Saturday, March 19, 2011

SCENE 1, 2, 3, and 5 UPDATE! (March 19, 2011)

Woo! Lots of things to update today! Scene 1 I touched up on Thursday. I didn't update my blog until now though. I DO have a better rendered version, but that will have to wait until I put it all together.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCENE 1

Scene 2 took WAY longer than it should have... and yet, I dunno. It's at least better than it was previously. The arms are actually animated! (Animation layers saved me on this >.>)

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCENE 2

Scene 3 is still in the works. This is the only scene that isn't exactly complete. I hope to do this scene this weekend. Wish me luck! (Holy hell the fire walk is hard to animate! @_@)

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCENE 3 (or whatever I have of it)

Scene 5 is working out... I don't really get what Derek was saying about the "GUAR-AN-TEE" part, but apparently he didn't like it, while everyone else seemed to like it. Confusing critique. >_>; Oh well, I did what I could. It followed my reference well enough I thought. Also, Moom is a bit more animated. What happens to Moom in the end wasn't intentional, but eh, I guess it replaces the gag from scene 4.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SCENE 5

If you're wondering about Scene 4, well, it's not gonna happen. For some reason, these 4 scenes take up plenty enough time on their own. Scene 4 had to be scrapped. I do apologize to those who really wanted to see Moom get decapitated by a shuriken.

I really can't wait until next week... I'll finally have some free time for once! ;_;

Monday, March 14, 2011

Pi Day update (3/14/2011)

I decided I'd show what I have of the whole reel so far.

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For some reason, the audio doesn't seem to have the right sync. It's not a HUGE worry though. It's just a matter of moving the audio a frame or two. The music will need to be re-edited.

Scene 3 is currently what I'm working on. The fire walk animation. That... is pretty difficult. I just recorded some reference of myself to hopefully help with what I'm animating:

Scene 3 will be worked on this week, and if I have time, I will get around to working on tweaking all of the scenes to near-perfection (I will try for perfection).

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Scene 5 - Updated further (March 9, 2011)

Guy's animation is there, and Guy's lip-sync is there. all that's left now is to fix up Moom's run a bit more, and then I can move on. Honestly though, Guy's animation in this scene was probably the EASIEST thing I've done in this whole demo reel. I'm eager to start working on Scene 3 again, and finally finishing that up.

For now, have a look at Scene 5 (nearing completion):

Scene 3 is still in the very early stages of blocking... still a lot to do in that scene. I think the fire walk itself may actually be the hardest part of the whole demo reel. I better get to it.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Scene 5 Update - March 7, 2011

I've been working on Scene 5 (closing scene) for the last few days. I think I've got Moom's running and jumping finished, but I still need to animate him falling, and getting crushed under the cabin. That'll come after I finish Sensei's animation in Scene 5. I've done SOME work on scene 4, but not enough to get it critiqued. I've also done some work fixing Scene 2, but it's unfinished, and it's a mess right now.

For now, here's a close-up of Moom's run and jump animation:

And here's what everyone would see of Moom from the actual camera in Scene 5:
NOTE: Camera movement isn't final. I think I did a shitty job implementing the changes made to the camera. Moom used to be jumping a lot higher (basically jumping to the moon and back within a second), and that I changed the timing for when Moom appears on camera. It will be changed in the next capture. The other reason I changed the camera was because my original camera didn't show Guy's body all that much (it just showed his head at the bottom of the screen), so I found a better camera angle to show Guy and Moom better in this scene. The trees are also hidden for now. Cabins still don't have a finalized texture, but that's not my main concern.

The next plan of action is to block in Guy's animation in Scene 5. I had a block in of Guy V1, but that was from 3 months ago. I have some actual video reference for it now.

Scene 3 also has some video reference of Guy. I have reference for someone fire-walking, and failing, but it's not the greatest. For some reason, it's hard finding reference for people failing a fire walk. However, I will do the best I can with what I have.