My Model is done!

Yay! I've finished it!

Ok modeling has never been my favourite subject but I've done it....and er (whispers) it has actually started to grow on me...anyway here is the original image.



And here is what I ended up with.

TADAAAH!

That little diary was evil. It had eleven little holes down the side and two metal rings in each but I was determined to make this as accurate as possible so I created each of those little holes and metal rings. I was also intent on making my plug sockets as close to the original as possible too like so.

And here are the plug sockets completed.

For some of my objects I had to create my own textures. My Bunny Suicides calendar for example.

I do love that calendar

I found in the process of creating my model that I actually knew more about modeling than I originally thought as well as the fact I began to enjoy it more as I went along.

Anyway I don't think its quite perfect. for example I think I the curvature of certain surfaces and objects could be improved. I think maybe the lighting could be a little better too as it looks a bit abnormal although I think this could partly be hindered by the fact that the lighting of the original image was unusual and as I have simulated this onto my model it automatically looks unnatural.

Over all I think my textures are ok but a couple could probably be ether made a little lighter or darker. Apart from that I think my levels of reflectivity are pretty close and I think I managed to excel in spacing, proportions and composition.

Anyway thats my blog for the day.





I'm actualy modeling

Yes I'm finally getting on with my 3D enviroment. My desk to be precise. I don't want to admit it but I'm enjoying it a little more that I expected.

Anyway this is it so far.

And there it be.

I've managed to complete the work I've lost!

At 14:34 I, Little H, have managed to redo and complete my lost flash work after yet another sleepless night. Hah. In your face faulty computers!. I have defeated you!

The only problem is that upon rendering my animation I discover that the sound has been corrupted again so I'm going to have to find some kindly boffin to help me amend that but apart form that it is completed. Take a look.

See? The wings blur this time!

Unfortunately to compensate for loss of time my lip sync is not as clean as it was before I lost the original. If I have time I will attempt to make my wee dude in the fore ground bob up and down a little.

Oh and I've done all my experimental animation work. Now I've only got to edit it togeather. I think I might evern be able to beathe soon!

Working, working, working...

So yeah. I've been working a lot.

The night after I lost all that flash work I didn't sleep very well. Then the next day I began my experimental project with my awesome partner. It involved a lot of cardboard. 102 pieces to be precise. We spent the entire day, morning to evening, drawing and cutting them out and I obtained a very painful blister in the process. I call it determination goaded by a hint of exasperation from the day before.
Anyway that night I didn't fall asleep until about four in the morning and when I eventually did drift off I then had a detailed dream about zombies. I promptly woke up after that...I didn't succeed in getting any of my sleep back.

Today I was in the studio at nine to attempt a catch up on my flash project. I regained as small portion of what I lost but I've still got a way to go. Some time around midday my partner and I continued with the experimental animation project. The number of cardboard pieces has multiplied to some where over 140 and we've got most of the animation done. I think.

It's coming up to one in the morning but now seemed like a good time to blog as I'm still struggling to sleep-I thought I'd make good use of the time. Also the guy in the flat above has taken to riding his skateboard up and down the room so I don't think I'll be getting sleep any time soon.
No matter. I have this nice little cardboard caravan cut out (advertising summerbreack.co.uk) that can be folded into a 3D model. Yep. That's definitely going to keep me entertained...

RUINED!

I love animating and I mean love it. If I'm ever given a project which involves animating I like to do a good job and if it means I will have to spend hours on the job to get it right then I will. I worked on my most recent project from ten in the morning to eight in the evening for two days straight without any breaks and I'm not exaggerating.
It was practically finished and it was perfect. (Wait the emphasis was not powerful enough.) "Ahem." It was frigging PERFECT!!! I proceeded to save it and I was very vigilant about how I did it as I had worked on this thing diligently. Then I closed it and decided that before I removed my USB I would open it up again for good measure and...it was GONE! GONE, GONE, GONE!!!!! All my lip sync, hand gestures, the expressive eyebrows, pupils and eyelid animation GOOOOOOONE!!!

At this point I find something inside me has sort of collapsed. I practically didn't eat for two days and now I find it was just about for nothing. Did I grieve? Yes I did.

Right now I'm not sure what I should do...I'll probably be told I have to do it again...but I don't have time to do a proper job...


Anyway here are a couple of animation tests for my fly. I was experimenting with flight motion before I found an even better technique which, of course, has also been lost.

I suspected that staring at this through out the entire animation would probably give the audience seizures so I decided to slow it down.

This was far too slow and just looked plain pathetic.

I latter worked out that there was a method for adding motion blur. So I stuck with the first wing animation applied the blur and was much better. Well that's all I can show now for all my hard days intensive labour.

Animatic

Ok recently I think my blog has become arrestively dull and I also have not been keeping up to date with it as well as I have been in the past. I think this may be another slightly boring blog. *sighs*

I recently just completed my animatic for my flash adornment (with the flys and the loo) so basically its just simple rough animation. I wasn't trying to achieve anything great here. Have a look.

For some reason the pitch of the voice lowered when I imported it to flash (and when it was made into a movie file the audio the developed a hiss) so I'm going to have to find a way of correcting that. In my actual animation I plan to make the wings of the fly in the foreground actually flutter and I'll give his arms better articulation.

Upon constructing my characters I told myself I wouldn't attempt to do something epic as this was only an animatic...but then I lost my self restraint again.

Here is my fly

Here he is again in several pieces

And this list may give you an idea of just how many individual little bits my winged dude was comprised of...and the large number of layers....ack!

Public Lavatories

Yep. That's right. Public lavatories.

Why? Well one of my most recent assignments is "My life in Falmouth." For this I've got to record someone and put animation to their speech and, of course, this must be someone who presently lives in Falmouth. I have the liberty to set the scene where ever I want, make the speaker what ever I want and choose the subject matter (as long as it relates to Falmouth.) As Falmouth is a very tourist orientated place there are public loos dotted around everywhere so I've decided to animate a couple of flys talking about the public bogs.
I've recently created a few concept sketches based on photos I took....yes I took photos of some bogs...and I've done the odd rough character sketches which are subject to change depending on what the speakers may sound like. You may find these drawings are easily more visible if you tilt your screen back a bit

...the scan was a wee bit tilted...

A rather flamboyant portrayal.

Just thinking of details and stuff.

I think I may need to simplify the character design but these are only rough so it'll probably change once I've got my recordings.

Anyway that's that. Maybe next time I'll upload a small preview of my little project. Scidodle!