Animation Major - Week 9

Oh lord, pre-production has taken a more frightening twist since last Tuesday. The updated curriculum sheet has likely taken a year or two years off my life. Most of the past two weeks I've been caught with an illness, and thus my pre-production has slowed down a fair bit. I have completed the storyboards and have more or less finished all the model sheets (with an exception of the expression sheets, given that my characters don't change expressions at all) so I've spent this week working on the model. I'm still somewhat concerned about my indisputable lack of 3-d modelling skills, especially considering I made my character design as simple as I could knowing that my modelling skills weren't up to par. Hopefully I can overcome this issue, because oddly enough, uv mapping, texturing, joint orientation, etc. don't frighten me anywhere near as much as modelling does; hopefully I can get that out of the way as painlessly as possible.

Animation Major - Week 8

Again, not as much done as I would've liked this week. Since I've yet to see my scanned in model, I'm unsure as to whether or not it will be usable in the animation, my guess being it probably won't be. I've spent a couple of days considering the layout again this week. I've decided to try a pastel sky and sun on tissue paper then scrunched to make it appear unnatural. This won't likely be the final look, though it is a thought after viewing a 3-D animation on Youtube. This coming week I hope to complete the model sheets for both characters.

Animation Major - Holidays

Well considering my first week was spent away from home mostly, and consequently I got little done, I can only really comment on the second week. Second week of the holidays consisted of my refining my storyboards twice. I'm still undecided on a number of shots though I'm confident everything is more or less fine as it is now. Aside from the storyboard, I also locked off the design of the robot. No sense on revising it any more than necessary. I also drew up a rough layout for the one background scene in the animation which I shall upload later in the week.