Lighting for the Bee Animation

Final Environment For Daryl's Group

Chris- Junk Pile

Changes in modelling for Daryl's project

For the last final stages of Daryl's project I was asked to re-size the chair which has been done and also to add a step ladder for the Prof to walk up to match the height of Mort's chair. The image below is the design and texture for the ladder but the texture might change into a brown Lambert to make the model look 2D. This image shows the new chair with the step ladder in position.

The group decided that the book case needed to be duplicated due to the background looking empty, therefore Simon made a duplication of the bookshelf and I then changed the colour of the shelf along with making the objects on both shelf different so there not completely the same.

Finished Bee Animation

Idea's of moving flowers

When I changed the chair to fit the character and scene, Daryl then asked if I could put a rig in the chair so when the character Mort gets put on it, the chair will move backwards and forward. To add more comedy. This is a quick play blast of a practise shot:
After doing the simple design and model for our chair, me, Daryl and Simon spoke about the chair and agreed that the chair I did first time round looked like a dentist chair and I should incorporate my old chair with the new one and I can up with these new designs:

During the third term we realised the chair we originally had was to small for the animated chair and needed to be bigger. Due to the chair looking mis-shaped and out of place, the group decided that the chair needs to be re-do. This is a much simpler design and we are able to make the chair wider or bigger without the shape looking awkward.

I have been contributing in Daryl group by colouring in the animated frames and put them into Flash, where they have been put in order and timed out as finished animated pieces.

Cat Animation

I designed a 2D animation cat that was skinny so that you could see the movement in the shoulders and legs when the cat walks. These are the three improved animation of the cat walk cycle and the jump.

The first animation is of the cat walking and then jumping into the air:

The second Animation is the cat walking slow and then jumping into the air and turning into a bird:

The third animation is the same as the one above but a quicker walk. I think the third animation is the best out of the three because the cat walks smoothly and then goes into a fat jump and then become a bird:

Practice of a 2D cat walking; Hand drawn by me and made in Premiere Pro. I think it needs some more work but it's getting there. More animation at the end needs to be added.



These are the drawn walk cycles that I put together in Premiere Pro and made the cat cycle into a small animation clip:

Changes in Sal Project

Sal's Group has changed the idea of there story production. We were gonna have 3D models made in Maya and then have the environment done in a program called View, this was to make the environment realistic. But due to come problems our group is now shorter and have decided to do the whole film in 2D along with my 3D secondary animation models. The film is now a moving image piece. Chris, Sal and Bart have done some practice animatics to show what our new film would look like.
From the animatic the group asked me to finish animating the butterfly and bee, flying in different directions and then add them into the backgrounds on after effects, also they asked if I could animate in 2D a cat walking and jumping into the air. From the animatic you can see what the Sal and Chris wants the cat to do. I might be also animating the drawn birds I have done.



My list from Chris and Sal:

• Animate Bee


• Animate Butterfly


• Animate 2D cat


• Draw different flowers from a front view


• Draw individual petals


• Draw some cat positions


• Draw birds in different positions

Below are some designs I have done so far from my list:

I want to colour in the birds and add a fur effect on them to make the 2D birds look real. I found the 3D bird I modelled in Maya really hard to texture but because of the change in the design of the film the bird will now be 2D, which I think will be easier for me because I am a strong drawer. By Monday I will have the bee and butterfly animated and then I just have to finish off the cat animation.

Daryl asked the group if they could contribute into colouring in the 2D frames and then put them in Flash to key the animated frames.

For this we used illustrator and live traced the frames with one colour logo. Then we copied the frames into Flash, with the PAL setting of 25 frames a second and 720 by 576.

The three short animated clips below are the ones I have done for the group, but I will also be doing more of these frames when Al and James have finished there 2D animation. I had to tidy the pictures with rubber so that the images looked crisp and not rough round the edges.