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2nd Year Begins

So, after a long summer, I am back in Falmouth. Sorry i wasn't posting over summer.

We have just had our first Animation Roles and Processes lecture, and have been set our project for the year. We are going to be put in groups of 3, working probably with people we haven't worked with yet. The project is making a title sequence for a fictitious film. there are various themes for the shows the titles would be for that stand out, my favourites at the moment are:

Yesterdays Tomorrow- A Sci-FI show, taking very early science fiction stories, pre Jules Verne sort of stuff, and bringing them to life. Cant use images from after the 40's.

My Father, The Hero- A biopic about somebody you know or a famous person, similar to things like "Walk the Line", or "The King's Speech" etc.

In the lecture we watched the Title sequence for Rango, Seven, Bond and others on watchthetitles.com

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

Mental, Experimental.

So I have just finished my experimental animation. I had some problems with it, but I think it turned out really well in the end. I had to move the camera each day, because it was positioned in my room ate bed (the top bunk) to get the right angle, and I had to renew the camera in store each day. This resulted in some jerky animation, but I still think it works really well. The dancing goes with the music quite well also, which I was worried about. Now I have to wash that suit' as its been on the floor all week, and I need it this weekend for my cousins wedding...

So here is the finished piece:

Animals

So over the holidays, we were tasked with drawing animals while they moved. Unfortunately, I stupidly left my sketch book back in Norfolk. Still, I've bought a new one, and have started visiting people with pets and going out into fields etc, and here are a couple of the drawings I have done.

 There will be more to come, but for now:

I'm Back!

Okay, so once again I have neglected my blog a little bit, what with he Easter Holidays and everything, so heres me coming back with a vengeance.

One of the task we have been given is to make a character do a walk. Yes, we have done that before, but this time, we were each filmed, and using the reference footage, we have to try and create our own walks, and then some sort of unusual walk, in my case, a greatly exaggerated skip.

I decided to use a rig that I haven't used properly before, the Moom rig, which I quite enjoy using. I have had a few quick goes with it, and prefer it to the Morphy rig, so heres its debut on my blog!

So here is my reference footage:

And heres is the walk part (I shall have the skip done by tonight):

More Life-Drawings!

So, I know I haven't posted in a while, and while its a lame excuse, I have just had a busy week. Anywho, Here are Wednesdays life-drawings. it was a good session, with not too many short poses. My flatmate Alice came along and she really enjoyed it, and I think she got some brilliant drawings from it.

Experimentation

Did some experimenting with various types of animation today. Had a quick go with Sand animation, which I really enjoyed, and Pixilation which was fun too. Unfortunately, the sand animation is rather rushed because I wasn't the only one wanting to use it. The pixilation one wasn't too good, because I did it while locked out of the flat, on the landing, but it turned out okay, and makes a good test. In future, I need the camera higher up, and a sheet or something white on the floor to act as a backdrop. I got the idea for using clothes from last weeks Osbert Parker lecture, which was really interesting.

My Hat :]

Made another quick pixilation video. unfortunately, because the camera is full of pictures (I really need to buy one of my own) then I have a limited amount of frames I can shoot, so this time I just reversed the frames and stuck them on the end of the originally so it goes back again. Enjoy:

An Entire Face!

I modelled my face again yesterday, but this time I did the whole thing at once:

 

Also, I have some drawings to upload from yesterdays life drawing. The model didnt show though, so we drew each other:

Getting All Experimental

So we had a look at a few experimental animations from last years 1st year students, because this semester we have tom make one. This basically means we shouldn't really use computers, except to edit the animation together. We are going to be trying out various techniques, like Sand animation (putting sand on glass, with a light underneath, and moving the sand and taking photos), Paint on glass animation (like the sand animation, but with paint) and Pixilation (stop-motion of people and objects.)
heres some awesome video examples of some experimental stuff.
This guys is a 2nd year on my course (http://timwheatleydigitalanimation.blogspot.com/), amazing what you can do with a bike wheel:

 

Heres a lovely bit of sand animation I found on Youtube:

 

This is a brief bit of paint on glass animation:

 

And here is an awesome music video with lots of pixilation:

I had a really quick go at some basic pixilation earlier with my flatmate's camera (Thanks Alex) to see what its like. It was rally fun, though you need space and need to be careful what you move. So here's my first experiment with some Uno cards: