The Beginning of the End

Hey everyone,

So this week at tafe was the 'beginning of the end' ~

What I mean by that is, i've started to finish the final assignments of this term =P
~ yay ~

there is still lots to do, but i'm a lot closer than before.

But before that ~ We are having an EXPO soon ~ and i made the Facebook page for it, so go take a look, and perhaps have a look through the student gallery ~

the link : www.facebook.com/Ethereal2013

Going back to assignments ~

This week i finished one of anthony's assignments ~
the rigging and skinning assignment ~ it's my first time rigging and skinning in maya so i was pretty happy with the results ~

This photo is to show the way the arms bend without horrible disfiguration

This is to show you all the controls on the rig (the foot can be IK and FK) 

The way the back bends

How the leg bends and moves without disfiguration

and what the entire rig set up looks like 

The other thing i did lots of work on this week is the Green screening we did at ABC with the film students. 

I've done an Style Guide - 

and a very very rough animatic in Nuke X -

I also started building the teleportation machine in 3D, but i didn't take any screen shots of it. 

Lastly, I got some audio examples from the sound students that are doing the audio for my short story ~ i'm so excited, it's finally coming together slowly haha =P 

My goal is to have all modelling, texturing and lighting done by the end of these holidays coming. 

anyways, 

Thats all for now, 

Until next time ~ 

Ariane

Tafe catch up ~

So it's now been two weeks since i went for work experience and i've been catching up with assignments and continuing others ~ so i thought i'd just do a general blog update today of everything thats been going on over the last two weeks.

So i'll apologise now, because this is going to be a long blog ~ but it will have TONS of photos and a few films ~ so it shouldn't be too bad =P

So at the start of last week, I broke apart the first frame of the film student's storyboard so that we can start working on the animatic ~
and although you can't see the layers in this you'll just have to take my word for it ~

The other thing that happened at the start of last week ~ i finished my pre-vis for my short story ~ I even added a quick title/end credits sequence at the end to get a sense of how long the entire thing will be. 

I've sent it off to the sound students and hopefully i'll have a music sample sometime soon 

Going onto Anthony's section of assignments ~ 

This week i finished the constraints assignment, 

although it ended up in a rather poor condition, because after the 4th time re-starting the assignment and STILL running into gimble ~ i gave up hope hahaha 

Some screen shots -> 

In more exciting news ~ i finally finished re-rendering my library~! yay =D ~!

I also built a magician's room yesterday ~ because we are doing an assignment for Anthony where we have a robot character who attempts to exchange a broken light glob ~ So i thought, why not have a magician's robot (cause as an animator ~ i can)
I will also be adding a hat stand with the wizard's hat on it ~

Also in one of Anthony's classes ~ i've finished rigging ~ more or less xD haha
I just have to ask him how to constrain the foot ~ then i can start learning how to skin =P

Here i'm showing how my thumb (and other two fingers) have set driven keys

for curling and stretch for both knuckles as well as spread.

In this one I'm just showing how my main hand-control's set driven keys

are fist and spread ~ so you don't have to do each finger individually.

Also, if you can recall, a while ago we did some green screening at ABC ~ the film students have finally sent us the footage and we can start green screening and adding CGI ~ I've done a quick storyboard so far ->

the teleport machine opens both vertically and horizontally ~ and will be the only 3D element in the scene. 

and Lastly (in terms of tafe and study) ~ i've been working on the expo ~ 

In these last two weeks i've designed a few logo's ->

and collected 3 'best pieces' from students in an attempt to make a gallery page for the expo webpage. 

And as the very very last thing ~ 

I don't know if you guys remember, but at the end of last year i was lucky enough to get work experience working for a guy named Mauricio Alpizar. 

He's a fashion designer and he wanted me to make a 'fashion look book' for his cloths that were being displayed in the New York Fashion week. 

Here's the video i did last year: 

And now he's come back asking for more work ~ very very exciting but also slightly stressful as he need everything done at the same time as all our assignments are due ~ but thats ok, ill manage ~ even if it means a few nights without sleep =P 

Anyways, until next time everyone ~ 

~ Ariane