Video Production 0.2

Today was actually fun too, instead of operating cameras and recording we were learning how to use EditCut Pro on Macs, which was kinda annoying because Apple Macs are just weird. I managed to see the recordings we did but unfortunately I was able to only get a copy of the recordings we did before, with the girl mentioned in previous post about Video Production. The editing was fun, it was just lots to take on at once so it was fast, but once I understood the functions it wasn't hard.

I was trying to get screenshot of the video and PS was doing something really bizarre. I PrintScreened my screen with the video on, pasted into PS but when I tried to shrink it or move it the image of the video wouldn't move, everything else did but the still of the girl didn't change, no matter how many new files I made or layers, just stayed the same and appeared only in frames of the video player too, regardless of its size. If it doesn't make sense... it didn't to me either.

Anyway, here is the image after I finally found my way around it.

P.S. Fuck QuickTime player and DivX, all fancy and shit and can't play damn MOV video. I had to download VLC player to be able to see it.

Maya 4.1

No animation or modelling today but I have done my first story board for the clown. Tommorow I gotta finish all the other stuff for animation class, like callendar and self-assesment. Might even do more storyboards and will do an animatic, dont have Flash though, so might just use Maya or Photoshop, it will be only a simple thing. I think thats all about that. Took on some more projects but those are about 2D graphic, so will post about it later.

Here is the storyboard and some sketches. The character is going to be simple, but should give enough for Squash and Strech, different timings and overlapping animation. The clown basically will sadly walk into the shot, then bring his unicycle forward so he can sit on it and then get up. He will ride forward, the camera will zoom out and he will turn around and go the other way. Then she slows down and almost falls back, though instead he falls down forward. Sitting on his knees he starts to cry.

Might actually make it a girl clown, will see when I start modelling it.

Maya 4.0

Somehow Maya 2012 refuses to install on my PC, which was a bitch because I uninstalled 2011 first and then had to install it again after successfully failing in getting 2012 installed and of course they are switching to 2012 in uni so half the files I wont be able to open at home. Anyway, we have to do some practice animations for anticipation so I made one with combined stuff we practiced over the two weeks. I have to get down story board for Friday, I either want to do something with a pixie or a sad clown. We have list of emotions and activities, so for now I am thinking Sad Circus Perfomance, I was thinking a clown with unicycle looking really depressed and sad or maybe a Pixie opening a small present while angry. Both might be fun to do.

For the week 2 practice I did character animation about a space rocket, models were given to us. Oh yeah and I got Youtube channel now too, Flickr is annoying with video limit and blogger was bitchy to upload vidoes the other day. http://www.youtube.com/user/LilithPeterAnimation

Maya 3.9

Okay, I didn't finish that plane yet... but I started doing animations again. In this semester we are doing Advanced Character Animation which seems more fun, just not sure what I want to do yet, I think I will do something with fairies/pixies, kind of like a tribute to the work I did in college for my last year assigment when I was learning Flash.

So far we were playing a bit with Graph Editor for animation and then had to make a combined animation with stuff moving in it. We had few practice scenes with target and arrows and ball and such.Here is what I did, here is just a link to Flickr, Blogger was taking a piss uploading it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlilith/6212489508/

Match Moving 0.1

Not much to say for now, beside that it seems really good so far. I am reading this recommended book about Match Moving and I think I will try to get a job as matchmover. It seems like the type of job I'd like to do for a while, can't wait to get started on it.

Video Production 0.1

New (Academic) Year is upon us and so more work, which is quiete exciting. Might have start updating this earlier, but didn't have much to show yet. It week 2 only and I already think the classes are better than before, though also more work at home, especially if I wanna get placement next year.

Anyway, this class is real fun, the teachers are great and the subject is great too. I know some of it from High School so wont be such a problem for me, hopefuly and I am sure with my hand-picked team we can come up with some cool stuff. Our main idea so far is 2 minutes parody of Snow White, not sure what expectaly yet as we all seem to have different ideas, but there will be lots of "easter eggs".

So far we are not focusing on it in the class yet, we only do group meetings to get our  script/storyboard down soon. In the class we had introduction and today we did short filming after training with cameras, which was fun! I got to be the director-ish and camera man for our group. There was also pretty helper girl that we got to record acting, so it was a fun day. Only it was really windy, like a lot so sometime it was hard to keep still.

Some pictures from today of me and my group, my fourth minion was taking the pics so not in the shot =P

Maya 3.8

Had some hard time last few days, so needed to take a break. I think some of it was because I didn't want to end up doing what I do every other day, PhotoShoping, and unfortunately the tutorials were mainly about making the texture in PS. Decided to work on it more today and I like how it came out. Need to finish the rest tomorrow and improve the text on the side. Then there is problem with smooth and UVs going funny on the wings, so might need to fix that too, the smooth edges go over black areas and stripes aren't straight. Other than that I have done the colour map, bump map and specular map.