StoryBook

 For our second major project of the year my class was takes with recreating a baby book. oNce completed the books and the animated versions of the books are going to be sent to the children's cancer ward at a hospital. The book I chose was "Who Says Quack?". The book goes through various animals and what sounds they make ultimately leading to the duck which indeed says quack.

 These are the original storyboards for the project.

After the sketches I created my animals in Photoshop.

Once I had all of the animals made i created a background and rotated them off of the scene to follow the pages of the book.

This is the final video, enjoy.

Quarter 2 Project

   

Team Bubble Wrap



       For the second quarter, our class was tasked with making a stop motion animation. We were split into groups of four or five. I took the role of director. i was looking for inspiration on what i wanted to do and came across a video of these guys fighting on grass using coolers and rocks to run and jump on, so I'm thinking a fight scene would be really cool, and the others agreed.


     The  story was basically every time the bubble wrap is popped the gravity shifts. so each would be fighting over it while humorously falling in every direction on the gym floor.
unfortunately we couldn't obtain enough time in the gym to use it. so we had to make due in the hallway.

















       Since we needed a high space to shoot from we grabbed the schools video strand's crane. Once the camera was on the crane we were off shooting for about three days of classes straight. My job souring the filming was to make sure every one kept on track and that the filming was smooth.

      

We came to a few complications with school trips as two of the group were gone for about a week, but we still managed to complete our video. i hope you enjoy it.

 To view my group members blogs click on them here

Sam
Travis
Spencer
Noah
Shawn

Post render critiuque

Looking back on my project (sorry i couldn't post a video it was too large) it was honestly pretty terrible. I plan to go back and fix it by adding more light and render from more than one camera so i have reference points. The ship actually looks pretty good, but the surroundings need help. i plane to find a seamless texture for the sky dome. Hopefully i can fixed everything I need to, and make it look good in the near future.

Sun Timeline

The sun is currently the main reason for the crashes. when I created it I put a giant glow on it then lit the whole thing on fire on the highest settings(it looked awesome for the two seconds I could look at it before the computer crashed)

To fix the lagg problem I turned down the glow and the intensity of the fire. The result was good it appears as lines of fire which gives that alien atmosphere feel.

Track Timeline

Originally i set finish track on my timeline but after i got the dome fixed i realized that it didn't need much to make a good fly through ( not to mention that with all the effects i already had going on i crash maya like 2-8 times a day). So i added some planet stuff.








Anything else added to the track really wasn't needed as i originally thought. funny how projects sometimes work themselves out.

Skydome Timeline

Finding a texture for my sky dome was a harder task than i would have hoped. this was the original and i was so stretched across the sphere it looked awful.

After several tries at trying to find the perfect texture i found this one. I added it to the sphere and it looked amazing.

This is what the texture looks like in rendered view. With the planets i added to the track it is starting to look like a real solar system.

Project 1 timeline

Thursday Sept.25= Fix sky dome, be half way done with Track- The Image wrap around the dome is funky is some places so i need to find a more versatile picture. The Track needs work so its not just flying around i want the ship to be flying a round and through things.

Friday Sept.26  = Finish track- Totally have all the extra flyby objects in place.

Monday Sept.29= Fix Sun fire effect (less buggy) -It is majorly slowing things down right now so maybe i can play with the settings and fix that.

Tuesday Sept.30= add other planetary objects-adding background stuff to give the animation that space feel.

Wednesday Oct.1= render out,fix bugs- Pre-render and watch to make sure it is working properly the way i designed it

Thursday Oct.2= Final Render