Friday, 27 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
500 Word Rationale
For my animation I decided to go with the Frankenstein story. I adapted my story around the idea of Frankenstein being a toy and the doctor being a toy maker, it starts off as the classic Frankenstein story with the “doctor” making his creation, with twist coming in later.
I feel good about the way I’ve gone around planning this project and feel that is has benefited the final outcome, there are quite a few areas which I would like to change or wish that I had done better. However There are certain areas that I feel I have greatly improved on since my last project. My modelling of the scene was of a much higher quality and I found better ways of texturing and lighting the scene making it look more realistic in the final render,
I found some of the animating challenging and some scenes in my animation don’t look quite right, the scene I’m most happy with though is the shelf scene as I feel I worked hard at getting the movement of the doctor right as he lifted Frankenstein onto them.
The characters themselves I was fairly happy with although they did have some minor glitches, that had I not rushed onto other parts could have been sorted pretty easily, this is something I have come to learn from this animation, is to not rush when it comes to certain areas and to work harder at the area I am having trouble with rather than making another task less important.
Although taking a while to do my rigging, when I eventually came to it I found it fairly easy to grasp, my main problem was the envelopes, I sorted these but due to some of my modelling there were certain areas of my characters that didn’t look right. As I said I now know to concentrate on important areas earlier in the process in order for later areas to work.
The project has helped me to think about my options for next year and I think I’m leaning more towards the side of visualisation. I’ve really enjoyed creating the scene for my animation and gaining more of an eye for detail, at the same time I think animation is a skill I don’t want to lose, I know in order to be better at it I must practise and hopefully with practise and time I will get better.
It has also helped me to realise the amount of effort and work I need to put in if I am going to achieve anything by the end of the 3 years here. Even though I feel tired and challenged from this project I know there are times where I could have worked harder to achieve a greater result.
In saying all of this I still feel that the final animation does reflect how I envisaged it when I first came up with the story, and skills I have learnt throughout this second term have helped me to do that.
I feel good about the way I’ve gone around planning this project and feel that is has benefited the final outcome, there are quite a few areas which I would like to change or wish that I had done better. However There are certain areas that I feel I have greatly improved on since my last project. My modelling of the scene was of a much higher quality and I found better ways of texturing and lighting the scene making it look more realistic in the final render,
I found some of the animating challenging and some scenes in my animation don’t look quite right, the scene I’m most happy with though is the shelf scene as I feel I worked hard at getting the movement of the doctor right as he lifted Frankenstein onto them.
The characters themselves I was fairly happy with although they did have some minor glitches, that had I not rushed onto other parts could have been sorted pretty easily, this is something I have come to learn from this animation, is to not rush when it comes to certain areas and to work harder at the area I am having trouble with rather than making another task less important.
Although taking a while to do my rigging, when I eventually came to it I found it fairly easy to grasp, my main problem was the envelopes, I sorted these but due to some of my modelling there were certain areas of my characters that didn’t look right. As I said I now know to concentrate on important areas earlier in the process in order for later areas to work.
The project has helped me to think about my options for next year and I think I’m leaning more towards the side of visualisation. I’ve really enjoyed creating the scene for my animation and gaining more of an eye for detail, at the same time I think animation is a skill I don’t want to lose, I know in order to be better at it I must practise and hopefully with practise and time I will get better.
It has also helped me to realise the amount of effort and work I need to put in if I am going to achieve anything by the end of the 3 years here. Even though I feel tired and challenged from this project I know there are times where I could have worked harder to achieve a greater result.
In saying all of this I still feel that the final animation does reflect how I envisaged it when I first came up with the story, and skills I have learnt throughout this second term have helped me to do that.
Friday, 20 May 2011
Last scene animated.....
So i have managed to animate the last scene of my animation and it is currently rendering, providing it doesn't crash, which it undoubtedly will then i should be able to pick it up come monday.
I've been working flat out so that i have enough time left to take care of putting it together right with the sound and suchlike. Here for now is a rendered still of the last frame.
I've been working flat out so that i have enough time left to take care of putting it together right with the sound and suchlike. Here for now is a rendered still of the last frame.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Frankenstein meets Frank
This is a rendered still from the first time you realise that the frankenstein that the "doctor" has been working on is in fact a toy, i'm quite happy with the way the daylighting system has worked and shadowed them both.
10 days to go....
So its 10 days till deadline for hand in and my super computer at home has decided to be not so super and die on me, just when i need it most, after angry conversations with pc docs it will be back with me in 10 days time...no good. I have moved on and am determined not to be stopped, my old laptop is having to do more work than it has ever done and so too will the uni computers......
Monday, 9 May 2011
Sunday, 8 May 2011
Daytime scene
My last scene is in the day and so just thought I would start playing around to see how it will look, fairly happy, bit more playing around and we shall be there!
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Update on Room 1 for Roma
just an updated version of the first room with different lighting and a light bulb source, what do you think Roma? 
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