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.

Rendering

Rendering is going well :) Slow but steady!

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 :)

Happy Puppy Sad Puppy

Jake gets put outside and isn't too happy about this :3
What a cute face.

First scene blocking.

Book scene revamp

Concentrating mainly on the physical interaction between the two, with a few minor touchups elsewhere


Edit: Not a clue what is going on with the eye textures/background flashing... strange.

Final sequence

Been blocking in the movements for the final sequence. This last sequence is very slow paced and was quite easy to do in comparison to the other scenes i've attempted so far. This is due to it being early morning and both characters are still sleepy. And they're quite short, too.

Shot Progression

From Storyboard to Maya!

The Stare

Drawing inspiration from the case study conducted into 'How To Train Your Dragon' by Dreamworks Pictures, I have created a piece of animation that shows the relationship between William and Jake beginning to show through the form of a stare. I felt this was effective in Hiccup and toothless' relationship, especially since it is a similar combination of man and animal. This was useful in considering how to show their relationship gradually building and not just happening.

A New Post!

After a break from blogging, it's time to start posting again.
It's certainly been a busy month of working hard.

William's model has been rigged and skinned, i did all of this myself.
I have been blocking in animation using a quickly constructed environment of william's bedroom and this rigged model. I have been leaving out the puppy's animation because it was not available to me.
The rigging for the puppy character was outsourced to a masters student named James Kyle, who very kindly agreed to help me in exchange for letting him use the polygon model. This has taken a while to get back to me in perfect working condition so i am preparing to animate him from now on.

I have split my animation up into small manageable sections, beginning with what i feel are the two most important, that show william's character transition and the status relationships between the two characters.

Below is the 2nd pass of the blocking for this scene that i have named 'The Book Scene' unofficially.

Missing is the interaction between William and Jake and so this affects the points in which they touch, etc.