The end is nigh

The film now is nearly fully cut togeather with all the sound added. Samir has been working on rendering it all out and cuting it togeather. Alltogeather creating this short film has been a huge learning curve for me. I now know how much hard work is involved and how important the rest of your team is. I supose i could have worked harder at certian times of this project. but now i know just how much is involved. Id like to say thankyou to the rest of my group and now i still have lots to learn so i will continue with that.

More animating

Here are two other animations that i have done which i forgot to upload to this blog.

The rendered look

Samir luke and rey have been doing an amazing job on getting to look of the film right while i have been doing my bits. It really looks now like a final film. Coming together. Well done the lads!

Credits

Luke and samir have been working on some pictures for the credits. He sent me this one he done and asked me if it was ok and if i could do anything with it. The only thing i could think of was to change the shape of it slightly to look more like a chick and to make the colour pink!

Broom shot

Here is another animation that i have done. Its simply the chick thursting a broom down his throught so that he can lay an egg. Enjoy

Cuts!!

The other members of the group have decided that in order to introduce the main character quicker so that people can empahtise with him, they want to cut the farmer out of the film altogeather. I can see what they are saying and it does make sence. But that means that all the hard work i put into animating that crappy farmer rigg was all in vain and will go to waist :(
Oh well the film will be better for it anyway

More animating

I am still carrying on with some animation shots. The one that i have just done is the vetrain chicken laying eggs. We wanted her to look a bit crazy like laying eggs for her is a war zone. so i have animated her laying them rapid fire to add to this extreem character.

Heres how it looks from the back side:

Promo Research

I have been looking breifly at what the costs of promotional merchandizing would be for this short film when it comes to the degree show. I would like to get the film put on propper printed DVDs and possably make some T-shirts to ware at the degree show. Here is some of the things i have found.

This screen grab shows how mush printing 100 DVDs would be with a picture that we could make from the movie. It turns out its 195pounds for 100.

And this is about the cozt of printing T-shirts

Chicken walk

Now that the farmer intro sceens are done its finaly time to start animating the main character. My first attempt at this is shocking. Again becasue the chick uses the same style rigg its not great to animate with and every time i key the left arm they are deleted when moved. Here is my first ugly attempt...

I have decided to start the whole animation all over again to get it looking better. I have now figured out how to use the rigg a bit better, espeicaly with the roleing of the hips. When i tried to do it on the farmer rigg it always moved the whole upper body instead of just the hips. But now i have worked out the controler and it works much better. Here is my second attempt. All it needs now is secondary animation which will be done by luke.

Meeting with dan

We have just had a meeting with dan as he wanted to check our progress so far. He seemed to think that we were very far behind like most other groups and wondered what kind of tutorage we had been getting in the previous two terms. The meeting was extreemly benifishal because he really made us see how much work we sitll had to do. He told us to plan out exactly what we still had to animate so that we could see how much was left and manage our time better for compositing.

So after this meeting i went away and typed up every shot that was in the film and how long we should idealy spend animating them. Here is the word doc that i made.