Animation Time!

         I apologize for posting a little late, but here you go! This week I've completed more animation for all of you guys to enjoy (and also critique). I spent the majority of my time figuring out how the scenes between the astronaut and the little alien will play out when they meet for the first time.

        This by far was the best scene to animate. The timing, reaction, and movement between the two characters will be key. I figured that animating in general is always fun because you can always try out different reactions and movements with the characters. The only downside is that it can take a long time before you decide on the final product. I'll post the link to that scene later tonight (once vimeo is done encoding) for all of you to enjoy! I'm still tweaking it, so I'd really appreciate the input.

1 Month to Picture Lock

Just trying to motivate everyone. Actually, more like 1 month and 10 days. Well for this week I animated some more shots and blocked everything out. I should be done with my rough animation before spring break, and then go ahead and refine everything by the time picture lock rolls around. It's coming down to the wire, but I should be able to have everything finished by then.

Here is a little sample:

And just though I'd throw in another sample of my planet surface. I fixed up the sky and the rocks a bit more, but I'm still having issues with the ground. Weird shadows seem to form when there's a bump map applied to it. I'll have faculty take a look this week.

It's All Animation From Here

It's pretty much all animation from here! So I've finished texturing my backgrounds. Now I just have to finish my characters. I met with Maks on Thursday to clean up some skinning issues and with Eric Hanson on Monday to go over the texturing. In the meantime, I'm wrapping up on my opening and most difficult shot, when the astronaut looks into the food can onboard the spaceship. Here's a sample!



I've fallen relatively behind in terms of my schedule, mostly due to fixing a few skinning and texturing problems. But I am planning to catch up with everything by this President's Day weekend.

So Long Texturing!

Hi guys!

So this week I wrapped up on all of my texturing. I'm just finishing up on the food can he tries shaking the leftovers out of when he's on the spaceship. What do you guys think?

In other news, I met with my composer last week and went more into detail on how the music will sound. He should have the first pass of music completed by Wednesday. Maks was also nice enough to meet with me more than a couple times this week to clean up some skinning issues.

I'm still on track with animation. Expect some goodies within the next week!