Earlier this week we got our third mandatory assignment. It is only a week long assignment were we will film our reference, draw out the key/extreme/breakdown poses and animate. The goal was to learn more about animation and planning. What are the terms block, rough and clean in animation? Knowledge like that were needed in this project. What we need in our animation is two emotions and we are to show these two in minimum 7sec and maximum 10sec. I had to chose the 10sec lenght with 250 frames (25fps). I chose to animate someone receiving a phone call from someone they haven't heard from in a while. Our main is happy as of this point. The caller tells our main person some bad news and our main gets angry and gets up from his chair and throws the phone to a wall. The phone lands on the floor and our main gets down to smashing the phone by stomping his right foot. Here you see a classmate of mine doing the acting for me. I didn't wanted to do it myself as I wanted someone else's reaction. I told him what he 's supposed to do and he did it pretty well. Here you see all of my thumbnail drawings. The drawings are not great and understanding as I drew quite fast, but I focused on the when things happened and noted the frame number. I then just used my video reference and went back and forth from max to quicktime. I posed the character just like in the video. And as you can see I put an X over frame 266. This was because I didn't needed that pose. And another thing you may see is that I have over 250 frames in my drawings. 258 is over the limit so I had to shorten all the frames between frame 0 and 43 to make it exactly 250 frames (10sec). In the first picture you see the character LowMax. We could either chose character studio or LowMax. I am not that keen about character studio so I chose the funny looking character. I tried to make it look like the reference, but it was hard to see the diffrences when I go back and forth max to quicktime. It's close enough. This one is close to the end. This one like some other poses was hard because I couldn't see his face. So I had to guess. Maybe I should add hair to the character?
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I am putting Killua on hold for now. At the moment he looks kinda freaky, but will eventually look like the real deal. I am thinking about starting another project. A boat or interior. Maybe a motorcycle, I haven't decided on that matter yet. I need to fix the eyes and give the guy some hair to make him start looking like the real Killua, but all that will be fixed untill next time I touch this project again.
Here are the two remaining drawings plus a drawing of various designs. The first one is a 3/4 perspective drawing and the second one is a drawing containing a pose in color of course. The pose is a jump Charlie Chaplin used to do. Kicking his heels in the air. I consider this a happy pose. First I was going to make something cute. That's why I have drawn bunnies. But in the process I was scared of the thought of not making it cute enough. So I jumped right to my second idea that involved a top hat and a cane. And then I wanted to make a scarecrow, but no. We were asked to make it simple,
I'm as good as done with oblig2. Having a whole day left to do some tweaking feels good (deadline 2.oct.), but this is no time to rest. I still have a little more to be done. Like drawing the two last drawings I am required to have (3/4 perspective and pose in color) and write a short report for each projects. Here it is, the final image (or at least I think it is). With my logo in the right corner. Feel free to comment whatever that
Yesterday I rigged and skinned my entire character. I hate skinning more than anything, but I did learn a few things that I didn't know before. I used character studio as the skeleton of my character. I had to re-size a few bones to fit my characters proportions. The coat was special to skin. I had to make new "bones" just for the end-part of the coat so I could control how it moves. Today I tweaked the skinning of my character. There where a few vital vertexes that needed to be fixed. As of the rest of the day I spent time thinking about how my scene would look like. I started working on the items right away when I found out what kind of a scene I wanted for my character. The scene is on a table with sewing items like pin and thread, needle pillow and candle stand. Remember this all takes place at the start of 1920's so it had to look kinda old. Tomorrow I will finish up my project. Or rather I will try to be finished. When I'm done I have to jump right back to Oblig1 and draw the two remaining drawings. One of them needs to be in a 3/4 perspective view and the other is a drawing where my character is in a pose that describes him. The last one requires color.
Character profile: Story: My character is a Voodoo doll. Made by an African slave who wanted to torture his master. He made the doll special. Not looking like other voodoo dolls. All of it's clothes and accessories are based on the person he wanted to punish. As he was to bless the doll by doing a ritual he accidentally gave life to the doll. Shortly after he became ill and died. The doll was then left alone to live a life on his own. It's a tough life for something so small and unusual.
Now you know about as much about my character as I do. I hope you like my character.
This is what I have after two days work on him. I started on Thursday when I decided which and what character I wanted to make. I didn't work on Friday at all and the school wasn't open on the weekends so I couldn't work on him, but I did work on his background story this weekend. (Will post about his background later calling it "Oblig1 update"). I have spent my Monday by modeling and texture partly of him. All I need in the modeling part is just to add some details around his vest, sleeves and coat. Details like buttons. I have been texturing in 3ds max 2010 all day. I found out that I don't have to unwrap as my character is not suppose to have such fine texture work. Mostly I use what's in max's material editor like marble, noise, checker and tweaked them to my liking. If you look closer on the last two images you will see that the eyes are different. I am not sure which one to choose. In the first one he has teddy bear eyes and in the second picture he has pure black eyes. I will have this decided by tomorrow.
Schedule: Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday - Go over some textures. - Rigg and skinning - Pose - Write his background story/profile and post it here on my blog. Friday is the last day and the day we are going to send in our work before we take our week long vacation. Just wished I'd start before Thursday last week, but that's in the process of finding out what your going to make. I just had to use three of the two weeks we are given to be sure of what I'm going to make. I have been working like a madman lately as I take this project seriously. This is what I have after a days work. Everything here is modeled from boxes except the top hat, that's a cylinder. Now I need to make the eye sockets, eye, mouth, stitches around the mouth, and cane. Then after that I will start texturing everything. That is what I fear the most so I hope I will improve.
When I'm done texturing I will go right to rigging and skinning. And while I'm texturing I will think of a pose for my character. It needs to be a pose which represents my characters personality. So I've started on our second assignment where I will make my character from the first assignment. I am not entirely done with the first assignments, but I will go back and finish the two drawings I have left. I just need to figure out what pose I should put him in and what pose that describes him the best. I choose to make my character out of boxes since that is what I do best. I've only just begun to make my character and I have this so far. I'm just worried about texturing my character as I'm not as skilled in texturing as I should be by now.
Oblig1 is a mandatory assignment at Noroff. As our first assignment we must draw our own character as simple as possible. The drawing you see below is what I came up with. I was captured with the idea of having a character with a top hat and a cane. I had to have both on the character I am going to make. As of the color department I am not sure. I am in the process of choosing the colors in photoshop. I am currently missing a drawing of the character in perspective view. I will draw that as soon as possible and I might draw the arms stretched out so the character would be in a T-pose.
Follow me through the process as I venture through the two weeks we are given. From the beginning to the end (2okt.) |