The Big Finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqWYb-xLMis

update

There still a few tweeks to be made to tidy up the animation and sound.

Business Card

The Business Card Design Changes Once Agian.

Sound Synced Update

This is every close to the final clean ups for sound and animation.

sound and animation clean up updates

an updated play blast with synced sound. still some camera alterations to be made.

Business Card Tweeked

Sound test previse

started putting together and building on the sounds of the animation

Business Card and Logo Idea

Are the bubbles a step to far I wonder




The last card is my chosen design. Some modifications may still be made.

Working With Sound

I have started to put the sound track together, out of the jobs left to do I think this will take the longest. many of the sounds in this prelimunary test are very wrong at this stage, but they are a start. The backing music is the sort of melody that I am looking for but am still currently have trouble finding the right track. this one is the best so far but is still very low quality.

Depth of Field testing

Still a few niggly glitches to conqure but everything is on track.

Solove one problem to find another

After spending the majority of today reanimating my camera to run smoother along the time line I did a pre-vis render which showed the camera flow and adjustments made there, however that play blast does not the depth of field for the camera as it travelers past the events, so I produced another full render of the sequence in order to test this. In recreating the camera movements, the depth of field for the majority of the animation is completely wrong. I will now need to spend the next day or so correctly these flaws.

timeline clean up

While cleaning up the animation for the time line scene I have remade the water splashes and started from scratch with the camera movements and Depth of Field. There is still come tideing to be done before I am ready to render.

cannons clean up

cleaning up animations

I have gone another step further to tidy up the animation in the silhoutte scene and fix any problems i was having before. This is the lastest version (without its firy background)to check through the pace of the camera and characters. The camera is still a little to fast or slow in some places however the characters are moving alot better. The compression of this version seems to squash the scene out of its intended ratio which i will check and fix for the next post.

Cleaning Up Animations

I have been going through the process over the weekend of cleaning up the animation within the silhouette scenes. There is still some work to be done, but here is the latest play blast pre-vise.

Full length test

A full length animation test, before sound (next task) to check and list all refinements needed before the final renders. The key point to this test was to make sure that the two scenes come together appropriately. from a first glance the style works however the colours in the second scene are very dramtic in contrast to the more subtle desaturated colours in the first, eventhrough they do have a desaturation placed apon them. These desat levels need to be played with an pushed further. From this animation I will next add the sound to the animation before listing all the alterations and refinements needed in the animation.

Lighting

I have spent today playing with the lighting so that the lights turn on and off dependng on the camera position, in atempt to draw the audences attention to the specific events as the camera travels through them.

Stylizing tests

65% desaturation, with graphic pen soft light over crumpled paper textures.

Transition and Matching styles test

The frame rate / animation needs to be slowed in these examples however they are test for style.

Stylizing Timelines tests

depth of field test at 70% desaturation with graphic pen soft light.




depth of feild test at 100% desaturation with graphic pen sift light.

Depth of Field and Stylizing Test

Full opening clip


Full opening Cip in Graphic Pen

Depth of Field and Stylizing Test

Along side the tests I have been carring out to style the time line sequence I have also been playing with the depth of field in the camera settings to give the piece a better sense of distance. To test the depth of field I have need to spend some time on short render sequences to make sure that the DOF changes effectivly which has eatten into the estimated time frame for this stage in the production. However this has not caused me to fall behind as I have managed to work on other portfolio bits while waiting.
















Depth Of Field


Depth of Field with Graphic Pen filter