ok so i havent been doing be blog for alot of reasons however im happy to say during the time of no blogs i have animated all the characters at least a few time however still some gliches with skins and stuff but with a little help can be rectified quickly im in the process of compiling all of my scenes into a story of some sorts lol its become a huge blur of shitness

week 7 priest and ghost 90% done of texturing just waiting for chris to finish mapping hair beards and beanie bad guy im mapping at the moment

week 6 have bit off more than i can chew however its to late to turn back now have finished ghost textures and starting the priest next week i have taken some snap shots of my city with lighting and cnat wait to start animating

stage 6 week 5 chris again has been happy to continue on with helping me start to map i have the t shirt done except for the design on the front which i need to take a photo of by this week i will have most the characters done

stage 6 week 4 started mapping my character and finishing off my my blocking still need to put storyboards in said block chris has been helping fix up my character for mapping and still not done beginning to lose my mind due to lack of maya skills but all i can do now is keep trucking

stage 6 week 3 had monday and thurs day off due to illness basically didnt do mu this week

stage 6 week 2 continued on with my modeling of main character and as jack said began bookmarking my shots and preparing to put them in aftereffects to become a video block that helps me animate easier my goals are to have all shots ready and blocked out by 5 weeks

stage 6 week 1

first week back to school mainly continued on with modelling my characters and in jacks class we were learning about depth perception and focus also a little about camera attributes such as lens flares and focus in matthews lecture we disscussed our projects and how to promote them what film festivals we would think putting our animation in and so on neale and hunis class was basically talking about movement and principles of animation and doin our productions in between that

week 9 established concept art using pics ive drawn and photos using photoshop last week but mainly on the weekend and thats all i have really done for pre prod this week. did some walk cycles in maya using a basic rig.

week 10 basically continueing on model li and chris have help me out of class which is a massive help just with modelling using mudbox and just creating good muscle defornition and now we are probably going to start using aftereffects instead of fusion.

week 11 garret and i were messing around in photoshop trying to create destroyed buildingsfor after effects for my opening scene with z depth to c if thats a better alturnite to maya city shot

week 6 finished first pass of storyboards but still not sure about it may or may not re do it starting filming for our comps in fusion with darren of us using a remote to make a penguin or teddy bear explode not real ones of course though. learning about deformation in jacks class bit of a brain buster however very interesting.

week 7 most of week was sick however darrens class was filming again for fusion comp and in jacks class continued doing deformation. i have decicded that i will be using maya for my major im not quite sure i can do it its more to try everything and not stick with 2d the whole time.

week 8 began modelling my character in maya not that i really know what im doing just so i get practise and also for learning how to rig as character. making my marqeutte for darrens class on fridays . finished second pass storyboards pretty happy with keeping the way it is however changing the script

i have been informed that i can see some of my posts however no one else can so i got the problem sorted out however im not doing this thinking i'll be graded im doing it so my teachers can actually see something on my blog

week 1 and 2 was not at school

week 3 began a story for a graphic novel hobbie over the holidays so i have decided to use two of the characters i designed to make a sub story about my comic the story is a priest teaching a young man the ways of war in a post apocalyptic australia i'm going to be doing it in 3d which is not my strong suit but im really excited on doing it.
jacks class. we are going through the basics in jacks class learning about rigging and hireichy which will be continued throughout the semester.

week 4 mike and i began doing my script for my story i went for the idea of the priest saying a verse out of the old testement which is very wrath of god and perfect for my idea i got influence from pulp fiction when jules says it before he kills people i started on doing my thumbnails and began my model sheets. i have also been practising how to model characters in maya which is hard for me due to the fact i have no maya modeling experiance prior to this project.

week 5 finished model sheets and have submitted treatment to my story because it should have been handed in before i wrote my script i have also begun my storyboards but im still not to sure if i want it the way i've done it so far

week 6 7 8 will begin in new post

journal

due to me not doing journals i have decicded to do them properlly now the last couple of weeks i have been modeling my characters in maya and learning more about rigging characters and the appropriate format for it in darrens class we have been learning about aftereffects which is brilliant

week 8

due to family issues i really didnt do a blog over the holidays and didnt really do much work either however i have found alot of background styles i want for my animation as seen with the priest in the destroyed monestary and ghsot in the city

sorry

sorry to the teachers my week 6 is said week 7 and last week is 6

wk 6

for the first 2 weeks i wasnt at school however in the 3 week i pitched my story to huni and neale and began choosing my style of animation and learnt how to rig a spine in jacks class 4th week continued on my model sheets and contributing with chris and kavindas model sheets and started modeling in clay for my character. last week i had finished my script and thumbnails and was taught more about rigging and learning walk cycles this week im finishing off my model sheets for my characters and expression sheets and will begin concept art tomorrow

about time

ok so now that i have figured this out i will start posting and blogging for school