That is all.
Monday 21 March 2011
Wednesday 9 March 2011
first meeting.
so, we discussed the many extra parts that come of our new found team, many of which will hopefully be tackled in rough drafts by Monday. Once set, we'll be able to crack right on with the actual work.
The first and main point was the clouds. We've set the final hue to a washed out pink, discreet and only placed on the sky. The clouds and other elements will remain greyscale, and will be transitioned when the camera pans using a quick fade to a blurred animated swipe and fade to the next BG picture.
As for the old shot of Zhuang flying and landing, we spotted a problem where the background isn't moving right to left, but diagonally up. We've decided to make a copy and paste wallpaper that follows this example:
Hopefully it will work, so that will be tested before the next meeting on Monday.
The cel shading elements and slightly translucent overlays to show shadows was tested and now we know it's only on one layer, it'll be easy to trace over.
When all is said and done, there may still be reductions to the length of the entire animation, so I'll whip up a quick story board to make an alternate, shorter animation over the weekend. I'll also be getting my research element out of the way as well.
The first and main point was the clouds. We've set the final hue to a washed out pink, discreet and only placed on the sky. The clouds and other elements will remain greyscale, and will be transitioned when the camera pans using a quick fade to a blurred animated swipe and fade to the next BG picture.
As for the old shot of Zhuang flying and landing, we spotted a problem where the background isn't moving right to left, but diagonally up. We've decided to make a copy and paste wallpaper that follows this example:
Hopefully it will work, so that will be tested before the next meeting on Monday.
The cel shading elements and slightly translucent overlays to show shadows was tested and now we know it's only on one layer, it'll be easy to trace over.
When all is said and done, there may still be reductions to the length of the entire animation, so I'll whip up a quick story board to make an alternate, shorter animation over the weekend. I'll also be getting my research element out of the way as well.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Team member!
I've now gained a helper to do the time consuming work of colouring and background art.
This has a huge amount of benefits, namely:
This has a huge amount of benefits, namely:
* 2x the hands, meaning that the reductions I've had to enforce to finish on the deadline may not be the case any more
* I can get reference easier with her being the camera person.
* Dedicated colour schemer means the possibility of cel shading to make it look more professional.
* The BG will look INFINITELY better than it does now.
* A constant and quick second opinion on my work means I won't sit there and um and arr about things.
* The company will do me good and keep me awake and perky while I work.
* Elle will learn along with me, as I'll teach her a few things as I go.
We will have our first session next Monday. It's shaving it close, but we'll be tanked up on junk food and vigor. I just know it's now going to become something special...
Saturday 19 February 2011
spinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
So I now almost ALMOST have a complete start of fight sequence. I've now officially found a move that makes Zhuang fly, and my God it's a cracker.
Once I've made a wee combo to push Hao towards the screen and preps him for the big move, I can then add actual lines to the entire scene and colour it, then throw it into Maya, make the magic and then bam, awesome.
I might enlist help to colour actually... It's very time consuming. First things first though, make this great.
Once I've made a wee combo to push Hao towards the screen and preps him for the big move, I can then add actual lines to the entire scene and colour it, then throw it into Maya, make the magic and then bam, awesome.
I might enlist help to colour actually... It's very time consuming. First things first though, make this great.
Sunday 13 February 2011
FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT
Ok, so far I'm pretty happy. The final final move is a bit of a problem though. The angles are hurting my mind, and I'm stuck as to what to make Hao do to re-switch back into his place to lead up to the big old skyward smash.
My many attempts ended in positions that made me want to hack apart the entire scene again, so I'm now going to attempt to make Hao spin round all Michael Jackson like, landing a turning kick into Zhuang's left side, ducking Zhuang's attempt to hook kick him back and then switching scene to have Hao scoot forward into an awesome uppercut thing.
My many attempts ended in positions that made me want to hack apart the entire scene again, so I'm now going to attempt to make Hao spin round all Michael Jackson like, landing a turning kick into Zhuang's left side, ducking Zhuang's attempt to hook kick him back and then switching scene to have Hao scoot forward into an awesome uppercut thing.
Friday 11 February 2011
Tuesday 1 February 2011
that last post progress
Excellent... Just needs sky, masks, dust and rendering...
I placed the 2D animation inside an image plane in Maya and used it as a reference. This is probably one of the harder angles I'll be doing, thus I'm quite lucky it worked when I drew the frames with only a vague idea of the distance and angles. I now know the method works and that the two sit well together.
Originally I thought I would need to reduce the framerate of the 3D part to match up to the not quite as smooth 2D parts, but after this, I believe that the 3D part actually lends itself to the 2D part, giving the illusion that the 2D element has far more frames than it does.
This has solidified my faith in this project completely.
SWEEEEEEEEET
I placed the 2D animation inside an image plane in Maya and used it as a reference. This is probably one of the harder angles I'll be doing, thus I'm quite lucky it worked when I drew the frames with only a vague idea of the distance and angles. I now know the method works and that the two sit well together.
Originally I thought I would need to reduce the framerate of the 3D part to match up to the not quite as smooth 2D parts, but after this, I believe that the 3D part actually lends itself to the 2D part, giving the illusion that the 2D element has far more frames than it does.
This has solidified my faith in this project completely.
SWEEEEEEEEET
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