Ted Stapletons University Blog

Running animation test.  Lipsync animation test. Gorm improved Turnaround.  Improved animatic which is shorter and with more sounds. My final plan for my the coming final weeks of my project: I intend to complete my characters models, particularly the textures for them before the month is over as well as the environments which I need to create more models for. I hope to start animating before the month is up. Because of the simple influences for my animation I should be able to create the majority of props and environments in an short amount of time, the latter is not overly complex. I'll be able to create turnarounds for both characters and demonstrate Gorms squash and stretch and complex facial animations. I also intend to work on editing the story and content of my animated short such as improving the animatic further, getting new sound work and better voice acting for the short and even some music. My back up plan would be to demonstrate my animation capabilites, creat...

 

 

My robot - a walker  

 

 

For my animatic I decided to go for a hybrid of a traditional animatic and a 3d pre-visualization  

Pose created. Spine had to be adjusted to make it seem more flexible. Reference image  

 

 

Completed Facial Rig Rivets completed.

Test render of my pre_viz island illuminated with a physical light. I modelled the island as if it were actually a set or prop placed on a flat plastic surface meant to be the sea.

In Mudbox the bumpmaps were created for the trees. I was trying to go for a hashed-together look for the trees as if they were plastic toys with imperfectics, wear and tear or clay.

Corrective shapes were made to the joints and mesh of the character so to appear more articulate and have less clipping with the limbs.  It also helped the character feel more organic. 

Elbow Weights Torso weights. During this process I ran into an issue where the joints did not align with the mesh so i used the move skinned weights to correct them.