Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Discussions and Fixups, among other things.
Have had a great deal of feedback from discussions with Jeremy and Kate on Tuesday and am now at 3/4 way of finishing the scene fixes for the film.
Was not too happy with the falling motion of UNmarked when she gets flicked out of screen by the father so I have decided to hunt for some motion-capture data on the internet. I found the 'ENDORPHIN-Virtual Motion Capture' (view demo videos here). Downloaded some of their demo videos of biped characters falling and i found one that i particularly liked. Took a few snapshots and used those images as reference to keyframe animate a falling motion for UNmarked. I'M REALLY CHUFFED WITH THE RESULT!
Anyway, the 3 PCs are still at the receiving end of lots of working nights, busy churning out the scene fixes that i've animated. The movie is sitting together heaps better now.
Will be getting the music files from Chris next week, which is when i intend to only be doing editing and sound. NO MORE ANIMATING NEXT WEEK! I HAVE TO HAVE A CUT-OFF POINT! (KATE ARE YOU READING THIS? hahaha just kidding).
All in all, I am quite pleased with the movements of the characters as I wanted to achieve a rather cartoony "snappy" sort of movement for all the characters to break away from the typical 'smooth' look on alot of 3D animated shorts. Again thanks to some great tips and tricks from keithlango animations.
Was not too happy with the falling motion of UNmarked when she gets flicked out of screen by the father so I have decided to hunt for some motion-capture data on the internet. I found the 'ENDORPHIN-Virtual Motion Capture' (view demo videos here). Downloaded some of their demo videos of biped characters falling and i found one that i particularly liked. Took a few snapshots and used those images as reference to keyframe animate a falling motion for UNmarked. I'M REALLY CHUFFED WITH THE RESULT!
Anyway, the 3 PCs are still at the receiving end of lots of working nights, busy churning out the scene fixes that i've animated. The movie is sitting together heaps better now.
Will be getting the music files from Chris next week, which is when i intend to only be doing editing and sound. NO MORE ANIMATING NEXT WEEK! I HAVE TO HAVE A CUT-OFF POINT! (KATE ARE YOU READING THIS? hahaha just kidding).
All in all, I am quite pleased with the movements of the characters as I wanted to achieve a rather cartoony "snappy" sort of movement for all the characters to break away from the typical 'smooth' look on alot of 3D animated shorts. Again thanks to some great tips and tricks from keithlango animations.
