Week 8: Textures, Reference, Scenes, Trello

Textures 

This was from around week 5, were I went back over one of Lily's concept works and did my own focusing on texturing which helped with the hippo and assets.

Rocks

Waterfall 

Video Reference

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR1rG2A6V5MSAHG0DYY5Hf55STx6cAnXR

Lily acted the hippo, Sara the boy and I was using the camera as the only one trained in it.
We took over the light box room for an hour or so as it had a projector which we showed the animatic onto and also a full scale mirror.

We will now be using it as reference ^^

Putting it all together 

Using Sara's animatic I deleted the boy and hippo from the file and concentrated on getting all of the scene scaled correctly and textured using both Lilys and my textures and also changing the assets so that they had the correct uv mapping. Making sure the assets are on different layers so it's easier to navigate. This file was then imported into the original animatic scene. 

This file named "Animate on me" doesn't have the textures yet but will have them added later. Callums initiative  managed to get the rig to work and the hippo to be able to be scaled when that was added. And the key frames from Sara's animatic fit to correct times. 

Planning

Week 6-8

Blocking didn't happen on time because 

- animatic time was incorrect and needed to be changed 

- We had a problem scaling the assets to the animatic 

- We had a problem with adding the rig to the hippo 

- Paint weighting and rigging the hippo had unexpected problems 

- We were a week behind on assets and caught up on those 

But! All of these are now sorted and over the next week we will be focusing purely on the animation. I've split the work so everyone is doing 50% of one character and we all know what section we are doing. Using the new pri vis we will be using the same file and making sure the key frames stay relatively the same so when everything is put together it will all work.

Week 9
So the aim is to get all the blocking done, the concentrate on lighting and polishing next week and then to start putting it all together in premier. All in all we are back on task, just will have less time to polish it all off.


I've also moved all the needed files into there own section as it was becoming unorganized in looking under done. So everything is easy to find and work from.