Semester 2 Motion studies reel

It has been named Rescue Tail (like a dogs tail. Took all my brain power to think of that)

Promotional material:

DVD Cover:

Pencil plan background

3D Model

I used a picture I took of a Bollard then modelled it in maya and then decided to paint the uv textures on mudbox instead of using a stencil.

Adaptation

I had a lot of technical difficulties with this project. Anyway after attempt number 9 it worked. I think it could have been better timed.

So I started a new tiny A5 sketchbook last week

Final ident

Ident test

I watched many many many sky arts tv idents. I like how the name appears in creative ways. So I took this idea and played around with how ink reacts with wax. 

Ink is hard to control, lesson learnt. How to control it? Blowing through straws.

Logo test. (health and safety warning: if you ever want to do this, make sure you have a very good lung capacity. I do not and my brain hurt.)

Lip sync test 2

Updated animatic with backgrounds and designs dropped in

Lip sync face

Alan sent me the charecter design coloured. I cut the head off, cut the flappy pieces up, then added the mouths in underneath.

coloured background

sea sea sea sea background background background

So tonight/early hours of this morning I have been working on the background for the first shots.

This is what I have so far got:

Basically so far I have mapped out the shadows and highlights. I now need to colour it and then make it long so that we can have a camera movement. I then can hand it over to Callum and he can get on with his animating. Then onto the next two backgrounds, sorting out the lip sync and finally animating

Big life drawing dump semester 2: all drawings are 10sec,30sec and 10 min