DPS 0.4

This is the slowest project we are working on it, the presentation should be and is easy to make, but some people seems to just fuck about and not doing their work fast enough. I am sure we'll do well enough, but the point is we could be doing much better. Gah, we'll see how it goes. Fortunately its only the first year.

Flash 0.8

Almost there with the drawings, should be...no, must be done this week.

Maya 0.6

I have been side tracked by a personal project (can be seen on my Flicrk) so I didn't spend much time doing modeling of the lamp character. I started with basic Aplha version, I might make it bit more detailed later.

Flash 0.7

Spent too much time in bed, didn't do as much as I planned to, but I will...tomorrow. Only did some more drawings of the girl character. Also, drawing from scratch in Flash can be a pain, I find it much easier to at least start by tracing my drawing, hence that sheet with doodles in the pics.

 

Flash 0.6

So finally some update, didn't realized it has been a whole week. Didn't do much, but should have. Started to draw backgrounds and characters in Flash for the animation and it has to be done by end of this week so I am ready to start animating. It has been lil harder than I thought it would be and my Flash managed to crash once, making me loose a lot...need to save more often. Anyway, something to show. My background, hope they will work and base for the girl character. I am working in colours for now, but the final animation will be in black and while, maybe some little colours. The lines and colouring is purposefully "bad", I like it that way and saves me time, less time I spend on drawings, more time for animation.

 

Flash 0.5

Just a quick update about today's presentation. It went good! They like it and I got some useful pointers and ideas. Now just to animate the whole thing.

Flash 0.4

Finally! Storyboard finished. Took way too long, I should have work on it much earlier. Wasn't as easy as I thought it would, but hey, I managed to finish it like 12 hours before I'll be presenting it, so all good. My final idea is about a zombie offering its heart to a girl that left flowers on its grave. This is storyboard put together from different pics I drew in my book.

And the final one. 

Maya 0.5

Time management, I need better time management! I never do the stuff I said I am gonna do, I feel like I waste too much time on stuff, but I don't even remember what I am doing whole day...bah..nvm...I started on this animation, combining few previous models I did. Its only few hours work and rendered on preview quality and then compressed video, so yeah the quality kinda sucks. I still have issues with making proper nice videos from sequences. I really need to get that AfterEffects program.

Flash 0.3

Did some quick testing of frame-by-frame animation in Flash. If I will want to do whole 30s like this it will take quite some time and some thinking. Because I'll need to decide what part exactly will move and which won't to save myself some time. In the test animation everything but one arm, eye and lips are still image. I think got an idea for my animation too. A girl walking to a graveyard to place some flowers down, there will be a boy or another girl who does the same, he/she gives a flower (or something like that) to the first character and they smile. The end. Will see if I stick with it as I do the story board. 

P.S. Need to figure out how to make Flash animation smaller to upload them here.

Flash 0.2

I got to admit I didn't thought it would be this hard, seriously my brain just doesn't feel up to this at all. I was putting it aside because I thought it will be quick and easy. Yea, well, bullshit. I have brainstormed some ideas, but so far nothing that would really inspire me. Next week gotta make a presentation and I need something I believe has potential. On brighter note, I have started some quick character sketches. I dont like manga, but there is one animation I saw I kinda like, so I started with character based off that just to get me started.

                          

Then I went to Flash and started do some drawings on top of those, which I have surprisingly quite enjoyed. I am seriously considering drawing all frames by hand like that when I start doing the animation, though I should do some small tests first. The colours in picture below were dont quickly just like the lines, not exactly perfect, but it does the job of what colours I had in mind and I kinda like it.

Next step is come up with story idea and draw a presentable storyboard. I think thats all I gotta say for now about the Flash project.

Maya 0.4

The finished animation of the lamp. I really like the lamp and yeah I love Pixar, so I think I will be using the lamp a lot, or similar one this semester. I'll animate the shit out of it. Even made myself new wallpaper of the jumping lamp, might post it later.

Also this is very first design of the LampDude, I drew it in Animation class quickly, what pretty much might end up my main character for lots of stuff. Will see how it goes, I hope to animate it over the weekend. Feel to sick now. Also need to look at constraints again, I forgot everything about'em.

DPS 0.3

We held meeting on Wednesday after drawing class, only like half of us had done something, so we all agreed we ALL will have something by next week. We really need to speed this up, so we don't end up like last time. At least I made sure they all know what to do.

Maya 0.3

A week without connection was hell, slowed my progress a lot. But I finished the lamp animation, once I figure out how to save my rendered frames in reasonable video format I'll upload it.

DPS 0.2

We got our mark for the group assignment today and did pretty awesome, 77%. More than I have expected. For now we are sticking with the original ideas of each of us making a slide or two, put it together next week and see how long it'll be. I have few days to make it my slides and I think I know what I am doing, so shouldn't take too long. Just need to cut my pages down and figure out what to talk about.

P.S. We need to find Richard, he has been missing, again.
P.S.S. I got 81.8% on written exam =D Today was a good day.

Maya 0.2

Just a quick something this morning. Got back into doing Escape tutorials and started with the animations ones, so far pretty helpful with constraints and rigging. Also got an idea for my 3D character, will try to make it look like a mix between skeleton and a robot, will see how that goes.

Flash 0.1

Last post for now, till I actually done some work. So the theme is "Boy meets a girl", should be simple enough to get storyboard down over the weekend. I am not sure about what I want yet, because I have no clue what level they expect us to be on, so I won't do any Flash work till later when we see some examples of previous year work, I think it should help. For now I just want it to look dark and someone will die in it, thats always fun.

Maya 0.1

Jason keeps saying we should keep a diary or a blog of our projects, so here it is. We gotta make an animation of a character doing something funny. I am still not sure what I want to do, have only few ideas, need to do some brainstorming. Then should look more into Escape tutorials and start modeling my scene. Well, I suppose sorry board gotta come first. Will see what can I do over the weekend.

DPS 0.1

So, we came back from the xmas break and currently waiting for results of the previous part of the assignment. We had some discussion about how we want to continue and all agreed we need to work faster than last time. Should be easy enough, I'll try to work on my presentation slide on Friday...yeah, like thats gonna happen, I think it'll be done over weekend though. I think thats all for now, now to post this on FB.

Hello world

Pretty stupid title, heh? But its the first post so live with it. I suppose introduction would be in place, I am Peter. Starting this blog at 2nd of February 2011, 13:36 to help me keep track of some university project. I do find it easier than use Word or Notepad, also easier to share with classmates on my assignment group. I think for next few months I'll be trying to write about Maya and Flash assignment and group project for DPS class. If you wondering who is Lilith, long story short, my artistic alter-ego. I think thats enough for the first post to test this thing.

Live longer and prosper,
Lilith