Animated Piece

Well here's the link to the final animated piece:

https://vimeo.com/42160537

Didn't turn out as well as i'd hoped, as a correlation of all my hard work, but through this project I have learned enough to make it greatly worth it, and I hope to produce a high standard of work in the future.

I plan to look into acting to inform my knowledge of natural movements, as that seemed to be missing from my study, and was apparent in my animation.

Exporting Time

Well it's come to that time of the year :) Expect a post involving the final rendered animation some time next week, this blog's getting exported for the Honours Project module hand in :)

Thanks so much to all my followers, it's been great to see people's interest in my work, and I hope you are not disappointed by the final results!

To those reading this as part of my submission, welcome, and enjoy.

Rendering

Rendering is going well :) Slow but steady!

Rendering

It's rendering time folks!
How exciting.
Compositions to follow, how even more exciting :)
Hoping i can find a great soundtrack online.

Lighting and Rendering Tests

As I know next to nothing about lighting, and slightly further from nothing about rendering, I can only determine what will work best for my animation by simple trial and error. For starts, I've set up a weak ambient light complimented by a stronger spot light to create a few shadows around William and I'm deciding which software I will choose to render with.

Maya Hardware

Maya Software

Maya Vector

Mental Ray

Personally I am very tempted to make the whole thing in Maya Vector, what a brilliant little setting :D

It's between Mental Ray and Maya Software, then. A test of render timing for each will make the decision for me.

Character Arc

The two things i am implementing into my animation are reflective of my studies into how personality is shown through movment and how relationships can affect this personality, by introducing a character arc to illustrate the evolution.
William goes from a reserved, isolated, but content, bachelor to realising that a little company can be good for him, and he lightens up considerably, becoming a lot more relaxed and outgoing in his movements. For a man of such serious nature, Jake the puppy sure brings out a smile in his face.

Slipper Scene posed

Not 100% finished with posing, but near enough.
The stolen slipper scene!
Complete with bouncing ears.
Still needs a lot of work, sadly, but having a break from this scene for now. (That, and uni is about to close :)