are better so I may need more frames full stop so it isn't jerky - moving on I'll upload it now...

cheers...

Monday... yes well

Okay so Monday was the day for making hands in Cinema 4D... and learning how to use the KNIFE tool xD it was good fun and I like the hand I ended up making...

Not sure what else there is to report on..

I'm working on the character design for my E4 sting idea, it was suggested I look at Tokyo Plastic for inspiration I was looking and I JUST FOUND THIS!!! Click here for awesomeness (http://vimeo.com/22990624)
I have a feeling this is what Dave was talking about when he mentioned a mechanical flower http://vimeo.com/5590610 Anyway I'm still working on it...

In other news, I'm working on another animation for my sister's film... She and her friends initially wanted the horse and carriage animation, now they want a ship on the sea too... I'm having trouble with the carriage but have made frames for the ship, I'm going to test them on the rostrum today and see if I need to sort anything out, then I will post it on here once I'm done...

No news on poor Phileas the Evil Cat, he's currently on holiday - we're all expecting a postcard soon...

Anyway... until my next post...
Cheers

Pretend today is Monday again...

Okay so this is the third time I've tried to upload all this stuff so if I have to try again I'm giving up and depriving this poor blog of the information it needs to survive...
So

Character designs for the Ident idea I like the most...

This is the Character that Dave the teacher likes, it's supposed to be cute and happy, this is a 3D sculpture of it screen shot from Sculptris...

So when Dave saw that character, he wanted to help teach me how to animate it in the way I wanted, so this is a test bounce of the character he used to show me how to build a character in Cinema 4D

So here's some more character designs

So I started using Sculptris recently - it is a beautiful programme and I wholeheartedly recommend it =D Obviously some of these are accidents that became intentional accidents that worked in ways I had not expected. See the fishy above =D

This is one of the character I really like - something cute, round and bouncy like this would be good to create and animate...

This is the bounce test I did all by myself to see how to make objects bounce in Cinema 4D

Er well... yeah I kinda broke the character I tried to build myself... oops...

anyway this is my final video to upload for you all to see... not that you necessarily want to...

Anyway until the next post

cheers...