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

TRACKING

whew....now i'm tracking.














Most of the plates are coming ok, i'm getting werid translation slips in some though....and a whole lot of subpixel drifting.

Boujou is pretty good for the most part...i hear good things about syntheyez so i might run some of the plates through that again to see if it gets better.

but here is the scene that boujou spits out in maya...












You can see i added geometry here to help with tracking and eventualy scene integration. But all those green dots are the track points boujou tracks and places.

I Have a Direction

So i'ts going to be a mock PSA for the Inetrnational Society for Unmythiczing(sp?) Mythical Creatures. This is coming from one of my pet peves of calling ancient greek religion mythology. You can't prove your own religion is right so why discredit theirs? I like the idea of many gods, one for each emotion. Their Religion is more fun and has better stories.

HDRs

when i was on location shooting the HD footage i also took HDR panos that i'll use to light the scenes in maya so the models get a close representation of the lighting thats occuring in the footage.

Each pano is about 7 exposures of 8 different sections of a complete 360 degrees. Stitching these takes forever because i used a high resolution camera so i could get good reflections in the sym water i'm planning for the river shots.

FOOTAGE!

ok. so i've been out filming. Been kinda rough, but i think i got some good stuff i can mold into something solid.

here's some stills...

Character Designs

working on character designs. Here are a few sketches i'm not embarassed by. I'm a better sculpter than a drawer so more posts of these guys will be in 3D space.

I like the plastic rings around her neck. Makes her look weak and pathetic. I'll prolly ad more in 3D. The hair might have to go.

He's rocking rose colored glasses cause he's an optimist at heart who hopes for a better future. I like the dumpyness of him....though he sort of has a drew carey thing going on here.

insperation

So now i'm driving from the inspiration i get from Charlie White and Brian McCarty. Both photographers who's subjects are often elaborate dolls or toys.

charlie white....














brian mccarty....

oh yes....

MYTHICAL CREATURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!