Maya 2.2

Been finishing off my 2D stuff so didn't work on the 3D much since last post, which I need to start real soon, deadline next Friday. I think I have the main portion of my animation done and just need to finish the rest, and I am thinking of some story too. Will need to do that tomorrow, and then do as much as possible over the weekend. Had slight issue with some files, texture path went wrong and in uni all of them did, but its fixable. Also was show some cool Mentalray thing to generate sky and sun, which is great, but somehow too strong for my needs, I think I will just go with standard lights. The test renders I did it look like he is on a beach lol I want kinda dark-ish, foggy forest.

Flash 1.9

All done and ready to be submitted. I went through the list of Principles of Animation and think I got them all at least partially, will see what the teachers will think. Added some more effects in After Effects and background music, which was a bitch to pick because I wasn't sure what I want. I tried Marylin Manson stuff and even Bleeding Through, but it was too fast for the old look I was going for with the black and white and 8mm film effect. So at the end I chose a slow song that sounds like a music box, I think it goes with the animation well. I will show it to few people before submitting, so might do little changes here and there, but this is what I am happy with.

If I had more time I would like to draw more of the frames, instead relying on the Tween feature so much, I think it might give it bit more personality and to me more control. It doesn't entirely match my storyboard, had to cut off the scene with the hand, changed the Girl's reaction and also made her a vampire, I think it makes more sence rather than a goth girl in the woods, which I like, but people might not get it.

DPS 0.9

Hm, somehow forgot all about this. Already finished the Individual Evaluation and submitted it. The 1000 words Critical Essay is half way there, wrote down 1000 words and have list of my references, now just need to stick them inside the report and make it more readable. Which I gotta do tomorrow and Monday, since Tuesday is deadline.

Flash 1.8

Adobe After Effects are awesome, helped me to get my animation all sexy. And I don't even need some Play button, coz the thing doesn't loop when I save it as SWF from AE. I think I will work on some bits a bit more and add short credits I suppose. Only drawback is it wont stretch anymore, which is not such a bad thing and it stay nice and neat in frames, like you don't see the shit around it thats outside the frame.  I might add some more effects than only Black&White, but will do that tomorrow and then ready to submit finally.

Flash 1.7

Seriously I felt so stupid not so long ago, I been trying to figure out how to play movie clips in the scene for ages, like they did play in SWF movie, but now while editing or exporting as images or AVI. And its so fucking simple to do. I been trying shit like Actionscript and all you need to do is click on the object in the scene and in properties set its behavior to "Graphic" and not "Movie Clip". You can even select from which frame its starts, which is pretty useful. I might need to go around the animation and fix up few timings here and there, but if I knew this like two days ago my life would have been much much easier. Anyway, I managed to finaly export it was JPGs and use PhotoLapse (free program that converts JPGs into AVIs) to make a video, its kinda low quality and only Alpha version, but it'll do for preview.

Flash 1.6

Late post after a long day. After getting home from drawing class in the museum I felt really tired and uninspired to do work, but I pushed myself into it. Needed to finished that scene with raising Zombie. I figured how to do it, but problem was with the bloody layers, I needed body on one, dirt in the middle and hands between, fucking nightmare, took me many times and I redid it many times to get something I was happy with, still if I had more time I'd draw it frame by frame rather than using tweens for those 30 or so frames, it would saved me lots of frustration but it would take too long, time I don't have. Deadline is next Tuesday and I still need to polish it, write my essay and do the 3D animation.

I think on my list to finish this is: Do the reaction scene, clean the file, touch-up all the objects, add Play button, figure out easy and quick way to make greyscale (which I should look up tomorrow and try to do it on Friday in uni). So yeah, I think I will do my best to finish it tomorrow, then do 3D and finish of the critical report.

Hopefully with the next post or soon I'll include the animation itself =D

Maya 2.1

Done more of the scene and imported it to the animation file, so now the PumpkinDude has something to dig to. Only problem so far is with world axis and how to change it and then with the forest background, need to find some better way, maybe I'll try to do it in after effects. Oh and need to work more with the lights, it look all right from the first angle.