Senior year Project

Senior year is finally here! This year i want to create an animation in maya or after effects I'm not sure yet. The animation will be two teams of football players (ONW)(ON). the two teams would run at each other and north would get absolutely destroyed. I plan to do  very simple design with the players, the pal is to make the boys and helmets but no limbs so i don't haft to keyframe like 20 sets of arms and legs. I hope to get started on this project soon and will update the blog with my progress.

Year Overview

As my Junior year is finally wrapping up, I'm going to go over all of my projects that I have done this year.

The first project i did this year was my 3D character. I did finally figure out what happened, somehow the character got fixed to a point on itself, so the body was kinda welded together.

The second project i worked on was the stop-motion animation. This was probably one of my favorite projects that i did this year. It took a lot of patience, but the result was good.

My third project was to animate a baby book to be sent to a children's cancer ward. I really enjoyed this project. it was very basic because it needed to be. The project was very rewarding to know that it will go to help make kids smile.

The Final project of this year was to do green screen or layering. My group and I decided to create a holotable ( holographic table). It was fun to make and it was fairly simple. After the city was created we rendered it as wireframe and them made it match up with the live video

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.