EDIT/SOUND!!!!

whew!!!



getting everything from comp into editing. Adding some sound and adjusting levels and such. Pretty straight forward from here.

COMPING!

MY FAVORITE PART....well not really...its all my favorited part....doomed to be a jack of all trades but a master of none.



Anyway. Here is a look at my script.

















Everything is looking pretty good. Final gather isn't flickering and no weird things yet. There does apear to be one weird slip of one of the tracks, but i'm not telling you...hopefully you won't notice it.

Animation done...

now rendering my brains out!!!!

Everything looks like it went fairly smoothly. Some of my rigs provided some limitations i wasn't expecting...so i'll prolly try to redo those. Can't wait to see some renders and start comping.

Layout

Here is a video of my layout. Pretty much just character placement. ITs playblast so its not pretty.



...well it would have been there but blogger doesn't like movs. I'll work on getting it up when i get a sec.

Rigging....

...sucks.

So I'm trying to teach myself cause I'm stubborn. I get most of it...but i want to get into the advanced stuff...like muscles and stuff. So, further i dig myself into a hole...














So this is the basic skeleton i'm doing. I have ik handles on arms and legs. Trying to get some locators put on to keep him always wanting to be on the ground. we'll see how that goes...might have to return to this at a later date.

UVs

starting to UV my models. and there has to be an easier way. I think some programs can do a nice unwrap on most models...but this one was done by hand....and it took forever!

















i know it doesn't seem like it would take forever...but it does...selecting sewing...cutting...sewing..christ, its a process.

Anyway i think the other models will have a more lax UV pattern. They're going to be fairly far from camera and rendered like vinyl toys. Smooth plastic. So yeah.

MODELS!!!!!!

I'm pretty happy with how these came out. There is some stuff on the unicorn i wish i could have gotten to come out a little better...but i'll take it. I really like the loch ness monster. I added some fish hooks too her...that prolly won't be scene...but its nice to know they are there.

on to uv mapping!


P.S. - i am thinking about a giant but for time sake i'm just going to manipulate the cyclops and blur him real good in the background. No one should be able to tell. shhhhhhhh