Another 11 seconds of Fun

Yay, we have been set another 11 second club! Back to Maya animation, my favourite :D So, in case you missed the other ones, the 11 second club (http://www.11secondclub.com) is a competition. Each month, they release an 11 second sound clip for you to animate to. You have a month to create this animation and then winners are picked. It is judged on character animation, its all about the movement, and believability of the character, not  any fancy effects, decent environments, or special lighting. This is great for practice, and anyone can enter, right from students up to professionals. So we have been set it this month (though rather late in the month)

This is my blocked out animation, I am still going to refine it, and I need to add lip sync to it, but I think it is coming together well :]


for some reason, every-time i upload this video onto Blogger, the sound cuts midway though.

Cornish Studies Over

So on Friday, we finished our Cornish Studies animation, and I think it went really well. Here is the final version:

Not entirely sure why, but the upload of this video has made the bird at the end red, but apart from that, this is the final version.

Did some doodles and sketches over the last week, finally got round to photographing them. Most are just quick pieces to practice my figures.

As its spring, and at the moment campus looks gorgeous with all the trees and flowers blooming, I thought I would draw a blossom I picked. Done quickly with chalks and charcoal, and a tiny bit of pencil.

These are all just sketches of figures doing various tasks that I saw, and the last one is a face i drew while bored.

Also, today I spent a long while attempting to iron out all the massive problems with my Matte Painting project. I have been having problems with it because firstly, Maya is a prrogramme that likes to crash as I am moving to the save button, and Secondly because, i missed the first lecture (I overslept, I know its my fault) where we learnt about it. Still, I managed it though, and thats what mattered.

Basically, we had to grab a photo of a building, and then using just the photo and maya, ahd to put the building in another environment, and projection map it onto a model to make it look 3d even with a small camera move.

This video shows my original photo, and then the final animation,a nd then a wire frame render.

So, once again I have been slow on updating my blog, so today will probably be another mass upload day. this is some of the thing I have thrown together from the Cornish Studies project so far.

In case i haven't mentioned it yet, the Cornish Studies project was set to us for Truro Cathedral. We were given sound clips of interview with Miners and Fishermen, and had to select one, cut it down to about 45 second and go through the entire animation process to create and animation for it. Our group is the smallest, with only 4 people (Me, Sam [http://helyer-art.blogspot.co.uk/], Max [http://maxheerasing.blogspot.co.uk/] and Likem [http://likemgayi.wordpress.com/]), but we are working hard, and it will be done by the end of the week. Here are some animation tests I have at hand, enjoy:

this was a test of the waves, which took me a while to figure out in flash, as the shape hints were not co-operating. I also incorporated a jumping dolphin, made from a dolphin that Max drew, which i edited slightly in photoshop and then through into the animation. The backdrop was created by Likem, and the entire thing is supposed to be in stained glass style.

This is what I have at the moment for the first part of the sound clip, built using the same elements as the previous video, with some Photoshop edits, and Likems boat.




Sam has a really awesome animation for the next part with the birds here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCpGLS0ILM