8 posts tagged “animation”
Oh, how much I love the Weebls toons! Sadly there's no way for me to embed their flash animations here, so I'll have to include the inferior YouTube videos instead and provide a handy link for anyone wanting to see them in all their original glory (they're meant to be watched as a never ending loop, which you can do with Flash but sadly cannot do with a YouTube video).
This is so ... strange. It's completely mind infecting.
The YouTube Awards have been announced and one of my favourite animations won 'Most Adorable'. It's a gorgeous 3D animation by Dony Permedi about a Kiwi (a flightless New Zealand bird) trying to fly.
Nearly finished! I presented my two TVCs yesterday and the irony is that they liked the simple one, the fish, better. So now I have to re-do my bird TVC before the graduate exhibition and make it better by making it simpler. Which will take a fraction of the time it took to make the initial version. If only I'd known in advance, I could have saved so much time and effort!
I won't post the birdie TVC until I've redone it, but for now here's the Fish TVC. The only change that may yet happen is if I get a real charity organisation to agree to put their name to it.
Now I just have to print the documentation, get in bound and submit it. Woo hoo!
Nearly there!
We presented our group project today so there's only one more project and presentation to go. The individual project. The big one. Eek.
I've revised my deliverables - had I known how difficult Maya would be to master there's no way I would have planned to do three TVCs (television commercials). I had anticipated that animating the models would be the most difficult part of the process - in the end it was pretty easy and quick, it was rendering that was an utter nightmare. So I've abandoned the third of the TVCs, but to look on the positive side of things the remaining two TVCs are thirty seconds each instead of the originally planned 15 seconds.So my overall quantity of output is actually higher than expected. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it, anyway!
I've almost finished rendering (did I mention how god-awful rendering is?) so it's just a matter of editing the footage and adding sound and motion graphics. By tomorrow morning. Hahaha. Bloody hell.
The fishie footage is together so I'll upload that right now. I'll add updates as the day progresses. Any feedback would be welcome! I'm having to use a fictional charity group as the focus of the ad because a certain homeless charity in Melbourne (which shall remain nameless) didn't return my emails or calls. I'm planning on calling the pretend organisation 'Aegis Victoria'. If anyone can come up with a better name that hasn't been used, and they're willing to let me have non-exclusive use of it for these ads, I'll be your friend forever! :-)
(A quick word of warning to any fundamentalist Christians: this video contains a rather amusing, irreverent view on the Book of Job. If you have no sense of humour, simply don't click the link.)
I'm finding this blog is an excellent way to hold myself accountable for getting homework done. So I'm going to continue to bore the crap out of young and old and post my homework tasks of the week, then upload proof that each task has been done. And boy is there a list! I found out today that we have a presentation next week for our individual projects. Most people have their footage ready for editing, but most people are doing video instead of 3D. Guess how many idiots picked 3D? One. Me. So I'm weeks behind and I've only just figured out how to put leaves on the stupid tree. On the upside I have my fishie's water bottle modeled.
Now I have to get everything else done so I have at least some footage to show at the presentation next week. Eek!
Tasks for the week:
Monday
- Do rough copy of my comic poster for the group project
Phone Port Phillip council's Urban Art officer to talk about locations for the postersDone! But she's away on leave (>_<). Left a voice-mail message and I'll send her an email with the project details.- Complete first two tasks for the sound editing class
Tuesday
- Nothing. Classes from 8:30am to 8:00pm. No way I'm adding homework on top of that!
Wednesday
- Complete minor character models for individual project (evil crab, bad bird, mamma bird, wasp) and any remaining objects (soft drink can, bird nest, fish's sign)
- Create animatics to judge timing
Thursday
- Do UV maps for models
- Do backgrounds for animation
Friday
- Figure out how the hell you do character rigging in Maya
- Test animations with walk cycles
Saturday
- If character rigging and animation works in Maya, start doing the Birdie animation.
- If character rigging and animation doesn't work in Maya, export the damn models into 3D Studio Max and curse Maya to hell, continuing the project in a program that doesn't baffle and bewilder me at every corner.
Sunday
- Finish off what's possible of the bird animation
- Create a digital presentation for Monday's class
Remind me why the hell I want to stick around next year for Masters?
This is my first attempt at animation in Adobe After Effects. The theme of the project was "passion", which left me in a dilemma given that my current passion is just passing the damn course! In the end I chose to do someone else's passion and create an animation around it. I kinda like the result, but I want to re-record the narration to slow it down (I have some lovely animation sections that were left out because the pace was so quick) and now we're doing sound editing at uni there is a lot I want to change in it.
Anyhoo, here it is. I tried uploading it as an FLV to make the file size much smaller, but for some reason it kept coming up that an error occurred and the file couldn't be viewed. If anyone knows how I can fix this please let me know! The existing file size is enormous because it ended up having to be a Quicktime Movie.
