Post Crit meeting

We met up today to watch the film and discuss what needed to be changed for the final version.

1. Render all scenes with proper shadows.
2. Slides need to be re done
3. S04 – needs to be lighter
4. SO6 – the lamppost needs to be rendered as part of the pavement.
5. SO7 – Floating wheel needs to be rectified.

Twist the body more to make to facing the building in shot

6. S08 needs to be re rendered
7. S10 the back wheel are off the floor
8. S11 man goes behind the bench and takes a picture – this needs to be animated in s10 and s11.
9. FACES and pencil shading on all frames

Nick needs the final animations off dan and matt for scene S07 and S10 - then he can render them

Maya Fun

After looking again at the fence in the scenes I decided to model in the bars of the fence as they did just look too flat, and with everything else looking right I decided to change it.
The outcome is a lot better

Question is why am I still being so picky at this stage, I don’t really know but there’s something inside me that won’t let me settle for mediocrity, good in some respects but I don’t think everyone appreciates it.

I also got the camera model from Matt to scribble on the textures, after talking with nick yesterday I also smoothed/rounded the edges off a little to make the outline less harsh.

I was also keen to do some tests with the model so I began to move it around and I started to notice things that defiantly had not happened before.

Like this flap of skin above the shoulder

and this strange cavity in the shoulder

And well… the model defiantly didn’t do this before.

.......................Why?...

I’m meeting up with Nick tomorrow to sort everything out, Matt fixed the cavity and I got rid of that flap of skin on his shoulder but there are still some other issues that we have to resolve before we can start animating.

Lighting

Nick sent me these lighting tests today, Its looking really good. I cant wait to see the final product now.

Heres a De-saturated version I did of it.

Back in Newport

I came back from Leeds today so we could have a meeting and work on the model together.
We really need to get the model done soon or we may end up in trouble.

send meeeeeeeeeeee

Today I panicked, not at all productive but still.....
ahhhhhhhhhhh

This is the Model so far.....
Its looking good. Needs some refinment but nick is getting there with the rigging.