During the lectures I learnt a lot about staging and using cameras well to give more life to the scene, using unusual camera angles creatively instead of just static camera angles. I learnt how to animation cameras in Maya and will be using this for the cinematic.
Our team is on track to complete all 4 animations and when we return we can work on the cinematic, we each gave each other feedback on animations and all helped each other get the best out of everyone. I am happy with the work everyone has put in and confident we can produce something good at the end.
For weeks 7 and 8 our team are wrapping up our 4 separate animations, it was important for us to at least block out the animations before we took a 3 week break over Easter so see we are all on the same page. I have now completed the run with some possible tweaks on the timing that I may need to go back to over Easter. I have now blocked out the jumping over the obstacle animation and found a very cool rock material to add to the obstacle. And I have blocked out the killing animation with my character will stab the wounded enemy in the back. Now my team members have been what direction I am going in, over Easter I will polish these ready for the cinematic.
Monday, 8 April 2013
Reflection of week 5-6
This week during one of the lectures a guest came in and introduced the class to Motion Builder, it was quite difficult to get my head around it all at first, and it seems like a good tool to import a character in and get some really cool realistic motions out of it.
During week 6 our team presented our animation blogs to the class showing our current progress, things went well and feedback was great, I have been told to work on my timings and to smooth out my animation a little more. While evidencing all my research.
During the team meeting we discussed what we would do about the situation with one of our team members (Tom) who hadn't turned up to lessons often, we believe he has left the course and now are focusing on just the three of us left and designing the cinematic around him. The good thing about this is his part of the cinematic is added on really at the end to make it work a bit better adding a bit more story to it, but the current cinematic stands and works how it is.
At this point I have completed my breath idle animation and blocked out my run animation using online reference to help me define the key poses within the animation.
During week 6 our team presented our animation blogs to the class showing our current progress, things went well and feedback was great, I have been told to work on my timings and to smooth out my animation a little more. While evidencing all my research.
During the team meeting we discussed what we would do about the situation with one of our team members (Tom) who hadn't turned up to lessons often, we believe he has left the course and now are focusing on just the three of us left and designing the cinematic around him. The good thing about this is his part of the cinematic is added on really at the end to make it work a bit better adding a bit more story to it, but the current cinematic stands and works how it is.
At this point I have completed my breath idle animation and blocked out my run animation using online reference to help me define the key poses within the animation.
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