Animation : The New Perspective

Here is the latest camera setting and some extra shot for my final animation. It's time to finish all the animation and start to clean up my 2D animation. ...

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I am working on my camera movement with Sean the past few days. This is my rough animation and I need to tidy up a little bit of my story with some extra shot. Between the establishing shot and the time lapse shot, I've forgot to put one shot to give an idea of the story. I'll update soon with the new Pre...

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After talk with Phill last Monday, I try to render out my character in Master Beauty layer. So right now, I will render the main character in separate layer while the sub characters and asset in one layer. Thanks to Katherine, I render an AO passes to have this second image of my character without any toon shader applied to them and it...

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This is the first previs for my animation. The next step that I'll need to complete is the walk cycle for main character and sub character. ...

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Today I finished my character's blend shape using Maya and Mud box. My character have a very simple face expression and do not have any lip sync. So I made several controller for the eye brow and eyes to show an expression according to the storyboard that I have. It's take me a while to make this blend shape and thanks to Katherine...

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So, I've focus a  lot on my 2-D painting and animation and today I just read and watch all the tutorial on internet on how to use the toon shader. I've watch some tutorial that quite easy to understand and experiment with my character that I've already textured.  Basically, I just use the basic light shading for this character with the help of...

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Right now, I have finish four background for my final animation and need to refine on the style I'm gonna used. I'm been thinking to keep the line art or just remove it. When I put the line art it give a feel of comic kind of style but I'll experiment on rendering part which one can fit together with my 3-D characters....

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I've schedule all my painting to be done at least by the end of this month. I started with the close up painting that take roll in several shot in the center of Dundee. I still thinking either to use the real name and place in Dundee or change a little bit because I combine with different scenery of mountain in the background....

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We start to have our own schedule for production in google spread sheet. It help everyone to see each timeline and didn't clash with others schedule when it come to render. It also help if we know when will we can help each others on their own projects. So, basically this is my production pipeline and I'm still follow the timeline for my...

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TOY SCANDAL - 'Hunny Bunny Stole My Money'. Going Live group project with Axis Animation, Glasgow. 16 May 2016 This is the final animation from our Going Live group project that we already presented to Axis Animation last Monday. I was satisfied with the final output and very proud to have a very talented and good teammate in this project. ...

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We finally walk to the end together for our assignment in Going Live Project. We finish everything left to be compose and edit a little bit in the morning and in the afternoon we sit together in edit suite. Even I just sit and watch others to do the editing, it was fun to learn and working with our group member. Everyone try...

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4/5/2016 After meeting on Wednesday with Phillip Vaughan and our team member, I update with the latest credit roll for Going Live project. After a discussion with our team member, they agreed to stick with the scrolling panel for the end credit. They also like it have some clue about what kind of show we are referring to. So, I create something similar...

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We start on Monday to compose the files that already come out from the render farm. We try to achieve all the aspect that Matt Cameron had teach us on Friday. But for the moving image we need to change a little bit of the node and try again another node to match with the animation. We use at least 5 to 6...

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Update on Going Live project, this is the end credit so far that I have done today. I try to refer from the end credit for the Jeremy Kyle show and create a border that look similar to it. I also change on how the name of our group member appear from scrolling above into move in and out from the right screen....

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We had a class on Friday with our invitation speaker, Matt Cameron. He specialize on compositing and visual effect who work at London. He also shared his knowledge on his work using Nuke and show us some of his impressive artwork. We start in the morning with some ice breaking talk when he told us his journey after graduate from DJCAD. It's start...

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Update on Going Live project, this is the end credit so far that I have done today. I use Adobe Photoshop to create the background using symmetry triangle and use several layer for gradient, curve and colour effect. I create a multiple layer for the text before I add a several layer effect for the name and try to imitate the Jeremy Kyle...

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ANIMATION CAMPAIGN THAT EDUCATE ADULTS AND HELP THEM CONVEY METAPHORS TO CHILDREN The idea of the ‘Banish the Bedroom Tax Monster Campaign’ came after a long process. It begin with discussion and meeting other team members to talk about who is the target audience and what they want to achieve. They start with a board meeting and brainstorm about the problem and they...

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This weekend I focus on my individual animation project. For several week we focus on our group project and I only done my storyboard and character design. We are now in the stage of rendering and need to change a little bit on animation and texture. It's a little bit tight in the schedule but I believed we are capable to help each...

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