Saturday 30 April 2011

Over the past few days I have just been colour editing and compositing backgrounds with animation...funfun..all in time for the rough draft hand in!...I will put an updated version of it all soon..however I just wanted to put up this scene as our Celt Weylin now has a shadow...



...oh yeh...

Wednesday 27 April 2011

...and this is how it all begins...

Tuesday 26 April 2011

new term...not that the last one ever really ended...

We now have a few days before the rough cut hand in, only a few bits of animation left to do..but a lot of tweaking with the stuff that has been done already, making the backgrounds fit, making the pans link up, getting the names on the tree etc...lots of little things that will most probably take a long time...
So as I am only making small scene changes I have very little to put up on here. Below is an example of things I am adding in such as names just to show what I'll be doing over the next few days. Today I have also celaned up colouring on two other scenes and added in things to the stag scene such as grass that he is pulling at and him getting his antlers stuck in the tree etc.
I am hoping to get all of these small changes as well as the last bits of animation and backgrounds completed for the rough draft so that after that there is literally effects/shadows/titles/sound to do....Oh and the press pack, DVD cases/covers/posters/dvd menus/ professional practise/presentations/write ups/websites/cvs/showreels/business cards/innovations project....so not much then?!?

Thursday 21 April 2011

animation update...

Wednesday 20 April 2011

Here's an update of the animation...most of the completed background designs are now in apart from the dog walking scene as the software at uni couldn't handle it, the railwaymen scene as it's still being coloured, pans and other odd bits. It's looking a lot more finished now which is great, but there's still loads to do. As we have pretty much got through my first list of layouts/rough animation/clean up/colouring, I have made a new chart more for the compositing side of things including which backgrounds have been finalised, which compositions have been tested to make sure the backgrounds definitely work with the animation, notes, which backgrounds have been put into scenes in layers and what effects are needed. After getting through the first few stages I'm hoping we can then go through scene by scene and note down every possible effect/shadows/post production that needs to be done on each shot and just start to work our way through them! so...thats the plan. For the rough cut hand in, I would really love the final bits of animation that the second years are working on to be done and all the scenes to be in colour including the pans etc...

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Another updated version of the animatic,so far only up to the picnic scene has got the final backgrounds in layers as the next scene with the dogwalker is massive and so crashes a lot..think it's going to take some time to get that one done..so we are getting there...but there's still lots more to come..


Monday 18 April 2011

Below is some of the work I have been doing over the past couple of days.
I have animted and coloured the scene with the Celt in it which goes on from the first two scenes that Alberto is working on, which we will hopefully have soon to add to the start of this one.



I have also done smaller background animation which will only be seen in passing as the camera pans, so this just needs colouring now...



Over the past few days, Harriet has been putting lots of finished backgrounds into drop box so I have also been putting the backgrounds in their layers in toon boom and making sure all of the animation fits and works with them. This unfortunately takes a lot longer then I thought it would however it's really bringing the scenes together now. I havn't been posting these as I have just been putting them straight into the animatic which I will post again updated very soon, but this is an example scene of the backgrounds composited with the animation. It all needs shadows and quite a few scenes need effects, but it's getting there...


Friday 15 April 2011

animatic update... It's getting more colourful! Everything that is final animation is actually now coloured...I just missed bits out when trying to do a really quick update and export when leaving the studio today..I'll make it better when I have more time! the music is also out of synch here...but when edited properly it's sounding really good and timed wonderfully! I have more sound effects and foley now, but they recorded extremely quietly and premiere wasn't very useful in playing with the levels so I'll put them in when I've changed them using the correct sound editing software, which will hopefully work a little better...So, small bits of background animation, pans, and city time-lapses still to do, and probably a lot of editing and playing around with things...but it's getting there!

Thursday 14 April 2011

Wednesday 13 April 2011

animation update...




...and other work from today...







Tuesday 12 April 2011

Monday 11 April 2011

and this one...

I got three of the shorter scenes coloured today, all of which I am quite pleased with now. I think they are looking better now they are coloured and I can't wait to put them with their backrgounds...when the software lets me....
I was a little worried about the number of scenes left to colour, however as they are all broken down into short ones like these, if I can keep to doing 3 a day, with Chloe colouring as well and Leki coming back soon now, I don't think we will have a problem!






Friday 8 April 2011

Animatic Update...






Thursday 7 April 2011

Just got some more scenes coloured today and put the animatic together a little more...



Wednesday 6 April 2011

Finishing the colour, shading and adding the background in this scene...

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Animatic updated with some sound tests...







Monday 4 April 2011

Updated animatic...






work from today...


Saturday 2 April 2011

Friday 1 April 2011